Cuerdas al pasado (SI/HR)

As an extraordinary talent, Izidor Erazem Grafenauer was accepted to the Academy of Music in Ljubljana, where he graduated in 2013 in the class of prof. Andrej Grafenauer. In 2017, he received his master's degree in historical brass instruments in Venice with prof. Tiziano Bagnati, and he finished his specialization in guitar in 2018 in Zagreb with prof. István Römer. He performs as a soloist (guitar, baroque guitar, theorbo, baroque lute, vihuela) and chamber musician throughout Slovenia and at important festivals and music centres in various European countries and North America. In recent years, in addition to solo recitals, he has performed as a soloist with the orchestras Musica Viva and La voce strumentale from Moscow and the Chamber String Orchestra of the Slovenian Philharmonic. In 2018, Divya records released his first solo album with compositions for baroque lute, and in December 2019, Baros records released his album with new compositions by Slovenian composers for guitar solo and guitar in chamber groups. In 2022, he released the album Xylocorda with Petra Vidmar at ZKP RTV. He works as a self-employed person in culture.

Ana Julija Mlejnik Železnik has achieved success on international stages and has debuted as a soloist with an orchestra in London, Paris, Tokyo, Brussels, Ancona, Toronto and Ljubljana (Cankarjev Dom). Among other things, in 2008, during the visit of the British Queen Elizabeth II. and the Duke of Edinburgh played as a soloist with the Police Orchestra in the great hall of the Slovenian Philharmonic. She has already shared the stage with many big musical names, and in December 2018, the University of Ljubljana awarded her the title of assistant at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana. In addition, she is the artistic director of the chamber music festival Loka da Camera in Škofja Loka. She likes to participate in chamber ensembles. She won the first prize at the international competition of young musicians in Genoa.

Mojca Jerman is a baroque and classical violinist. She recently completed postgraduate studies in baroque violin in the class of Professor Enrico Gatti at the Conservatory of Music in Bologna. Before that, she studied at the Ljubljana Academy of Music, where her professor was Vasilij Meljnikov. During her studies, she received additional education at the University of Music and Visual Arts in Graz under Professor Priya Mitchell. She received the student Prešeren award for her artistic achievements during her studies. She mainly performs as a chamber and orchestral musician. She likes to upgrade and consolidate her knowledge at additional seminars and academies. In the past, she attended several orchestral academies such as the Cuban-European Youth Academy, Accademia Haydn, and Dartington International Summer School Orchestra. She is the recipient of the Italian award Il Premio Nazionale delle Arti.

Hiwote Tadesse is a Croatian violist of Ethiopian origin. She studied in Belgium and the Netherlands at the Conservatory in Maastricht, where she obtained her master's degree as the best student of her generation. Hiwote is the winner of several international awards (Citta di Barletta in Italy, Grand Prix at the International Competition of Young Musicians in Moscow, etc.), and as a soloist she has performed with the Orchestra of the Royal Conservatory in Ghent, with the La Chapelle Sauvage ensemble and the Croatian Baroque Ensemble. She is currently employed as a viola leader in the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra.

Lea Sušanj Lujo received her master's degree in cello at the Academy of Music in Zagreb in 2010, and in the same year she was employed as a member of the HRT Symphony Orchestra. As a student, she also became a member of the Croatian Baroque Ensemble. He regularly collaborates with outstanding interpreters of baroque music such as Enrico Onofri, Herve Niquet, Catherine Mackintosh, Stefano Montanari, Alessandro Tampieri, Bruno Cocset, Jaap Ter Linden, Rachel Brown, Marcello Gatti, Andreas Helm and others. In 2019, under the direction of Bojan Čičić and Dmitry Sinkovski, she recorded the CD Music of Dubrovnik Summer Games for the Dubrovnik Summer Games festival. He plays in several groups for early music, such as Ars Longa, Minstrel, RiBaSol, Trio Corrente and ChiaroScuro, and regularly collaborates with the Antiphonus ensemble.