Ana Marija Krajnc (SI)
born 1999 in Ljubljana, is a Slovenian harpsichordist, organist, and chamber musician. She has completed her bachelor studies in harpsichord at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana with prof. Egon Mihajlović, where she also studied the organ with prof. Dalibor Miklavčič. She is currently perfecting her skills in both instruments at the Civica scuola di musica Claudio Abbado in Milan with prof. Lorenzo Ghielmi. She has performed at several organ and early music festivals at home and abroad, such as the International Harpsichord Festival in Belgrade, the Festival of early music by the Società dell Quartetto as well as at the San Colombano Museum, where she performed a recital on original instruments from the Tagliavini collection. Ana Marija Krajnc is the recipient of the absolute first prize at the international Gianni Gambi harpsichord competition in Pesaro, Italy 2022. She won second place at the international Lauxmin Vilnius harpsichord competition, where she also received a special award from the organization Coin du Roi - Société d'Opéra. She is very active as a chamber musician and is regularly invited to perform as a continuo player with the Chamber Orchestra of the Slovenian Philharmonic. This year she ranked among the first 15 candidates from around the world at the Musashino-Tokyo International Organ Competition in Japan.
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Sitting in front of the small screen showing the image of the organist Ana Marjia Krajnc during the concert last night, August 8, held in the parish church of Orino, I live next to many people, an hour of enchantment; the richness and complementarity of the pieces proposed: from Bach to Leo Hassler, from Sweelinck to Buxtehude and the perfection of execution by the organist, allowed me to fully enjoy a sense of ecstatic contemplation. Music, if well-chosen and well proposed, truly becomes a powerful means of communication that knows how to dig deep and awaken surprising inner thoughts and paths. (Menta Rosmario, L’ Organista Ana Marjia Krajnc in concerto nella chiesa di Orino, Don Silvio Bernasconi, 10.8.2022)
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This young artist achieved memorable contrasts in her mature interpretations... her Bach was performed with optimal rhythmic precision and accentuation, passages with every tone perfectly audible; in all performed compositions, Krajnc showed an extremely clear image and a great variety of characters. (MITO Settembre Musica, 28.7.2022)
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Ana Marija Krajnc, Slovenian, student of Lorenzo Ghielmi, won the first overall prize at the XVIII edition of the "Gianni Gambi" International Harpsichord Competition, organized by the Pesaro Conservatory: 29 participants from all over Europe, including students from institutions such as Paris, Basel and Amsterdam. (Civica Scuola di Musica Claudio Abbado, News, Ana Marija Krainc, clavicembalo, vince il primo premio assoluto al Concorso internazionale di Clavicembalo "Gianni Gambi", 26.3.2022)
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Her playing is characterized by a measured approach, through which the melodies and games of Giovanni Paolo Cima, Girolamo Frescobaldi and Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck sounded particularly well. This young artist made striking contrasts in terms of varied repeated phrases in compositions based on the variation principle, and above all we should mention Sweelinck's variations Mein junges Leben hat ein End. Johann Sebastian Bach's English Suite No. 3 in G minor was played rhythmically precisely and with well-used accentuation, while the passage movements were performed with the audibility of every note. Generally speaking, Krajnc showed various characters in all her compositions through extremely refined textural image, which came to the fore especially in several movements from Capriccio in G minor by Johann Josef Fuchs. (Muzički limbo Muzička kritika i napisi o muzici / Dušan Toroman i Ana Marija Krajnc, Srđan Teparić, 11.12.2021)
