Curriculum Vitae

‘Esoterically speaking I see myself as a passenger in current time and space, open to appearing thoughts, creating ideas, collecting pieces for artistic work, which quivers minds.’

Since her beginning Petra has been following her path of searching for new sounds and she has never been barred by traditional way of how we think about sound and music. Petra was studying composition with Uroš Rojko, Martijn Padding and Peter Adriaansz. The piece Prana, for symphony orchestra, won her the 66th International ROSTRUM of Composers Prize. Her achievements among others brought her an Art Residency at Villa Concordia and the Berlin Art Prize for Music 2021.

Education



  • 2011 – 2014

    Master’s degree at The Royal Conservatory of The Hague, NL

    Composition, mentors Martijn Padding and Peter Adriaansz

    Research Thesis: Prepared Instruments And The »Magnetic Properties« of String Instruments

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  • 2004 – 2011

    Bachelor and Master’s degree ‘Average 9,4; Grade of diploma work 10’ at Academy of Music, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Academic study programmes:

    Composition and Theory of Music – Academic, mentor Uroš Rojko

    Composition and Theory of Music – Pedagogics

    Piano – Pedagogics

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  • 2000 – 2004

    Music Gymnasium Celje, Slovenia

    Majors in Piano, mentor Larisa Čanji and Composition, mentor Peter Kopač

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  • 1991 – 2002

    Primary music education in Music school Žalec and Celje, Slovenia

    Piano, Violin, Viola, Percussion, Organ, Opera and Choir singing, Composition, Orchestra practice, Solfeggio and Music theory

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  • Courses, Seminars, Training:

    Sonology course at The Royal Conservatory of The Hague, ‘15

    Erasmus Summer School for Multimedia, Castelfranco, Italy, ‘09

    Atlas Academy, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, ’12

    IMPULS Academy, Graz, Austria, ’11

    Matrix Academy for Composing at Experimentalstudio SWR Freiburg, Germany, ’10 ’11 ’12

    Gaudeamus Music Week, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, ’10

    Donaueschinger Musiktage, Germany, ’10

    Composition seminar, Trstenice, Czech Republic, ’07 ’09 ’10

    EarZoom, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 10

    Masterclasses with Christian Wolff, Magnus Lindberg, Vinko Globokar, Mark Andre, Fabio Nieder, Detlef Heusinger, Georg Fridrich Haas, others

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  • Scholarships:

    Scholarship from the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, ’11 – ’14

    Scholarship from Municipality Žalec, Slovenia ,’13 – ’14

    Scholarship Matrix, Germany, ’10, ’11, ’12

    Scholarship IMPULS Academy, ‘12

    Gaudeamus scholarship given by S.C. Trowell, England, ’10

    Scholarship ZKŠT Žalec, Slovenia, ’08

    Zois scholarship for gifted students, Slovenia, ’00 – ’11

 

 

Member of Nieuw Geneco – Dutch professional composers, The Netherlands, since ’17 -> LINK 
Member of DSS – Slovenian society of Composer, Slovenia, since ’11 -> LINK 
Signed by Donemus, Publishing House of Contemporary Classical Music, The Netherlands ’17
Signed by Buma/Stemra, The Netherlands ‘17

 

Awards/Grants


 

Selected commissions, festivals, podiums

    Commissions

     

  • Commissioned by Swedish radio, ‘21

  • Commissioned by New Music Forum Ljubljana, Slovenia, ‘20

  • Commissioned by RTV Symphony Orchestra Slovenia, ‘18

  • Commissioned by Dag in de Branding and Gaudeamus Festival, ‘18

  • Commissioned by Experimentalstudio SWR Freiburg, Germany, ‘17

  • Commissioned by Slovenian Philharmonic Choir, ‘16

  • Commissioned by Orgelpark Amsterdam, ’15

  • Commissioned by Nieuw ensemble, ‘14

  • Commissioned by Diamant Fabrik, ‘13

  • Commissioned by neuverBand, Switzerland, ‘13

  • Commissioned by Festival SLOWIND, ‘09

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    Podiums, Festivals

     

  • Ultraschall Berlin, Germany

  • SWR Freiburg, Germany

  • Bamberger Kurzfilmtage, Germany

  • Muziekgebouw, The Netherlands

  • Gaudeamus Music Week, The Netherlands

  • Amsterdam Dance Event, The Netherlands

  • Dag in de Branding, The Netherlands

  • Festival Slowind, Slovenia

  • Slovenian Music Days, Slovenia

  • Slovenian Philharmonic, Slovenia

  • The Cankar Centre, Slovenia

  • International Guitar festival Postojna, Slovenia

  • Festival Ljubljana, Slovenia

  • Music Biennale Zagreb, Croatia

  • International Ankara Music Festival, Turkey

  • International Review of Composers in Belgrade, Serbia

  • LSO St Luke, London, England

  • Lund, Sweden

  • Gare du Nord Basel, Switzerland

  • Festival Internacional de Música y Danza de Granada, Spain

  • EU-art-network, Oslip, Austria

  • Trstenice, Czech Republic

  • Erasmus Summer Festival, Castelfranco Veneto, Italy

  • ECCO – European Contemporary Composers Orchestra, Brussels, Belgium

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    Radios

     

  • Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Germany

  • Rbb Kultur, Germany

  • Radio SWR2, Germany

  • Radio ARS, Slovenia

  • BBC Radio 3, United Kingdom

  • NPO Radio 4, The Netherlands

  • Radioarte, Italy

  • Audio Areena, Finland

  • Radio 100,7, Luxembourg

  • RTP, Portugal

  • Latvijasradio, Latvia

 

Working experiences


    Freelance composer and interdisciplinary artist:  2011 – 2021

     

     

    Lecturer, Teacher

     

    • Private teacher for Piano, Composition, Music Theory, Singing, ’11 – ‘21
    • Guest lecturer at The Academy of Music, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, ‘13, ’18, ’21
    • Guest lecturer at The Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, ‘13, ’19, ’20
    • Guest lecturer – Feminist artists at DAS, Amsterdam, ‘19
    • External member of the committee at The Royal Conservatory of The Hague, ‘17
    • Invited lecturer at Matrix Experimentalstudio SWR Freiburg, Germany, ‘17
    • Producer of Lab-Korzo and CASS concerts at The Royal Conservatory of The Hague, ’12 – ‘14
    • Guest lecturer in IRZU festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia, ‘09
    • Member of the Jury of IRZU competition for composers, Ljubljana, Slovenia, ‘09
    • Professor at The Conservatory of Music in Novo Mesto, Slovenia, ’08 – ’11
    • Professor at the Music Gymnasium in Celje, Slovenia, ’09
    • Choir conductor, Slovenia, ’04 – ’11

     

    Artist talk

     

     

 

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