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Padua and Florence as well as at the Conservatories of Venice and Adria.
Recipient of several fellowships, she has been co-managing the Internation-
al Composition Competition “Città di Udine” and the New Music Festival
“Contemporanea” since 2005 and is currently working on the recovery of
the XIX Century Italian documentation related to opera in Istrian and Dal-
matian territories.

Tomaž Svete (tomaz.svete@chello.at)
After completing his studies in composition and conducting at the Ljublja-
na’s Academy of Music, he enrolled at the Hochschule für Musik und dars-
tellende Kunst in Vienna, studying under Friedrich Cerha and Otmar Suit-
ner  (composition, diploma  summa  laude,  1986 and conducting, diploma,
1988). In 2006 he became professor of composition at the Faculty of Educa-
tion in Maribor. In the 1999 winter semester he lectured as a Fulbright pro-
fessor at the University of Hartford, USA. 
He has written ten operas, symphonic works and instrumental vocal works,
and has received several prestigious international and domestic prizes and
awards for his compositions. 

Jernej Weiss (jernej.weiss@ag.uni-lj.si)
studied musicology at the Department of Musicology of the University of
Ljubljana’s Faculty of Arts, and at the Institute of Musicology of the Uni-
versity of Regensburg. From 2005 to 2009 he was employed as an assis-
tant at the Department of Musicology in Ljubljana. Since 2011 he has been
editor-in-chief of Slovenia’s principal peer-reviewed musicological journal,
Muzikološki zbornik (Musicological Annual). He is on the editorial boards
of several scholarly journals and specialised publications and participates
in various domestic and international scientific projects. A full professor
of musicology at the University of Maribor since 2016, he has been a visit-
ing lecturer at the universities of Graz, Brno, Leipzig and Cardiff, among
others.
His research work covers issues related to music from the nineteenth centu-
ry to the present day, with a particular focus on the Slovene and Czech cul-
tural environments. He is the author of three monographs. Since 2016 he
has headed the international musicology symposium of the Slovenian Mu-
sic Days. He has been editor-in-chief of the new collection of monographic
studies Studia musicologica Labacensia since 2016.

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