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Programme:
Aleksandra Bajde: New piece for Voice, Piano and iPhone*
Elisabeth Harnik: Clear the air for Piano and Speakers
Matija Krečič: New piece for Violin*
Nejc Kuhar: New piece for Guitar*
Lojze Lebič: Duettino for Clarinet and Guitar
Uroš Rojko: Monologue of a Fallen Angel – Improvisation for “half-clarinet” solo

* premiere performance

Over the course of its many decades of activity, the Society of Slovene Composers has become one of the key factors helping to shape Slovenia’s musical life, cultural policy and national musical identity. It has established solid foundations for the provision of support to Slovene artists and the promotion of their works. It realises its mission to help ensure the quality and prestige of Slovene music at home and abroad not only through music publishing, but also through original concert activities. One of the most recognisable pillars of the Society’s concert activities is the chamber music cycle Concert Atelier, which has been a nexus of contemporary musical creativity and interpretation for almost six decades. The cycle’s distinctive thematic focus is a blend of new Slovene works and contemporary works from Slovenia and abroad.
One of the most notable elements of the third concert in the upcoming festival of Slovene music is the presence of performers who are also the composers of the new works being performed. With the exception of Lojze Lebič, an eminent figure in Slovene music who, by drawing on the heritage of past cultures while simultaneously embracing European avant-garde tendencies, has developed his own musical poetics spanning the archetypal, the traditional and the transcendental, all the musicians in the programme will appear in the dual role of composers and performers.
The vocal part in her new work for voice, piano and iPhone will be performed by the Vienna-based Slovene composer Aleksandra Bajde, an indefatigable explorer of the endless possibilities of sound, in constantly evolving connections with other artistic forms and genres. Multilayeredness, which blurs genre boundaries through the interplay of improvisation and interdisciplinarity, is a distinctive feature of the work of the Austrian pianist and composer Elisabeth Harnik, active in the electro-acoustic world, whose unique compositional techniques push the standard limitations of the piano.
Skilfully steering a course among various musical genres, seasoned violinist and composer Matija Krečič has developed his own musical language that eludes stylistic definition. Here he performs a new work for solo violin. Internationally acclaimed guitarist Nejc Kuhar, who also realises his musical ideas through his own highly personal compositions, likewise presents a new solo work. The winner of several prestigious prizes, Kuhar will also be one of the performers of Lojze Lebič’s witty and imaginative Duettino  (2007), in which the composer demonstrates his remarkable creativity and his mastery of avant-garde instrumental techniques. The work was actually written for Lebič’s fellow composer, the clarinettist Uroš Rojko, another of the most prominent ambassadors of Slovene music who has developed, through original and deeply thought-out compositions, a unique musical syntax in which he is constantly redefining his relationship with tradition or, in his own way, denying it. So it is in Monologue of a Fallen Angel  (2006), a piece created through improvisation that explores new challenges in sound.

The pre-concert talk at 7.00 pm will be moderated by Luka Juhart.