Siddharta is a five-piece Slovenian alternative rock band formed in 1995. They are named after the 1922 novel by the German writer Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha.
Omar Kareem Naber is a Slovenian singer, songwriter and guitar player. He first represented Slovenia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 in Kyiv with the song "Stop" and for a second time at the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 in Kyiv with the song "On My Way", but failed to qualify to the final on both occasions.
Ivo Petrić was a Slovenian composer of European classical music.
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.
Anton Nanut was a renowned Slovenian international conductor of classical music. From 1981 to 1999 he served as the chief conductor of the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra. He was a professor of conducting at the Ljubljana Academy of Music and the artistic leader of the Slovene Octet in its most productive years.
The RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra is a radio orchestra in Slovenia.
Alojz Ajdič is a multiple-time awarded Slovenian composer.
Martina Majerle is a Croatian singer of mixed Croatian and Slovenian descent. Majerle represented Slovenia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow, Russia with the string quartet Quartissimo with the song "Love Symphony". It competed in the second semi-final but failed to reach the final. Martina has also been a backing vocalist for several countries in various editions of the contest.
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.
Vito Žuraj is a Slovenian composer whose works are played internationally.
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.
Jani Golob is a Slovenian composer, violinist, arranger and professor.
Nenad Firšt, is a Slovene composer, conductor and violinist.
The Jenko Award is a literary award in Slovenia awarded each year for the best poetry collection in Slovene published in the previous two years. It has been bestowed since 1986 by the Slovene Writers' Association. It is named after the 19th-century Slovene poet Simon Jenko.
Dušan Velkaverh was a Slovenian lyricist.
Jože Privšek, who also presented himself with the pseudonyms Jeff Conway and Simon Gale, was one of the most acclaimed Slovene jazz and pop musicians. He was a pianist, vibraphonist, composer, and conductor.
Rossen Milanov is a Bulgarian conductor. He is Music Director of the Princeton Symphony Orchestra & New Jersey's Symphony in C. He is also Principal Conductor of Orquesta Sinfonica del Principado de Asturias, in Spain and the former Music Director of Bulgaria's New Symphony Orchestra. He is the Music Director of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra and the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra.
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.
Parliamentary elections were held in Slovenia on 24 April 2022 to elect all 90 members of the National Assembly.
