Irena Grafenauer [SEP] place of birth
Irena Grafenauer
Irena Grafenauer, (born June 19, 1957 in Ljubljana, Slovenia), is a Slovenian flute player and soloist, a pupil of Boris Čampa, Karlheinz Zöller and Aurèle Nicolet.
Irena Grafenauer started her musical education at the age of 8. After graduating from the Academy of Music in Ljubljana in 1974, she continued her studies with Karlheinz Zöller and Aurèle Nicolet. She won First Prize in three international competitions: in Belgrade (1974), Geneva (1978) and Munich (1979). From
place in the study of contemporary cello music. On her LP's and CD's she collaborated with artists like Aleksandar Madžar, Nada Kecman, Irena Grafenauer and many others while she was playing cello works by Bach, Brahms, Debussy, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Ljubica Marić or Ivan Jevtić as well as cello concertos by Julius Klengel.
Teaching.
Xenia worked closely with young musicians over the past 20 years. She was a cello professor at the Zagreb Music Academy from 1985 to 1987, Belgrade Music Academy from 1987 to