About Eva
Eva Jurgec is a classically trained oboist, a self-employed culture worker, a multi-instrumentalist and a composer with extended experience in the fields of orchestral and chamber music. She is an oboe and music teacher at Waldorf School Ljubljana. A recipient of the Prešeren Award for students, of the Škerjanc Award and of accolades at national music competitions (1st, 2nd and 3rd prize at TEMSIG competition for young musicians), Jurgec gave three solo performances with the orchestra of the Ljubljana Music Academy. She has cooperated with the Slovenian Police Orchestra as the 1st solo oboist and with the orchestras of the Slovenian Philharmonics, public broadcaster RTV Slovenija, the Ljubljana Opera House, with the Nova Savitra orchestra and a number of brass orchestras. During her student years she was engaged strongly in various chamber ensembles (woodwind quintet, woodwind trio, baroque quartet, duo with accordion, duo with piano etc.) and in organising concerts with these ensembles. She was also a member of the Symbolic Orchestra, considered one of the most interesting musical phenomena in Slovenia in recent years, and of the JPD ensemble, which performed original instrumental and vocal music. She presently performs in Autetno, an ensemble aiming to perform folk music in an authentic manner, and has also been focusing of late on composing and performing original pieces, the examples including the PIK project and notably the SOMNUS project (Australia – November 2019),
the MIROVANJA/TRANQULITIES project (a multimedia suite), the ZGODBE NA PIH/WINDPLAYERS STORIES project, the fusion of folk and classical music (the SEVDAH – KLASIK project), classical music performances (NEUSAHLJIVI BACH, THE FEAST OF MUSICAL IMPRESSIONS, REFLECTIONS ON BACH), projects featuring original music (NEKJE NAD MEGLAMI /SOMEWHERE ABOVE THE MIST, SHEKINAH) and various unique educational and adult-learning arts projects (Orkestrion – an inclusive orchestra, the Kinobalon concert, Zvenobjem, Umetnost na svobodi, etc., Kulturografija, Glasbenje, Glasbišče).
Jurgec is the head of music activities within the framework of Waldorf teacher training in Ljubljana and the founder and leader of Orkestrion project.
