Students are entitled to a free ticket for the concert, which they can collect upon presentation of a valid student ID at the Križanke Box Office. Each student can collect a maximum of one ticket.

Veronika Vanja, soprano and violin
Ana Rodić, piano (Serbia)

Mark Lev Krajnc, violin
Danijel Brecelj, klavir

Programme:
Christoph Willibald Gluck: “Che farò senza Euridice”, arija Orfeja iz opere Orfej in Evridika
Giacomo Puccini: “Si mi chiamano Mimì”, arija Mimì iz opere La bohème
Leonard Bernstein: I have a love in Tonight iz muzikala Zgodba z zahodne strani
Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 5 in F major, Op. 24, “Spring”
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Edvard Grieg: Allegro molto ed appassionato from Violin Sonata No. 3 in C minor, Op. 45
Henryk Wieniawski: Polonaise brillante No. 2 in A major, Op. 21
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Allegro moderato form Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35
Antonio Bazzini: La Ronde des Lutins, Op. 25

Veronika Vanja completed her secondary musical education at the Ljubljana Conservatory of Music and Ballet, where she studied with Jernej Brence, the founder and artistic director of the Bled Festival. She was involved in several musical theatre projects during these years, having been introduced to the possibilities of combining musical performance and theatre by the singer Marta Zore and the well-known actor Gojmir Lešnjak – Gojc. She has attended several Bled Festival masterclasses with world-famous violinists including Robert Szreder, Piotr Jasiurkowski and Sándor Jávorkai. She has won numerous national and international prizes in Slovenia, Italy and Serbia and has taken part in various festivals, winning first prizes in both violin and singing (String Fest, Solo Song Festival “Liebeslied”, Euritmia, Ars Nova). She represented Slovenia at the Vitebsk Festival in 2013, while in 2022 she represented Serbia at the 25th Balkan Youth Festival in Bulgaria, in a competition to find the best pop/rock singer in Bulgaria. While still a student she gave regular solo concerts supported by her friends, both within the music faculty and outside it. For the last ten years she has played a violin made by the renowned luthier Milan Oreški.

Ana Rodić is currently a second-year master’s student in the class of Ruben Dalibaltayan at the Ljubljana Academy of Music. She completed her early training with Dubravka Tomšič- Srebotnjak and spent her first two years at the Academy in the class of Jasminka Stančul. Her exceptional talent was apparent from an early age and is confirmed by the many prizes she has won at national and international competitions including International Competition Young Virtuoso in Zagreb, the International Competition for Young Pianists in Šabac, the Davorin Jenko International Competition, the Petar Konjović International Competition, the Republic Competition of Music and Ballet Schools of Serbia (laureate), the Peter Toperczer International Piano Competition in Košice (2013 – fourth prize of the five awarded), the Moritz Moszkowski International Piano Competition “Per aspera ad astra” (2017 – second place), the International Competition Sirmium Music Fest in Sremska Mitrovica (first prize) and the Janez Matičič International Piano Competition (2018 – second prize). At the end of 2015 she was named the best student of her generation at the Vladimir Djordjević Primary Music School.

Mark Lev Krajnc began learning the violin at the age of five with Barbara Kolbl before continuing his studies with Danica Koren. He is currently following a parallel programme as a fourth-year student at the Arts Gymnasium in Velenje and the Third Gymnasium in Maribor and is also enrolled in a preparatory course at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. He has participated in numerous national and international competitions, where he has won the highest accolades. In August 2024 he took part in the three-stage Kreutzer International Music Competition in Belgium, where he won third prize in his category. At the TEMSIG (Young Musicians of Slovenia) competition in March 2024, he won a first prize, gold plaque and special prizes for achieving a score of 100 points and for the best performance of a work by a Slovene composer. He has won other gold plaques and first prizes at previous editions of TEMSIG (2018, 2021), the first International Young Violinist Competition in Ljubljana, the Distant Chords Competition in Split (Croatia), the International Tartini Competition in Piran, the Sonus International Competition for Young Musicians in Križevci (Croatia), the World Open Music Competition in Belgrade and the Leon Pfeifer Violin Competition in Ljubljana. He has also participated successfully in international online competitions. In addition to solo recitals, he has performed as a soloist with ensembles including the String Orchestra of the Danica Koren Summer Music School, Camerata Laibach, the Zagreb String Orchestra and the Symphony Orchestra of the Velenje Arts Gymnasium and the Fran Korun Koželjski Music School. He has given a recital at the Lent Festival in Maribor. He regularly attends the Zaton Summer Music School, where he trains with teachers Miran Kolbl, Barbara Kolbl and Maja Rome. Mark Lev derives great pleasure from music. He cannot imagine life without the violin and aspires to continue his journey as a highly successful violinist.

Danijel Brecelj studied piano with Siavush Gadjiev at the Conservatory for Music and Ballet Ljubljana, completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the National Superior Conservatory for Music and Dance in Paris with Roger Muraro and completed a second master’s degree at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg in the class of Rolf Plagge. He has attended masterclasses with Jacques Rouvier and Karl-Heinz Kämmerling. He also holds a diploma in harmony from the Paris Conservatory. He has performed with the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra, the FVG Mitteleuropa Orchestra, and the University of Groningen orchestra, with conductors including Marko Munih and Anton Nanut, among others. He has won first prizes at two editions of the TEMSIG competition and a second prize at the Mayenne International Piano Competition in France. He was a finalist of the International Guido Alberto Fano Piano Competition in Italy and is a laureate of the Yamaha Music Foundation in France. At the age of 16 he performed his own Piano Concerto  at the Slovenian Philharmonic. In 2021 he organised the Dijon Piano Festival in France.