OperArija (SI) Vrh Vrezec

Petra Vrh Vrezec, soprano, started her musical career at the age of seven by playing the piano and after ten years she upgraded it by learning solo singing at the Ribnica Lower Music School and at the Secondary School of Music and Ballet in Ljubljana with prof. Edita Garčević Koželj and Marjan Trček. She then honed her coloratura soprano with internationally renowned baritone Ferdinand Radovan, soprano Norina Radovan and today with the world-renowned opera singer Dunja Vejzović in Zagreb and by participating in master classes (Edita Gruberova, Dunja Vejzović, Marcos Fic). During her school years she received several gold and silver awards, prizes at national and international competitions. She regularly collaborates with the SNG Opera and Ballet Ljubljana, where between 2013 and 2021 she recreated the roles of Queen of the Night (Magic Flute), Ninon (Gorenjski slavček), Oscar (A masked Ball), Adele (The Bat) and Minerva (Orpheus in the Underworld). As a concert singer she has performed with numerous orchestras and chamber ensembles throughout Slovenia and Croatia. Since the autumn of 2016 she has also performed her own children's, youth and adult opera performances, with which she breaks taboos about opera. In recent years she has connected her second profession, biology, with a music at various concerts and performances (Bird Singing - a challenge for composers, Nature in Music). She released her first Ave Maria CD last year.

Al Vrezec, baritone, began his singing studies at the age of 19 in private lessons with the world-renowned baritone Ferdinand Radovan. He also improved his singing skills by actively participating in singing seminars in Croatia, Italy, and Slovenia. In addition to Radovan he also studied with Carlos Montane, Jelena Hafner-Radovan, Alessandro Svab, Norina Radovan and Dunja Vejzović. He has participated in several concerts, productions and opera performances in Slovenia, Croatia, and Italy. He recreated the roles of Eisenstein, dr. Falke and Frank (The Bat), Don Basilia (The Barber of Seville) and Count Almaviva (concert performance of The Marriage of Figaro). In 2016 together with soprano and wife Petra Vrh Vrezec he prepared an educational performance for children, The First Encounter with Opera. This was followed in 2018 by the play Teenage Barber directed by Zvone Šedlbauer. Both performances have already experienced several repetitions at the Ljubljana Opera House and beyond. Between 2013 and 2021 with soprano Petra Vrh Vrezec and various organists he performed several sacral recitals of Ave Maria, which were the introduction to the creation of the CD. In addition, he works as a researcher at the National Institute of Biology, as a curator at the Natural History Museum of Slovenia and as an assistant professor he is habilitated at the University of Ljubljana.

Gregor Klančič, choirmaster and organist, began his music education at the Nova Gorica Secondary School and the Organ School in Nova Gorica (Prof. Hubert Bergant). He continued his studies at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana, where he graduated from the Department of Music Pedagogy and Church Music (organ with Assistant Professor Renati Bauer). He led several different choirs and choirs. He regularly participates in summer singing seminars organized by ZCPZ - Trieste. From 1993 to 2012 he was a member of the Slovenian Chamber Choir - now the Slovenian Philharmonic Choir, between 2004 and 2012 he worked as an assistant choirmaster. He has had several solo concerts with the choir. In 2018 he was the assistant director of the Slovenian Philharmonic for the choir and the artistic director of the Slovenian Philharmonic Choir and in May 2020 he took over this position again. From 2011 to 2019 he designed the Sacral Subscription concert cycle as part of KD Schellenburg. He performed several vocal-instrumental concerts with the Consortium musicum choir as part of his subscription. He is the head of music at the Archdiocese of Ljubljana. He has been working as an organist in the Ljubljana Cathedral since 1999 and leads the choir of theologians of the Ljubljana Seminary. He is the principal and professor at the Organ School in Ljubljana. As an organist he has given concerts in Slovenia, Croatia, France, Germany, and Italy. He has performed with the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra, numerous vocal soloists, instrumentalists, and choirs: the Slovenian Philharmonic Choir, the Consortium musicum choir and orchestra, the Glasbena matica choir, the Ipavska Chamber Choir, etc.

Video

Cesar Franck (1822-1890): AVE MARIA (duet)

Giulio Caccini (1551-1618): AVE MARIA

Franz Schubert: Ave Maria

Cesar Franck: AVE MARIA

Glasba povezuje, Radio Slovenija, 16.5.2020

Zopera - komični koncert

Press

Lepota božjega materinstva (Družina, 1.5.2022)

Med glasbo, naravo in korono (Trobla, glasilo občina Velike Lašče, 1.12.2021, pages 34-35)

Gozdna kopel krepi imunski sistem / Ptičje petje – glasbeni navdih (Posavski obzornik, 7.9.2021)

Prvo srečanje z opero (Festival Junij v Ljubljani, 18.6.2021)

Noč, ko imajo muzeji svojo moč (Trobla, glasilo občina Velike Lašče, 4.7.2018, pages 39)

Poznate izjemnega velikolaškega skladatelja Josipa Pavčiča? (Trobla, glasilo občina Velike Lašče, 2.11.2018, page 19)