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Nina Presicek is a young Slovenian pianist, who brought a breath of fresh air to the Slovenian classical music stage, uncovering forgotten and fresh-sounding works by both Slovenian and foreign composers with energetic and sensitive performances.
She graduated from the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart and has completed the postgraduate programme at the same university and at the Conservatoire National de Toulouse in France.
During her studies she obtained her Masters degree in musicology at the Sorbonne in Paris, where she mainly investigated the impact of abstract expressionist movement to the music of Morton Feldman. In 2007 she received a scholarship from the International Nadia and Lili Boulanger Foundation.
As a soloist and chamber music partner, she regularly performs in Europe and beyond (Canada, USA, Eritrea, Brazil). She has been the guest of several festivals, such as Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele, the Warsaw Autumn, Tribuna Beograd, Rio Cello Encounter. She collaborates with many composers (Withold Szalonek, Jürg Wyttenbach, Lojze Lebic, Janez Maticic, Uros Rojko) and with many musicians from Slovenia and abroad (Mate Bekavac , Patricia Kopacinskaja, Mats Lidström, Matej Sarc , Ales Kacjan , Igor Mitrovic, Dejan Presicek, David Hall Johnson).
Last year she released a solo CD A breath of time, including key world piano music as well as outstanding works by Slovenian composers. This spring she premiered a piano concerto with the Radio symphony orchestra Ljubljana and the Jena symphony orchestra of Lojze Lebic, which is dedicated to her.
For every project she develops a story, creating a different music experience, including video and light installations. The last project Ondine was premiered at Kino Šiška. On this concert, the listeners witnessed a fusion of sounds: those of the piano, the ondes Martenot and tape. The music was ensconced in an abstract space with video created by Neven Korda, a well-known Slovenian video artist.
In the years 2007-2009 she has been a lecturer for music history at the University of Maribor. Currently she is teaching at the conservatory of music in Ljubljana.
Nina Prešiček
