From the field of music, the awardees have been mainly composers and conductors, with the only instrumentalist being the flautist Irena Grafenauer.
We should also mention several concert pearls of the past year - the concert of the Symphony Orchestra RTV Slovenia with the famous pianist Ivo Pogorelić and the extraordinary concert on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of Anton Nanut, the long-year artistic leader and chief conductor of the Symphony Orchestra RTV Slovenia, with the guest Irena Grafenauer, one of the most respectable flutists in the world.
Irena Sendler | Niko Grafenauer | Irena Grafenauer | The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler | Irena Petkova | Irena Litvinovič | Irena Karpa |
His postgraduate studies were with Irena Grafenauer at the Mozarteum Salzburg University and with Wolfgang Schulz at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.
Meeting Ferenc Rados, Murray Perahia, Leon Fleisher, Arie Vardi, Alexander Lonquich, Ida Levin, Christoph Richter, Ksenija Jankovic, Irena Grafenauer and Sergio Azzolini, was very important for her.