Workshop

A one-day workshop for music school students includes two individual classes, a chamber music class, participation in the final concert, free attendance of Festival EMONA concerts, lunch at The Conservatory of Music and Ballet Ljubljana.

Workshops will be run by Slovenian conservatory and music school teachers.

Pre-formed music school ensembles are welcome as well.

Workshop duration: 9.00 - 18.00.

21.11.2015: recorder

22.11.2015: flute, oboe, clarinet, saxophone

Price: 45€.

Price for the competitors: 30€.

 

Tutors:

Rok Volk, saxophone

Rok Volk, spec. prof., mag. art., he graduated with honors (Summa cum Laude) at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana, where he also completed postgraduate specialization in the class of reg. univ. prof. Matjaž Drevenšek. For his achievements he received Prešernova prize of Academy of music Ljubljana. He spent two years perfecting in Paris (Jean Yves Fourmeau and Philippe Portejoie – graduated Premier Prix). He also successfully finished master’s degree at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts in Vienna in the class of reg. prof. Oto Vrhovnik. Rok Volk is a winner of many national and international competitions. He cooperates with Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra, RTV Slovenia, SNG Maribor, Sommerfilharmonie Leoben (AUT), Festival Lent, Dubrovnik festival (CRO), Šibenik festival (CRO), Zagreb saxophone quartett, saxophone orchestras from Paris and Versailles conservatories, Imago Sloveniae, Jeunesses musicales Ljubljana, Jeunesses musicales Slovenia. He plays in saxophone orchestra S.O.S, saxophone quartet Konus and Oto Vrhovnik saxophone orchestra. He is a jury member in international and national competitions (Internet competition, Saksistra, TEMSIG, Serbian national competition) and lecturer in international seminars and summer schols (Saksistra, Saxophone power). He is professor of saxophone at the Music School Gornja Radgona.

 

 

Maja Lisac Barroso, saxophone

The Slovenian/Swiss saxophone player MAJA BARROSO LISAC began her studies for classical saxophone at the Music University in Vienna and got her Bachelor and Master Degrees at the University of Music in Basel in 2007. She is invited to give concerts in many European countries and masterclasses in Nova Gorica, Slovenia, at the Swiss Saxophone Days in Lucerne and Basel and at the Australasian Saxophone Conference in Sydney. Maja Barroso Lisac is playing solo, in duo with piano, with live-electronics and in ensembles for Contemporary Music. She is member of several groups: The Saxophone Quartet ZURE, the Tango group SAXISM with bandoneon player Marcelo Nisinman (former protegé of Astor Piazzolla) and the Ensemble Nucleus. Maja Barroso Lisac’s speciality is the making of quality musical arrangements for various saxophone formations.  Her arrangments are also played by world renowned soloists like Claude Delangle and Daniel Gauthier. Maja Barroso Lisac got prices and scholarships from the Friedl Wald-Stiftung, the Kanton Basel-Land and from Novartis. She was chosen for an one year residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, where she was working especially in the field of free improvisation as well as with composers. From 2010-2013, Maja Barroso Lisac is teaching at the University of Music in Basel/Switzerland as an assistant of prof. Marcus Weiss. Since 2010, she teaches classical saxophone to jazz students at the University Jazzcampus Basel and at the Music High School in Solothurn, Switzerland.

 

Alenka Goršič Ernst, flute

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Valerija Kamplet, flute

Valerija Kamplet, female flautist, completed the High School for Music and Ballet in Ljubljana in the Class of Professor Helena Poles. She successfully finished her studies in the Class of Professor Matej Zupan in the Academy for Music in Ljubljana. In Maribor she teaches the flute and chamber music at the Conservatory for Music and Ballet and at the Music and Ballet School of Anton Martin Slomšek in Maribor. She educated a number of brilliant young flautists, who received a number of awards and recognition awards at the state and International competitions, as solo players and as chamber musicians. Her students are presenting themselves with independent flautist recitals and performances all over Slovenia and are recording for the radio and the television. A student of hers in Maribor is also a brilliant young female flautist Dorotea Senica, who studies at the University Mozarteum in Salzburg.  She was a member of the commissions of regional and international competitions and she composed propositions for the state competition TEMSIG. She also helped with grading of high school graduation performances for the flute. She participated at the Committee of Reformation of School Curriculum for the Art High School for the flute.   She directs a children choir at the parish of »Mary Church Mother« in Maribor. In 2010 she received »Dr. Roman Klasinc« Document Award for her accomplishments in the educational field.

 

Robert Pirc, clarinet

He has graduated on the Musical Academy in Ljubljana, class of Professor Slavko Goričar. After the graduation he specialized at bass clarinet in class of Paolo De Gaspari. He was also a member of Clarinet quartet ClariFour, which performed at numerous successful concerts. However, he is dedicated to teaching in Glasbena šola Krško, his students are very successful at competitions, they achieve high awards. He is a member of Wind Band Krško and Slovenian Clarinet Choir. 

 

 

 

 

Borut Vatovec, clarinet

He graduated with distinction at Academy of Music Ljubljana (prof. Jože Kotar). As a student he became laureate of many competitions. 
Several times he recorded for the radio RTV Slovenia and Italian RAI.  As a soloist and as a member of chamber ensembles he has performed in Slovenia, Croatia,  Austria, Italy, Great Britain, Norway and The Netherlands.
 Former member of the Slovenian Police Orchestra (1997 – 2003), performs in duo together with guitarist Tanja Brecelj Vatovec, and he is a member of the clarinet quartet Alpe Adria Consort (music association Serenade Ensemble), as well as the Slovenian Orchestra of Clarinet. Between 2006 and 2010 he worked as a mentor at the »Arena International« summer music schools in Pula (Croatia). He works at Music School of Koper and Grammar School of Arts Koper.

 

Melina Todorovska, oboe

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Breda Hartman, oboe

 

 

 

 

 

Mateja Bajt, recorder

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Andreja Pernuš, recorder