Veronika Brvar

Veronika Brvar, a graduate in musicology, has been actively present on the Slovenian musical scene for several decades. She had been the director of Radio Slovenia’s classical music programme for a number of years, having been elected into the expert committee of the European Broadcasting Union four times during that time. She had been the director of the programme division of the Ljubljana Festival, and currently works as the president and art director of the Glasbena matica Music Society of Ljubljana, and as the editor-in-chief of the music magazine Glasna, published by the Musical Youth of Slovenia. Her abundant international experience in programme formation and art direction is reflected in numerous successful editions of festivals, including the Gledanica, Echos and Tenso international festivals, while the Bells Concert within the 1997 Month of Culture, which she co-initiated with the Spanish composer Llorenç Barber, has gone down as an exceptional event by her. She has collaborated with central cultural institutions of Slovenia as a contributor covering music, and has participated in three TV Slovenia’s documentaries as their screenwriter: Let Music Bring Fresh Air into the City; Velvet Cantilene, i.e. a portrait of the violinist Dejan Bravničar, and a portrait of the composer Igor Švara.

As the president and art director of Glasbena matica, i.e. the oldest Slovenian music society, she, through her programme and other aspects of her work, has extended and enhanced its quality year by year, its music groups having been ever more esteemed on Slovenia’s musical scene with their innovative approaches, their events, and successful coproductions.