Blaž Šparovec & Opera and Ballet Ljubljana Orchestra

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Stunning young clarinettist Blaž Šparovec and the Orchestra of Opera and Ballet Ljubljana will perform under the baton of En Shao in Cankarjev Dom.

Blaž Šparovec was Slovenia's representative at the Eurovision Young Musicians competition in 2012. Awarded in national and international competitions since 2004 and graduated from the Ljubljana Music and Ballet Conservatory in 2012, he is now continuing his clarinet studies at the Berlin University of the Arts under the tutelage of François Bende. On this occasion, he will present his talents in the Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra by Danish composer Carl Neilson.

In the second part of the concert, En Shao will relive the dazzling art of Richard Strauss’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra with the orchestra. The composer’s symphonic poem was inspired by the philosopher Nietzsche, and his eponymous work. The introductory piece will be Passacaglia and Chorale, which was written by one of the foremost Slovenian composers of the 20th century, Slavko Osterc. The work was composed in 1934 and made Osterc’s name in Europe; a few years later his work was performed at the Festival of World Music in Warsaw.