Maruša Brezavšček (SI): recorder

EDUCATION
(2023) Basel, Schola Cantorum Basiliensis – Master’s degree
(2021) Basel, Schola Cantorum Basiliensis – Master’s degree
(2018/2019) Barcelona, Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya – Erasmus exchange(2019) Salzburg, Universität Mozarteum Salzburg – completed undergraduate studies
(2018) Brescia, Conservatorio di Musica Luca Marenzio
(2014) Salzburg, Universität Mozarteum Salzburg – pre-academic programme

CONCERTS (selected)
(2025) Radovljica, Festival Radovljica
(2025) Celje, Seviqc festival
(2025) Basel, Forum Frühe Musik ReRenaissance
(2025) York, York Early Music Festival
(2024) Innsbruck, Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik
(2024) Cividale del Friuli, Festival Musica Cortese
(2024) Nova Gorica, Festival Flores Musicae
(2024) Celje, Seviqc festival
(2024) Basel, Scelsi Festival
(2023) Basel, Erasmus klingt! Lab Festival
(2023) London, London International Festival of Early Music
(2023) Soteska, Seviqc festival
(2023) Radovljica, Festival Radovljica
(2022) Tel Aviv
(2022) Jerusalem
(2022) Nes Ziona
(2022) Haifa
(2021) Ljubljana, Cankarjev dom
(2021) Varaždin, Varaždinske barokne večeri

FOCUS
Specialisation in Italian Trecento, Renaissance, early and high Baroque, and contemporary music
recorder, dulcian (Renaissance bassoon), Baroque bassoon
active as a soloist and chamber musician

PROJECTS
(2025) Brummen und Blasen – Forum Frühe Musik ReRenaissance
(2025) Phantasma: Heaven and Hell – York Early Music Festival
(2024) From Royal Courts to the Stage: The Musical Pulse of London

DISCOGRAPHY
Samó drobec modrega – Brina Jež Brezavšček
Ponotranjene razsežnosti – Brina Jež Brezavšček
Accursio Cortese – Portrait CD (in preparation)

ACHIEVEMENTS
(2024) York, EUBO Development Trust for the Most Promising Young Artist/s specialising in the Baroque repertoire
(2022) London – London International Festival of Early Music, First Prize
(2021) Varaždin – Ivan Werner Award for artistic achievement (solo performance)
(2020) Tel Aviv Recorder Festival – First Prize (solo category)
(2020) Tel Aviv Recorder Festival – First Prize for best interpretation of an Israeli composition
(2016) Graz – European Recorder Players Society Competition, First Prize
(2010) TEMSIG – Recorder Competition, First Prize
(2009) TEMSIG – Chamber Music (wind ensembles), Second Prize
(2007) TEMSIG – Recorder Competition, First Prize

AFFILIATIONS
ensemble memberships
Self-employed musician in Switzerland
teaching at Küttigen-Biberstein Music School
artistic director of ensemble Bastion
member of Capella Helvetica

COLLABORATIONS
Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra
Capricornus Consort Basel
Musica Cubicularis

WEBSITE
www.marusabrezavscek.com

FACEBOOK
https://www.facebook.com/marusabrezavscek/

VIDEOS
Christoph Graupner - Ouverture-Suite for Recorder, Strings and Continuo in F major, GWV 447
Ensemble Pampinea - Saltarello
Ensemble Bastion / Arcangelo Corelli, Sonata Nr. 4, op. 5 / Ornamentation by Johan Helmich Roman