musica cubicularis (SI)

musica cubicularis (SI)

Žiga Faganel: violin
Domen Marinčič: viol
Tomaž Sevšek: harpsichord
 

http://harmonia.antiqua.si/
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Begun as a trio in 2004, musica cubicularis soon developed into a dynamic period-instruments ensemble of flexible size. Their main interest lies in renaissance, baroque and classical music on appropriate period instruments, and their programmes often include lesser-known music and works still unavailable in modern editions. The ensemble has appeared at festivals in Slovenia, Italy, Germany and Spain, collaborating with singers, string players, lutenists, harpsichordists, harpists, pianists, flautists, recorder players, cornettists, sackbut players, dancers, actors and a jazz saxophonist. Their first recording project was a programme of Slovenian baroque music for Radio Slovenia and the Musicological Institute of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. In 2009 this was followed by a CD of Tartini's sonatas with violinist Žiga Faganel. Their latest CD features live recordings from the second and third season of their concert series HARMONIA CONCERTANS – Early Music on the New Square.

We were enchanted by the musicianship in a suitable style with pure intonation that flowed almost without vibrato in the soft voice of baroque violins.
(Mihael Paš, 3rd Programme ARS Radio Slovenia, 1st of June 2011)

Freshness was insured for the music as an expressive thoughtfulness connected the performers. Musica Cubicularis [...] works with an undoubtedly stylistic- technical, in this case, string comprehension.
(Jure Dobovišek, Delo 11th of August 2010)

With the enterprising drive of the ensemble that has excellent support through research musicology, things have started to move around here.
(Jure Dobovišek, Delo, 28th of July 2009)

Žiga Faganel

Žiga Faganel studied violin with Alive Schoenfeld at the Thornton School of Music in the USC University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He perfected himself with Rainer Küchl and Peter Götzl in Austria. He has proven himself on several competitions, also as a member of the string quartet Tetraktys. He was a concertmaster of Slovenian and international youth orchestras and is now a member of the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra and the String Quartet of the Slovenian Philharmonic. In 2009 he recorded CD of violin sonatas of Giuseppe Tartini along with Tomaž Sevšek and Domen Marinčič. These years he performs with the ensemble Musica Cubicularis (Choregie Festival, Velenje Festival, Portotož Auditorium, Fantasies under the Celje Ceiling, Sounds of Classical Music on the Ljubljana Castle, Days of Olden Music, Radovljica Festival, HARMONIA CONCERTANS – Old Music on a New Square). He plays the baroque violin of an unknown master from South Germany from the first half of the 18th century.

Domen Marinčič

Domen Marinčič began his music career with a violoncello and dedicated himself to old music early on. He studied violo da gamba with Hartig Groth in Nürnberg and with Phillip Pierlot at the Hochschule für Musik Trossingen. Furthermore, he graduated with honours in harpsichord and finished post-graduate studies in thorough bass. He received the highest award at the First International Viola da Gamba Competition Bach-Abel in Cöthen in 1997. He co-created the Slovenian ensemble for old music Musica Cubicularis and the Harmonia Antiqua Labacensis institution. For many years he was a member of the Belgium ensemble Ricercar Consort and now he collaborates a great deal with the Ensemble Phoenix Munich and the flutist Stefan Temmingh. He performs on established festivals all over Europe (Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Croatia, Italy, Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland) and has collaborated in recording more than twenty CDs for publishers such as Harmonia Mundi France, Aeolus, Ricercar and Oehms Classics.

Tomaž Sevšek

Tomaž Sevšek studied the organ with Zsigmond Szathmáry and the harpsichord with Robert Hill at the Musikhochschule Freiburg. He later enrolled for one year as an exchange student at the Eastman School of Music, Rochester NY, where he studied with David Higgs and Arthur Haas. In 2003 he finished post-graduate organ studies in Freiburg and graduated in harpsichord. He successfully performs at home and abroad (Germany, Austria, Italy, France, Spain, USA) and regularly collaborates with the String Orchestra of the Slovenian Philharmonic. For numerous years he worked as a principal secretary of the TEMSIG commission (Commission for Music and Ballet Competitions) and as president of the Slovenian Organ Society. These days he also studies a forgotten instrument – a French concert harmonium (Harmonium d’Art).