Igor Lumpert, tenor saxophonist and composer, was born in Novo mesto, Slovenia in 1975 and now lives in New York City. When he was nineteen years old, he enrolled at the Bruckner Conservatory in the Austrian city of Linz where he graduated with honours. He continued his musical studies as a scholarship student at the New School in New York. He has collaborated with many established musicians.

Born into a musical family, Igor Matković (1983) received his earliest musical education from his father, a trumpet teacher. As a musician in his own right, Matković has won three successive Slovenian classical trumpet competitions. He attended classical as well as jazz classes at the Ljubljana Music and Ballet Conservatory, where he is currently a professor of jazz trumpet. He studied at the University of Graz, Austria. Besides working with jazz ensembles as trumpet player or composer, he has also formed music partnerships with artists engaged in different genres, including pop and rock musicians; as a sideman, he has contributed to over 30 albums.

Two out of three – a dramatic exploration of dark electroacoustic soundscapes full of digitally generated and reciprocally interwoven patterns of drone tension, melancholy and Dadaism. Floating above them are the innocent sounds of the electric harp, which light the way towards cold ambient horizons. Our guides on this tour are audio-visual artist and harp master Urška Preis aka rouge-ah and Tine Vrabič aka Nitz, a versatile explorer of electronic sounds and programme manager at Ljubljana’s K4. Your souvenir from their upcoming gig at Ljubljana Castle will be the long-awaited EP, which the duo will premiere at MENT 2020.

In her youth, she trained in dance, sang in choirs, and attended piano and solo singing lessons. She attended the Rudolf Maister School Center in Kamnik, majoring in high school. In 2007, she began working with producer Simon Skalar. She wrote the lyrics for her songs herself. She released her first album in 2016. As a singer, she wants to succeed in London.

The indie rock group Infected, which is based in Ptuj, is the winner of many music competitions.

The ensemble mostly performs madrigals and motets from renaissance period, arrangements of Slovenian folksongs and new contemporary pieces composed by the young Slovenian authors. The main purpose of the ensemble is presenting rarely performed or even unknown masterpieces, promoting the young composers and growing in quality of the sound and performance itself.

INGRIT SCHŰLLER is a four-piece psychedelic pop band formed in the Slovenian countryside. They met in a waiting room for a kids comercial when they were young. The friendship grew strong over the years but it wasn´t until the year 2016 that they formed the band. The release of their debut album is expected in the start of the new year.

Ingver in Gverilke is a performative vocal trio with a selection of original, found and inherited songs. From polyphony to improvisation, the voice is their instrument of choice. Interweaving vocals, the trio weave a braid of voices. Their music relies on simple arrangements and repetition. They pursue the voice with movement and the movement with the voice. Their expression is inspired by punk, folk music, free jazz, Saharan blues, minimalism and the sound of various languages. In their songs, they address issues such as migration, solidarity with the oppressed, etc. In a ludic spirit, they use humour to create extremely poetic music.

Velenje metal group Inmate performs in domestic settings as well as abroad. The group has featured as opening act for the world-renowned Hatebreed and Dark Tranquillity.

Irena Grafenauer completed her studies in 1975 in Ljubljana, and further improved her skills with two solo flutists at the Berlin Philharmonic, Karlheinz Zöller in Hamburg and Aurèl Nicolet in Freiburg. As the first woman in history and also a foreigner, in 1977 she made her way to the soloist position of one of the best German and world orchestras, the Bavarian Radio Orchestra, which was then conducted by the renowned permanent conductors Rafael Kubelik and Sir Colin Davis. She continued her artistic career as a top soloist and a teacher, since 1987 she has been a full professor of flute at the Mozarteum College of Music in Salzburg. She is the only flutist in the world to record an exclusive series of ten records for the Dutch label Philips, and as one of the most respected interpreters of Mozart's music, she has participated at the world's largest music publishing project - the release of Mozart's collected works on 180 records.