Ivo Petrić was a Slovenian composer of European classical music.
Lovro von Matačić was a Croatian conductor and composer.
Vinko Globokar is a French-Slovenian avant-garde composer and trombonist.
Uroš Lajovic is a Slovenian conductor. He has served as guest conductor, permanent conductor, artistic director and artistic advisor at numerous prominent European orchestras.
The RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra is a radio orchestra in Slovenia.
Jorge Uliarte is an Argentinian conductor and is principally known as the artistic director of the International Festival of Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. In 2011 he began a sister festival in Orvieto, Italy.
Lucijan Marija Škerjanc was a Slovene composer, music pedagogue, conductor, musician, and writer who was accomplished on and wrote for a number of musical instruments such as the piano, violin and clarinet. His style reflected late romanticism with qualities of expressionism and impressionism in his pieces, often with a hyperbolic artistic temperament, juxtaposing the dark against melodic phrases in his music.
Oksana Pečeny is a Ukrainian violinist.
Boštjan Lipovšek is a Slovenian classical horn player. A native of Celje, he studied at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana with Jože Falout. He is associated with much contemporary Slovenian music and has performed works by Lojze Lebič, Ivo Petrić, Uroš Krek, Jani Golob, Tomaž Habe and Vito Žuraj. In 2008 he was awarded the Prešeren Award.
Božidar Kantušer was a Slovene composer of classical music. He was a Slovenian citizen and an American citizen.
Uroš Krek was a Slovenian composer. A native of Ljubljana, he died in Jesenice. He worked for many years for Radiotelevizija Slovenija, and composed a number of soundtracks. Krek was a pupil of Lucijan Marija Škerjanc.
Nenad Firšt, is a Slovene composer, conductor and violinist.
Dušan Velkaverh was a Slovenian lyricist.
Jure Ivanušič is a Slovene theatre and film actor, director, playwright, concert pianist, composer, chansonnier and translator.
Vlatka Oršanić is a Croatian opera singer (soprano) and vocal pedagogue.
Events in the year 2017 in Slovenia.
Sara Briški Cirman, better known by her stage name Raiven, is a Slovenian mezzo-soprano, pop singer, songwriter, and harpist. She first garnered wide recognition while competing to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest for Slovenia during the national final Evrovizijska Melodija (EMA) in 2016 with the song Črno bel, where she placed second. Raiven went on to return to EMA in 2017, placing third with the song Zažarim, and has competed again in 2019 with the song KAOS, placing second.
Nadezda Tokareva is a Russian-Slovenian classical violinist and teacher, based in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Marko Letonja is a Slovenian conductor.
