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Messa di Voce (SI)

Messa di Voce is a collective of musicians who met during their studies and formed an ensemble dedicated to bringing Early music to life in a fresh, engaging way. They have performed at international festivals such as Seviqc Brežice, Baroque Rendezvous and Kavč Festival, received excellent media reviews and been recorded and broadcast by RTV Slovenija. They give independent evening concerts (St. James’s Church, Ljubljana Town House), perform at State functions and collaborate with Glasbena mladina Slovenije, where they have presented numerous educational concerts in schools across Slovenia, inspiring children and teachers with live demonstrations of Early music. Entering the third year of their existence, they continue to enrich their concerts with a pedagogical approach and a synergy of artforms—most notably through the use of kamishibai, a Japanese paper theatre technique that visually complements and deepens the experience of their musical storytelling. Their mission remains to make Early music vibrant, human, and accessible to all.

 

Urška Cvetko is a recorder player with a master’s degree in music, as well as a music teacher and puppeteer. She studied recorder at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana, the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, and the Conservatorio “Luigi Cherubini” in Florence, where she graduated summa cum laude in 2015 in the class of Prof. David Bellugi. She is a multiple prize-winner at national and international competitions (TEMSIG, Premio Claudio Abbado, TARF Israel), and regularly continues her training with some of the most renowned musicians in her field, including Dorothee Oberlinger, Walter van Hauwe, Lorenzo Cavasanti and Pamela Thorby. She primarily performs chamber music – as a member of the trio Tres Pájaros, the early music ensembles Messa di Voce and Hymnia (Prešeren Award of the Academy of Music), the duo Vetrinki, and the international trio Chicas del David, with whom she has performed in Italy, Germany, Poland and Israel, and given a solo recital at the prestigious Maggio Musicale Fiorentino festival. Urška is also active as a teacher, performs in puppet and theatre productions, and composes original music for them. In recent years, her focus has been on early Baroque music.

 

Ajda Porenta is a baroque and classical violinist who in recent years has focused primarily on the performance of early music. She studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz with Prof. Priya Mitchell and at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana with Prof. Vasilij Meljnikov, where she received a Prešeren Award. She currently lives in the Netherlands, where she is further specialising in early music at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague with Prof. Enrico Gatti and Ryo Terakado. She has performed with numerous orchestras and ensembles, including the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra (also as a soloist), the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra, SNG Maribor, and the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, among others. As a member of various baroque ensembles, she has appeared at leading festivals such as the Utrecht Early Music Festival, the Tartini Festival and the Gli Incogniti Académie. With the ensemble Il Parrasio, she has been a finalist in several international competitions, and in the 2025/2026 season she will collaborate with conductor William Christie. Her artistic development is supported by the Municipality of Ljubljana and the Viktoria Foundation.

 

Izidor Erazem Grafenauer is a Slovenian guitarist and lutenist. He graduated from the Academy of Music in Ljubljana under Prof. Andrej Grafenauer and completed his specialist studies with Prof. Istvan Roemer at the Academy of Music in Zagreb. He studied lute with Prof. Tiziano Bagnati at the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory in Venice. He has won numerous first prizes at national and international competitions (TEMSIG, Murska Sobota Guitar Festival, Enrico Mercatali Competition, Fernando Sor Competition, among others), and has received two Prešeren Awards of the Academy of Music (for orchestral performance and for performances with the Hymnia Quartet). He performs as a soloist, as a soloist with orchestras (Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra, Maribor Opera Orchestra, Dubrovnik Chamber Orchestra, etc.), and as a chamber musician. He is active in the field of early music and historically informed performance, with particular attention to Slovenian composers, and also engages with flamenco music. Facebook

 

 

  • Briljantno sekcijo continua so sestavljali Franjo Bilić na čembalu, Izidor Erazem Grafenauer na teorbi, Mauro Colantonio na violi da gamba in violončelistka Dora Kuzmin Maković. (Branimir Pofuk, Večernji list, 6.9.2024)

  • Interpretacije so tehnično dovršene in razkrivajo sodelovanje vrhunskih glasbenikov, ki so se za pričujoči projekt zbrali v izjemno posrečeno zasedbo.(Tomaž Gržeta, Sigic.si, 2.6.2024)

  • V Folias Italianas despacio, Fandangu, Canarios, Marionas in Imposibles Santiaga de Murcie so se izvajalci izkazali z enotnim in razgibanim muziciranjem ter dali skladbam značaj, ki je spominjal na španski melos.Še posebno je ta temperament izražal Izidor Erazem Grafenauer, ki ima z njim izkušnje, saj smo ga lahko slišali že na festivalu Rasqueado.(Marina B.Žlender, Sigic.si, 22.8.2023)

  • Kitarski koncert št.1 v A-duru Maura Giulianija je v navdahnjeni izvedbi Grafenauerja poleg prefinjenega občutka za izdelano detajliranost, ki jo terja tovrstna klasicistična glasba, odseval tudi bolj virtuozni osebni pečat.Kitarist je določene konture fraziranja izostril tako, da je izzval dobršno mero kontrastnosti skozi dialog z orkestrom, kar je glasbeni stavek z bolj enoznačnimi harmonskimi prijemi spremenilo v presenetljivo zanimivo glasbeno materijo.(Maia Juvanc, Sigic.si, 8.7.2022)

  • Petra Vidmar in Izidor Erazem Grafenauer se na njem predstavita kot virtuoza na svojih glasbilih in se kot duo izražata izjemno homogeno in koherentno.Žlahtne, povedne in očarljive interpretacije podajata gladko, s prefinjeno oblikovanim in harmonično zlitim tonom sicer kontrastnih glasbil ter s posebno pozornostjo do detajlov, fraz in v njih ujete idejne zasnove skladb.(Tomaž Gržeta, Sigic.si, 19.3.2022)

  • Odličen izbor skladb ter zavzeta in profesionalna izvedba sta prispevala k prepričanju, da so večeri Koncertnega ateljeja resnično bistveni doprinos k poznavanju slovenske in tuje sodobne ustvarjalnosti.(Marina B.Žlender, Sigic.si, 30.6.2020)