Messa di Voce (SI)

Urška Cvetko is a master musician on the recorder. She studied at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana, at the University of Music and Fine Arts in Graz and the Conservatory of Firenze "Luigi Cherubini", where in 2015 she received her master's degree "suma cum laude". She is a multiple winner of domestic and foreign competitions (TEMSIG, Premio Claudio Abbado - 2015, TARF Israel - 2018) and regularly trains with some of the most penetrating musicians in her field: Dorothee Oberlinger, Pamela Thorby, Walter Van Hauwe, Lorenzo Cavasanti, etc. She is a member of the Hymnia Early Music Ensemble (Prešeren Award of the Academy of Music) and the international trio Chicas del David, with which they perform in Italy, Germany, Poland, Israel, etc. As part of the prestigious Maggio Musicale Fiorentino they had a full-length concert at the Museum Bardini in Florence and taught and gave concerts in Tuscan primary schools. Urška also regularly teaches and conducts music (HR, IT, SI) and master beak flute workshops within the resounding LMFL - Language and Music for Life, previously held by prof. David Bellugi. In the last year, he has been devoting himself mainly to the study of Renaissance and early Baroque music, from which the project Messa di Voce: Fantastic Baroque was born.

Mojca Jerman is a baroque and classical violinist. She recently completed her postgraduate studies in baroque violin in the class of Professor Enrico Gatti at the Bologna Conservatory of Music. Prior to 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 Fine Arts in Graz with Professor Priya Mitchell. She received the Prešeren Student Award for her artistic achievements during her studies. She performs mainly as a chamber and orchestral musician. She is a permanent member of the baroque trio Ensemble Tacet with flutist Katarina Nagode and harpsichordist Martina Okoliš and piano trio Rêverie with pianist Tanja Činč and cellist Katarina Leskovar. She also probes with the Zagreb Ensemble Antiphonus, the ensemble Harmonia Concertans under the artistic direction of Domen Marinčič and is an occasional member of the Insula Orchestra, which operates in Paris. He also performs in various Slovenian orchestras. He likes to upgrade and consolidate his knowledge at additional seminars and academies. In the past, she has attended several different orchestral academies such as the Cuban-European Youth Academy, the Haydn Accademia, and the Dartington International Summer School Orchestra. She is the recipient of the Italian Il Premio Nazionale delle Arti 2021 award in the category of early music.

Izidor Erazem Grafenauer graduated from the Academy of Music in Ljubljana with prof. Andrej Grafenauer, he completed his specialization studies with prof. Istvan Roemer to the Academy of Music in Zagreb. He completed his lute studies with prof. Titian Bagnati at the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory in Venice. He is the recipient of several first prizes at domestic and international competitions (Temsig, Mura Guitar Festival, Enrico Mercatalli concorso, Fernando Sor Competition ...) and two Prešeren Student Awards of the Academy of Music (for concerts with orchestra and concerts with the Hymnia Quartet). He performs as a soloist, as a soloist with orchestras (Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra, Maribor Opera Orchestra, String Chamber Orchestra of Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra) and as a chamber musician. He is active in the field of early music and authentic performing practice, pays special attention to the performance of music by Slovenian composers, and is also involved in flamenco.

Johanna Lopez Valencia studied recorder at the Antonio Maria Valencia Conservatory in Cali, where she obtained MA diploma as a Master in Musical with Maestro Hernando Jose Cobo and later François Dolmetsch, in Italy at Cherubini Conservatory in Florence with maestro David Bellugi, and in 2013 also began to study viola da gamba with maestro Paolo Biordi. She played as a soloist with A. M. Valencia orchestra under cuban conductor Pedro Michael Torres and the orchestra of the Arboledas Foundation under conductor Francesco Belli, participated in various festivals such as “Jornadas de la musica contemporanea”, “Maraton de Antonio Maria Valencia” and the first season of concerts “Beethoven 7:30”. She was part of recorder ensemble "Il Flautario", performing all over Colombia. She has twice won the Banco della Repubblica's "Jovenes Interpretes" competition (2007, 2009), third prize as part of trio in 2015 »Abbado Prize« competition, and Tel-Aviv TARF 2019 International Competition. She has participated in the Esteban Salas international festival of early music in Habana-Cuba (2007), "Barroca chiquitos" music festival in Bolivia (2009), Argentina (2000- 2009), Handel-Akademie Karlsruhe in Germany (2014), Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (2014), the Urbino music festival (2015) and other. She has performed all over South America, Italy, in Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Israel... with trio Chicas del David, San Felice ensemble and the Etruria Barocca ensemble. As a pedagogue, she has taught at the Antonio Maria Valencia conservatory, the Yamaha Colombia foundation and is currently teaching at Scuola di Musica Sesto Fiorentino Bruno Bartoletti.