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| duration weeks      = 40,41 (2012) 41,42 (2013) 42,43 (2014)
| duration weeks      = 40,41 (2012) 41,42 (2013)
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| festival dates      = 19.10.2015 - 26.10.2015, 22.10.2016 - 29.10.2016, 25.11.2017 - 1.12.2017, 5.11.2018 - 20.11.2018
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The organisers decided that the 20th edition of the festival (2018) is also going to be its last.
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==Archival article==
  
 
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Since [[established::1999]] the members of the [[Slowind Quintet|the wind quintet of the same name]] have been organising the [[Slowind Festival]] and have since established it as one of the main events that brings contemporary works of Slovene and international composers to the forefront of the Ljubljana music stages. The annual festival features mostly chamber and electro-acoustic works by composers such as E. Carter, [[Vinko Globokar|V. Globokar]], W. Rihm, E. Varèse, K. Stockhausen, L. Berio as well as new works by young Slovene composers. Each year the festival offers a variety of concerts exploring a chosen theme as well as workshops and pre-concert discussions with composers and lectures by music experts. The concert repertoire is performed by different Slovene and international musicians as well as the [[Slowind Quintet]]. Guest musicians featured at the festival include mezzo-soprano [[Barbara Jernejčič Fürst]], hornist [[Andrej Žust]], the Ensemble Aleph, flautist Robert Aitken, and harpist Coline-Marie Orliac.  
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Founded in [[established::1999]] and mainly taking place at the [[Slovene Philharmonic]], the [[Slowind Festival]] is the main Slovene occasion for modern and contemporary composed music, featuring chamber and electro-acoustic works as well as pieces for bigger ensembles. Works of both Slovene and international composers are explored and performed by some of the best new music ensembles from around the world. Each year the festival offers a variety of concerts – usually exploring a chosen theme or artistic direction – as well as workshops and pre-concert discussions with composers and lectures by music experts.  
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The festival is organised by the [[Slowind]], at the same time a producer (also know as the Slowind Music Society) and a highly renowned wind quintet. They who have recently expanded the festival with the similarly oriented concert cycle entitled Slowind Spring.  
 
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==Background==
 
==Background==
The [[Slowind Quintet]] is made up of soloists of the [[Slovene Philharmonic]]: flautist [[Aleš Kacjan]], oboist [[Matej Šarc]], clarinettist [[Jurij Jenko]], bassoonist [[Paolo Calligaris]], and hornist [[Metod Tomac]]. The ensemble was initially established as a trio in 1987 by [[Aleš Kacjan]], [[Jurij Jenko]], and [[Zoran Mitev]], who came together because of the National Musicians Competition of Yugoslavia, where they won first prize. The trio performed at festivals and events in Slovenia and abroad, among others at the Paris fair Musicora and the International Summer Festival in Dubrovnik. The ensemble expanded into a wind quintet in 1994 with the intention of performing 20th-century and rare or seldom–performed contemporary music on Slovene stages.
 
  
The annual Slowind Festival was initiated with the intention of commissioning new compositions from Slovene and international composers for the wind quintet as well as presenting well-known and seldom performed compositions from the 20th-century chamber music repertoire. This repertoire is performed at the festival with many renowned guest musicians on the stage of the Slovene Philharmonic. For their work to date, [[Slowind Quartet]] have received the [[Župančič Award of the City of Ljubljana|Župančič Award]] in 1999 and the [[Prešeren Award and Prešeren Foundation Awards|Prešeren Foundation Award]] in 2003.
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The annual Slowind Festival was set up with the intention of commissioning new compositions from Slovene and international composers for the wind quintet as well as presenting well-known and seldom performed compositions from the 20th-century chamber music repertoire. It was initially run as a concert cycle and only in 2005 condensed into its present festival form.
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Its founders and main organisers, the [[Slowind Quintet]], are all soloists of the [[Slovene Philharmonic Orchestra]], with the event headed by the oboist [[Matej Šarc]]. They partake in the festival in various ways, often also commissioning new works either for their ensemble or for the artists involved. 
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===Conceptual focus===
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Each year the music curation is entrusted to another composer with whom the organisers set the main theme (and tone) of the festivals.
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Some of the recently chosen curators were the French composer Brice Pauset (he built the programme around the idea of mingling early music with new works, a concept also explored by the chosen curator of 2013, the young German composer Matthias Pintscher), the famed Slovene composers [[Vinko Globokar]] and [[Vito Žuraj]], the Canadian flautist and composer Robert Aitken (he focused the festival on Japanese avantgarde music, modernist as well as contemporary); and Neville Hall, who took care of the first condensed edition in 2005.
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==Repertoire==
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The festival's repertoire includes contemporary, often commissioned new works written for the Slowind ensemble, yet also works for a number of different chamber, electro-acoustic or bigger orchestral groups, which (can) feature wind instruments in a leading role. New works by young Slovene composers like [[Nina Šenk]] and [[Bojana Šaljić Podešva]] are often presented.
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Works by composers such as E. Carter, [[Vinko Globokar|V. Globokar]], [[Lojze Lebič]], W. Rihm, E. Varèse, K. Stockhausen, L. Berio, G. Ligeti, and P. Boulez get to be frequently featured in the programme.  
  
 
==International participation==  
 
==International participation==  
The Slowind Festival features many international musicians, who perform contemporary pieces together with the [[Slowind Quintet]]. The festival concerts bring to Ljubljana the performances of distinguished international chamber ensembles including Accroche Note, Ensemble Aleph, the ensemble SurPlus, as well as musicians such as percussionist Matthias Wüsch, violinist and conductor Arvid Engegård, oboist Heinz Hollinger, and trombonist Ivo Nilsson. The featured contemporary programme, which also includes works such as Schoenberg's ''Pierrot Lunaire'' and Xenakiss' ''Phlegra'', is prepared and conceptualised in collaboration with international conductors and composers. The artists that collaborated with the [[Slowind Quintet]] in the festival's artistic direction include James Freeman and Jürg Wyttenbach.
 
  
The quintet also took part in the [[Maribor, European Capital of Culture 2012|European Capital of Culture Maribor 2012]] with the concert ''Spectre of Sounds'' featuring works by E. Carter and C. Nielsen among others.
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The Slowind Festival features many international musicians, who perform contemporary pieces together with the [[Slowind Quintet]].
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Guest musicians featured at the festival include the oboist Heinz Hollinger, trombonist Ivo Nilsson, flautist Robert Aitken, harpist Coline-Marie Orliac, violinist and conductor Arvid Engegård, mezzo-soprano [[Barbara Jernejčič Fürst]], hornist [[Andrej Žust]], the Ensemble Aleph, Ensemble S, Accroche Note, Quartetto Prometeo, the ensemble SurPlus, Académie des Secrets, the Dissonance String Quartet, [[SToP Slovene Percussion Project]], [[Drumartica]], etc.  
  
==Repertoire==
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The festival programme is regularly recorded and broadcast by Radio Slovenia, and the concert recordings are also played by foreign radio stations, including BBC 3, Dutch Radio and others.
The festival's repertoire includes commissioned new works written for the ensemble in its present form as well as many chamber works which feature wind instruments in a leading role. The programme is therefore only in part tailored to the wind quintet and is mostly focused on important 20th-century chamber works. A number of contemporary Slovene and foreign composers have thus dedicated works to the [[Slowind Quintet]] including [[Larisa Vrhunc]], [[Vinko Globokar]], [[Lojze Lebič]], [[Nina Šenk]], Neville Hall, Volker Staub, Ivo Nilsson, and Martin Smolka. The festival's programme includes works by composers such as G. Mahler, A. Schoenberg, G. Scelsi, G. Crumb, E. Varese, L. Berio and M. Kagel. Another unique element of the festival are performances of compositions featuring winds with other instruments such as the accordion, the Latvian ''kokle'', and different percussion instruments.
 
  
 
==See also==
 
==See also==
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* [[Slowind Quintet]]
 
* [[Slowind Quintet]]
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* [[Slovene Philharmonic]]
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* [[Slovene Philharmonic Orchestra]]
  
 
==External links==
 
==External links==
* [http://www.slowind.org/index.php?lang=en Slowind Quintet website]
 
* [http://twitter.com/SlowindQuintet Slowind Quintet on Twitter]
 
* [http://www.facebook.com/SlowindQuintet Slowind Quintet on Facebook]
 
  
[[Category:Music]]
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* [http://slowind.org/en/festivals/ Slowind Festival webpage]  
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[[Category:Music festivals]]
 
[[Category:Music festivals]]
[[Category:Festivals]]
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[[Category:Festivals in October]]
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[[Category:Updated 2017]]

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Festival Slowind
Prešernov trg 1, SI-1000 Ljubljana


Phone386 (0) 41 371 370
Organised bySlowind
Matej Šarc, President



Frequencyannual
Festival dates5.11.2018 - 20.11.2018



The organisers decided that the 20th edition of the festival (2018) is also going to be its last.

Archival article


Founded in 1999 and mainly taking place at the Slovene Philharmonic, the Slowind Festival is the main Slovene occasion for modern and contemporary composed music, featuring chamber and electro-acoustic works as well as pieces for bigger ensembles. Works of both Slovene and international composers are explored and performed by some of the best new music ensembles from around the world. Each year the festival offers a variety of concerts – usually exploring a chosen theme or artistic direction – as well as workshops and pre-concert discussions with composers and lectures by music experts.

The festival is organised by the Slowind, at the same time a producer (also know as the Slowind Music Society) and a highly renowned wind quintet. They who have recently expanded the festival with the similarly oriented concert cycle entitled Slowind Spring.


Background

The annual Slowind Festival was set up with the intention of commissioning new compositions from Slovene and international composers for the wind quintet as well as presenting well-known and seldom performed compositions from the 20th-century chamber music repertoire. It was initially run as a concert cycle and only in 2005 condensed into its present festival form.

Its founders and main organisers, the Slowind Quintet, are all soloists of the Slovene Philharmonic Orchestra, with the event headed by the oboist Matej Šarc. They partake in the festival in various ways, often also commissioning new works either for their ensemble or for the artists involved.

Conceptual focus

Each year the music curation is entrusted to another composer with whom the organisers set the main theme (and tone) of the festivals.

Some of the recently chosen curators were the French composer Brice Pauset (he built the programme around the idea of mingling early music with new works, a concept also explored by the chosen curator of 2013, the young German composer Matthias Pintscher), the famed Slovene composers Vinko Globokar and Vito Žuraj, the Canadian flautist and composer Robert Aitken (he focused the festival on Japanese avantgarde music, modernist as well as contemporary); and Neville Hall, who took care of the first condensed edition in 2005.

Repertoire

The festival's repertoire includes contemporary, often commissioned new works written for the Slowind ensemble, yet also works for a number of different chamber, electro-acoustic or bigger orchestral groups, which (can) feature wind instruments in a leading role. New works by young Slovene composers like Nina Šenk and Bojana Šaljić Podešva are often presented.

Works by composers such as E. Carter, V. Globokar, Lojze Lebič, W. Rihm, E. Varèse, K. Stockhausen, L. Berio, G. Ligeti, and P. Boulez get to be frequently featured in the programme.

International participation

The Slowind Festival features many international musicians, who perform contemporary pieces together with the Slowind Quintet.

Guest musicians featured at the festival include the oboist Heinz Hollinger, trombonist Ivo Nilsson, flautist Robert Aitken, harpist Coline-Marie Orliac, violinist and conductor Arvid Engegård, mezzo-soprano Barbara Jernejčič Fürst, hornist Andrej Žust, the Ensemble Aleph, Ensemble S, Accroche Note, Quartetto Prometeo, the ensemble SurPlus, Académie des Secrets, the Dissonance String Quartet, SToP Slovene Percussion Project, Drumartica, etc.

The festival programme is regularly recorded and broadcast by Radio Slovenia, and the concert recordings are also played by foreign radio stations, including BBC 3, Dutch Radio and others.

See also

External links