STRLIC – KOVACIC - STRLIC PIANO TRIO

Performers:

Gregor Kovacic (clarinet)

Gorazd Strlic (violoncello)

Mirjam Strlic (piano)

Programme: L. van Beethoven, J. Brahms

GREGOR KOVACIC started learning to play clarinet from his father and finished his education under prof. Alojz Zupan at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana. He continued his musical education in New York with prof. Kalmen Opperman. At the invitation of L'Academie musicale de Villecroze in France he was collaborating with Paul Meyer and Michel Prtal. He is also a member of many courses, which have been led by Richard Stoltzman, Anthony Pay and Jacques Di Donato. As a soloist and member of different ensembles he has been performing throughout Slovenia, Europe, the Near East, North Africa and North America.

GORAZD STRLIC is a Maribor born, fourth-year student of Academy of Music in Ljubljana. He started playing cello at the age of 7 with Professor Vladimir Kovacic. As a young musician he also participated in various seminars with Professors: D. Grigorijan, V. Despalj, C. Skerjanec, M. Mlejnik, I. Gavris, etc., but he also took part in competitions in Slovenia and abroad. He has been performing all over the country for quite a few years as a soloist with symphonic orchestras and was awarded a Klasinec prize.

MIRJAM STRLIC finished her Primary School of Music in a coastal town of Koper and continued her Secondary School of Music education in Ljubljana, with Alenka Dekleva. After graduation, she studied at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana. She graduated in 2003. In the course of her musical education she participated in many seminars in Slovenia and abroad. She also studied at the University of Music in Vienna as part of the Erasmus programme.

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