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3rd Concert of the International Music Cycle

TEJA UDOVIČ KOVAČIČ, accordion

Programme

J. S. Bach: Prelude and Fugue in G-sharp minor, BWV 863
D. Scarlatti: Sonata in B minor, K.227
V. Holmboe: Sonata For Accordion No. 1, Op. 143a
A. Kusjakov: Autumn Landscapes
F. Angelis: Romance

PIANO TRIO RÊVERIE

Programme

J. Brahms: Piano Trio No. 1 in B major, Op. 8

Teja Udovič Kovačič began studying the concert accordion at the age of six with teacher E. Udovič Kovačič at Koper Music School. To date she has won 12 first prizes at regional, national and international competitions, also scoring 11 first places and winning several special prizes. She has twice won the national young musicians’ competition TEMSIG (2011, 2017), in 2011 achieving a perfect score of 100 points. As a soloist she has performed with the symphony orchestra Nova Filharmonija, the Chamber Orchestra of the Coast, the Vladimir Lovec String Orchestra, the Vladimir Lovec Symphony Orchestra and the Accordion Orchestra of the Maribor Conservatory of Music and Ballet. In 2017 she won the International Accordion Competition in Pula (Croatia) and in April 2018 scored 100 points at the Svirél International Music Competition. This year she reached the final of the Eurovision Young Musicians, where she performed as a soloist with the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra. Having graduated from the Arts Gymnasium in Koper and the Maribor Conservatory of Music and Ballet (where she studied with S. Magdić), she is continuing her accordion studies at the Ljubljana Academy of Music with B. Zagoranski.