Meeting Legendary Maestros

Imagine narrow streets, old facades, green trees, endless vineyards, colorful meadows, bright sunshine, and natural springs. This is Vipava, the place where I grew up, playing under the trees and on the farm. In the countryside, we have everything we need, and people are exceptionally creative—even artistically inspired by their surroundings. Yet we had little […]

What a Single Day Can Teach You

This was my first experience of travelling between performances in order to conduct part of a concert in a different city. On June 10th, after a morning performance of Rossini’s L’Italiana in Algeri in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, I took an airport transfer to Venice, since the direct flights from Ljubljana did not work for me, […]