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Boštjan Lipovšek
Horn player Boštjan Lipovšek received his first music lessons from his brother and father, both horn players. He continued his education first at the Secondary School of Music and Ballet and then at the Ljubljana Academy of Music with prof. Jože Falout. He also graduated from it and completed his postgraduate studies. He studied with Radovan Vlatković at the Salzburg Mozarteum. While studying in Ljubljana, he received the Prešeren Student Award for performing Strauss’s 1st Concerto for Horn and Orchestra with the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra. He immediately took the position of solo horn player in this orchestra. As a soloist, he regularly performs mainly with the orchestra of the Slovenian Radio and Television, as well as with foreign orchestras. Thus, as a soloist, he collaborated with conductors such as Anton Nanut, Uroš Lajovic, Marko Letonja, En Shao, David de Villiers, S. Pelegrino Amato, Gary Brain, Amy Anderson, Yakov Kreizberg, Sian Edwards. As an orchestral soloist, he has toured with the National Opera Orchestra of La Monnaie in Brussels, the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic, and most recently with the Budapest Festival Orchestra. In 2001, he won the Citta di Porcia international competition. Since 1999 he has been an assistant professor, and since 2004 he has been lecturing as an assistant professor at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana. In 2005, he responded to an invitation from Zagreb and, as an assistant professor, also lectures at the Academy of Music there. In 2008, he received the Prešeren Fund Award for his artistic achievements in the field of music.
So far, five CDs have been released by ZKP RTV Slovenije; three solo and two in chamber ensembles (Slovenian Brass Quintet and Ariart Wind Quintet), and the Salzburg Rarity CD was released by Juvavum Brass with the German publishing house Profil. He has recorded concerts by R. Strauss and WA Mozart, R. Glier, J. Power with the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, of which he has been a member for over ten years.