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Conductor Uroš Lajovic has been leading orchestras since 1965. Numerous internationally renowned soloists, orchestras and choirs have performed under his baton. Throughout his professional career he has conducted countless concerts and opera productions in Slovenia and abroad. He is credited as the initiator of many Slovenian music compositions and conductor of their premiere performances. Maestro Lajovic taught at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna from 1991.
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Uroš Planinc Group is a renowned guitar rock band in Slovenia. At the international festival Newcomer in Graz, frontman Uroš Planinc was awarded the best guitar player of the festival. He is also one of the few musicians chosen as the official world representatives of the guitar manufacturer Magneto Guitars.
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Guitarist Uroš Rakovec dedicates himself to different areas of music: classical, jazz and traditional music, and is member of numerous projects in these genres.
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Composer and clarinettist Uroš Rojko divides his time between Berlin, Vienna and Ljubljana. He is professor of composition and music theory at the Ljubljana Academy of Music. As a composer and educator, Uroš Rojko advocates an open, internationally informed creative discourse
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Urša Lah scored her first successes as the conductor of the Veter mixed choir, and later as conductor and artistic director of the Academic Choir Tone Tomšič. She is a Finland-based lecturer and choral director of the Utopia & Reality Chamber Choir, which she co-founded with the acclaimed conductor Ragnar Rasmussen.
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Urška Pompe is a Slovenian composer and educator. Her creative output mainly consists of chamber and vocal works.
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Urška Supej is a jazz guitarist who leads her own music projects.
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Uršula Ramoveš and her band perform musical settings of poems written mostly in the local dialect by her spouse, Janez Ramoveš, an acclaimed poet from Poljane Valley. The idiosyncratic group is an important part of Slovenia’s ethno-chanson scene.
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"Vagabunda is two people who walk across this earth playing their acoustic guitars", say Jure Jurca and Matevž Pavčnik the founders of the band. The music they play are songs that they listened to when they were young boys just learning to play guitar. After playing many gigs in Slovenia, Austria and Italy, the two rockers recorded their first EP single named Away. It was released on wooden USB keys. Dallas Records Slovenia took care of the digital release. Since 2013 Vagabunda are determened to play music as authentic as possible thought other bands lately sound all a like. That is why Jure and Matevž like to experiment in their own songs. In 2016 a new album came about. Its name is Open and was release on vinyl. This time not as acoustic as previous work. We can hear drums and bass on most of the tracks. The album was produced by Matej Gobec a man known as the sound engineer of a Slovenian band Laibach. Today the band is on a quest to record a new album. The first single was released in April 2018 and is named Annie More. Vagabunda have their own brand of snapc named Vandrovec and liqueur named Sopotnica. If anybody wants to see the band live they can do so anytime since they play all the time. The band performs as a duet and as a quartet.
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As a founding father of Slovenian techno, Valentino Kanzyani has been involved in the country’s dance scene since the mid 1990s. A celebrated DJ first and foremost, Valentino built a solid reputation for himself whilst he was resident spinner of Ambasada Gavioli - Slovenia’s most famous electronic music club. His fame grew when he started spinning on three turntables as standard. Joining forces with fellow countryman and techno champion Umek, Valentino saw his first release in 1999 under the moniker Recycled Loops. Due to the success of their joint EPs, Valentino Kanzyani and Umek set up Recycled Loops as a record label, which further helped establish Valentino as a major player in Eastern Europe’s techno scene. A number of world tours, festival appearances and big club gigs followed. Whilst Valentino’s sound has evolved over the years, he is committed to protecting the art of the DJ with real integrity. Valentino set up his label Jesus Loved You in 2005, for instance, just as digital downloading was becoming the main dissemination channel for the music industry. Instead of joining the trend, Valentino decided to release his label’s music mainly on vinyl as a way to support the true original format of the DJ. And it is his love for vinyl that has seen him flourish today, to become one of most respected underground vinyl djs around. Through 2012, Valentino released a series of Eps on Cadenza in the build up to his debut artist album ‘Love & Gratitude’. The latest EP as well as a continuous mixed cd which includes all tracks from the project was released in April 2013. The project showcases Valentino Kanzyani’s underground house vision and it also represents a new chapter in Valentino Kanzyani’s career – as part of Cadenza’s booking agency.