Master’s degree

The Royal Conservatory of The Hague, The Netherlands

Study programme:

• Composition, mentors Martijn Padding and Peter Adriaansz
• Research Thesis: Prepared Instruments And The »Magnetic Properties« of String Instruments

Bachelor and Master’s degree ‘Average 9,4; Grade of diploma work 10’

Academy of Music, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Study programmes:

• Composition and Theory of Music – Academic, mentor Uroš Rojko

• Composition and Theory of Music – Pedagogics

• Piano – Pedagogics

Music Gymnasium

I. Gymnasium Celje, Slovenia

Majors:

• Piano, mentor Larisa Čanji
• Composition, mentor Peter Kopač

Primary music education

Music school Žalec and Celje, Slovenia

Subjects:

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

• 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

• 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

• The Prešeren Fund Award 2026, one of the highest recognitions in the Republic of Slovenia for achievements in the field of artistic creation, Slovenia, ‘26 -> LINK

• BERLIN ART PRIZE for Music 2021, one of the prestigious prize in the fields of creative arts, awarded by the Academy of Arts – Akademie der Künste Berlin (since 1948), Germany ‘21 -> LINK

• Winner of The International ROSTRUM of Composers Prize (since 1954) organised by the International Music Council for the world’s best contemporary music work for the piece ‘Prana’, Argentina ‘19 -> LINK

• Fellowship and Art Residency at Villa Concordia Bamberg, granted by Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts, the major German Residency Award, Germany ‘20 – ‘21 -> LINK

• The piece ‘Attack’ selected for 27th Annual MATA Festival New York, United States, a prestigious festival founded by Philip Glass and others, ‘25 -> LINK

• The piece ‘SCREAdoM’ selected for Matthijs Vermeulen Prize, The Netherlands, ‘25

• Award scholarship for Music achievements JAK RS-Slovenian Book Agency, ‘21

• A finalist of 2nd Balkan Composer Competition in Prishtina – BCCP 2021, Kosovo, ‘21 -> LINK

• The piece ‘Between East and West’ was selected for ECCO – European Contemporary Composers Orchestra Concert by ECSA 2021

• Art Residency at CONA, ZVO.ČI.TI – so.und.ing, Slovenia ‘20 -> LINK

• Art Residency with Ensemble Modelo62, project ‘DisOrders’, The Netherlands ’18 – ‘20

• Selected by the Dutch jury for ISCM, The Netherlands ‘17, ’18, ‘21, ‘24

• Selected by the Slovenian jury for ISCM, Slovenia ’17, ‘21, ‘26

• Selected for 24th Young Composers Meeting- Ereprijs Orkest, The Netherlands ‘18

• The piece ‘Attack’ was selected for 34th International Review of Composers, Serbia ‘25

• The piece ‘Crop circle’ was selected for 28th International Review of Composers, Serbia ‘19

• The piece ‘Attraction’ was selected for 26th International Review of Composers, Serbia ‘17

• Art Residency at the Experimental studio SWR Freiburg, Germany ’16, ‘17

• The piece ‘Between East and West’ was selected for TROMP competition, Eindhoven, The Netherlands ‘12

• MusMA – Master Music on Air European Award, Europe ’12

• Jury and audience Award for the piece ‘Awareness’ Bienalle Koper, Slovenia ’12

• The piece ‘Obsession’ was selected for International Rostrum of Composers ’12

• Selected for EU-ART-NETWORK, Vienna, Austria ’11

• Prešeren Award for outstanding students, the highest recognition in the Republic of Slovenia for achievements in the field of artistic creation, Slovenia ‘10

Grant by Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia for the project ‘1945–’, ‘25

Grant by Fonds Podiumkunsten NL for the project ‘SCREAdoM’, ‘23

Grant by Investeringsfonds 2 NL for the project ‘BallerinaBallerina’, ‘21

Grant by Fonds Podiumkunsten NL for the project ‘The Eternal Now’, ‘21

Grant by Investeringsfonds NL for the project ‘The Eternal Now’, ‘21

Grant by Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia for the project ‘Impuls-es’, ’21

Grant by Fonds Podiumkunsten NL ‘Nieuwe Makers project’ for the project ‘DisOrders, ‘18 – ‘20 -> LINK

Grant by Municipality of The Hague for the Opera project ‘BallerinaBallerina’, ‘20

Grant by Dioraphte for the Opera project ‘BallerinaBallerina’, ‘20

Grant by City of Ljubljana for the Opera project ‘BalerinanirelaB’, ’20

Grant by Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia for the Opera project ‘BalerinanirelaB’, ’18

Grant by Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia for the piece ‘Panisteriah’, ’09

Commissioned by Musik der Jahrhunderte, ‘23, ‘25

Commissioned by Ensemble KNM Berlin, ‘25

Commissioned by Airborne Extended Wien, ‘25

Commissioned by Festival ORF Musikprotokoll, ‘22

Commissioned by Ensemble Modern, ‘22

Commissioned by TROMP Percussion Eindhoven, ‘22

Commissioned by Swedish radio, ‘21

Commissioned by Ljubljana New Music Forum, 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

ORF Festival Musikprotokoll, Austria

EU-art-network, Oslip, Austria

Music Biennale Zagreb, Croatia

Trstenice, Czech Republic

LSO St Luke, London, England

Ultraschall Berlin, Germany

SWR Freiburg, Germany

Bamberger Kurzfilmtage, Germany

Festival der Performance Art Frankfurt, Germany

Konzert- und Kongresshalle Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany

Alte Oper Frankfürt, Frankfürt am Main, Germany

Der Sommer in Stuttgart, Germany

Festival Voices, Berlin, Germany

Erasmus Summer Festival, Castelfranco Veneto, Italy

Donderdagavondserie, Muziekgebouw Amsterdam, The Netherlands

November Music, Den Bosch, The Netherlands

Tromp percussion Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Dag van de Componist, The Hague, The Netherlands

Muziekgebouw, The Netherlands

Gaudeamus Music Week, The Netherlands

Amsterdam Dance Event, The Netherlands

Dag in de Branding, The Netherlands

International Review of Composers in Belgrade, Serbia

Festival Slowind, Slovenia

Slovenian Music Days, Slovenia

Slovenian Philharmonic, Slovenia

The Cankar Centre, Slovenia

International Guitar festival Postojna, Slovenia

Festival Ljubljana, Slovenia

Festival Internacional de Música y Danza de Granada, Spain

Lund, Sweden

Gare du Nord Basel, Switzerland

International Ankara Music Festival, Turkey

The MATA Festival New York, The United States of America

Dance Studio Theater in Stoner West, Pennsylvania, The United States of America

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

Guest lecturer at The Freie Universiteit Berlin, University of Berlin, Germany, ’25

Private teacher for Piano, Composition, Music Theory, Singing, ’11 – ‘22

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 at the Art residency Podlog pod Bohorjem, Online, ‘21

Artist talk at the New Music Forum Ljubljana, Online, ‘20

Artist talk at Splendor, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, ‘20 -> LINK

Artist talk at Gaudeamus Music Week, Utrecht, The Netherlands, ‘19

Artist talk at Dag in de Branding, The Hague, The Netherlands, ‘19 -> LINK

Artist talk at the DisOrders project with Psychologist Christian Bouwkamp, ‘19

Artist talk at VTIS, Slovenian Embassy, The Hague, The Netherlands, ‘19

Artist talk at Muziekgebouw Amsterdam, The Netherlands, ‘15

Artist talk at Ostadetheater Amsterdam, The Netherlands, ‘13