Sonc Festival is an international chamber music festival in Slovenia, founded in 2016 by violinist Tanja Sonc.
“I founded the festival with a great desire to create chamber music at a high level in my home environment.”
“I want to show the beauty of Slovenia to musicians from abroad, to present our culture and cuisine, and to introduce classical music to the local audience. I have learned a lot during my studies at home and abroad, so I want to share this knowledge and bring something valuable back to my society. I believe that I can bring a lot of positive energy, motivation for young people and enliven summer evenings with the Sonc Festival concerts. Music connects people and we need it more than ever nowadays, because it is a universal language all over the world, understood by everyone.”
Tanja Sonc, Founder and Artistic Director
Tanja is a prize-winner of numerous national and international competitions. Among others, she is the winner of the Brahms Competition in Pörtschach (Austria), in 2015 she won the 3rd prize at the “Kiwanis Wettbewerb Zürich” and in 2016 she was the winner of the “New Stars Competition”. After studying in Ljubljana and Salzburg, she completed her second Master’s degree in Zurich at the ZHdK in 2017 with honours. As a soloist, she has collaborated with many renowned orchestras (Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra, RTV Orchestra, Zagreb Soloists, HRTV Orchestra, etc.). In the 2017/2018 season, she became a member of the “Zürcher Kammerorchester”.
In 2017, Boštjan Lipovšek, a professor at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana and Zagreb and solo hornist of the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, joined the festival as artistic director and performer.
“It would be hard to describe in words the feelings and, above all, the impatience that overwhelm me just before our musical reunion in Radeče.
Just as I, then a curious child or young man, was part of this place at the confluence of the Sopot and the Sava rivers, so this place has always remained part of me. And hence all the excitement and enthusiasm in preparation for I don’t know which one in a row (the numbers don’t matter…) Sonc Festival….A festival that gives, gives back, unites and connects…
It is an immense pleasure for me to be able to (co)design the programme and some other organisational details, but above all I look forward to meeting my musical colleagues again and again, first of all Tanja, but also all the people you will see written in the concert sheets and really, up close and live, so close that you could almost touch them (quite unusual for the time we live in…) and hear them from the concert stage. To meet all those who will be sitting on the other side of the stage is of special value.
It is beautiful to feel how music connects everyone to unprecedented dimensions. It is nice to be gratefully aware of all (or at least part of all) that has been received from one’s home environment, and it is even nicer to return it, or at least part of it, to that environment…. And it is even more beautiful to feel that this return is so warmly and beautifully received by one’s own neighbours, friends, acquaintances and all those who allow art and music to be a major part of a few consecutive days in our Radeče.”
Boštjan Lipovšek, artistic director
Boštjan Lipovšek comes from a musical family that has produced several horn players over the years. His first mentors were his father and brother, and he continued his musical education at the Ljubljana Academy of Music under Prof. Jože Falout. In whose class he graduated and completed his postgraduate studies. He studied with Radovan Vlatković at the Salzburg Mozarteum. During his studies in Ljubljana, he received the student “Prešeren Prize” for his performance of Strauss’s 1st Concerto for Horn and Orchestra with the RTV Symphony Orchestra. Immediately afterwards he took up the position of solo horn in the orchestra.
In 1999 he began teaching as an assistant professor at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana, where he now supervises the younger generations of students as a full professor. In 2005, at the invitation of the Zagreb Academy of Music, he began to lecture as an assistant professor at that institution of higher education. Boštjan was awarded the Prešeren Fund Prize in 2008.
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Concerts
Matinee “The Cricket and the Ant”
Thursday, 29.6.2023 at 10.30
Culture Centre Radeče
Concert I. Ethno
Friday, 30.6.2023 at 19.30
St. Peter’s Church, Radeče
Concert II. French Elegance
Saturday, 1.7.2023 at 19.30
St. Peter’s Church, Radeče
Concert III. Serenade
Sunday, 2.7.2023 at 19.30
St. Peter’s Church, Radeče
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Contact

Kulturno umetniško društvo Sonc
Cesta za gradom 4a
1433 Radeče
Donations can be made to:
IBAN: SI56 6100 0001 6378 894
REFERENCE: SI 00 05032017
SWIFT: HDELSI22
For more info:
041 775 844