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{{Infobox
| name                = Radovljica Festival
| local name          = Festival Radovljica
| logo          = Radovljica Festival 2010 (logo1).jpg 
| street              = Linhartov trg 1
| town                = SI-4240 Radovljica
| telephone           = 386 (0) 4 531 2291
| fax                 = 386 (0) 4 531 2291
| website             = http://www.festival-radovljica.si
| organised by          = Early Music Society Radovljica
| frequency = annual
| dates and duration  = August, 2 weeks
| duration weeks      = 31,32,33 (2012) 32,33,34 (2013) 32,33,34 (2014)
| festival dates      = 8.8.2015 - 23.8.2015, 6.8.2016 - 23.8.2016, 5.8.2017 - 23.8.2017, 4.8.2018 - 22.8.2018, 10.8.2019 - 25.8.2019, 7.8.2020 - 23.8.2020, 6.8.2021 - 22.8.2021, 5.8.2022 - 23.8.2022, 6.8.2023 - 31.8.2023, 10.08.2024 - 27.08.2024
| contacts = {{Contact
| name                = Marija Kolar
| role                = President and Technical Director
| email               = kolar.mija@gmail.com
}}{{Contact
| name                = Domen Marinčič
| role                = Artistic Director 
| email               = domen.marincic@web.de
}}
{{Contact
| name                = Nataša Cetinski
| role                = Public Relations Officer
| email               = natasa.cetinski@arsem.si
}}
| accounts            =
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Festival-Radovljica/137217989628323
}}

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{{Wide Image|Musica cubicularis - Barbara Kozelj - before the concert - Photo Jana Jocif.jpg}}

Launched in [[established::1982]], [[Radovljica Festival]] is the oldest early music festival in Slovenia. It regularly features internationally-renowned singers and instrumentalists, performing on period instruments and ensembles, such as Sequentia, Gothic Voices, Trio Mediaeval, the Rolf Lislevand Ensemble, Café Zimmermann, Sonatori della Gioiosa Marca, London Baroque and Ensemble Zefiro.

The 2011 edition of the festival presented a literary-music evening ''The Saga of Hallgerd'' by [[Svetlana Makarovič]] and [[Milko Lazar]] and international groups Die Singphoniker, Black Narcissus, , Zefiro, Sequentia, Lisa Rydberg and Gunnar Idenstam, James Bowman and Andrew Plant at the Radovljica Manor, while Yves Rechsteiner in Henri-Charles Caget interpreted the Jean-Philippe Rameau's arias and dance music at the Velesovo Church. A one-day vocal workshop was led by Ian Honeyman, an English tenor (also actor and pianist). 

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==Concerts, new works and education==
The Radovljica Festival features a wide scope of music, from reconstructions of performances from before the advent of musical notation through the most recent works of the 21st century.

The 2010 edition of the festival presented Slovene musicians ([[Barbara Kozelj]] and [[Ensemble musica cubicularis]] with [[Domen Marinčič]] and Stefan Temmingh, [[Trio Quo Vadis]]) as well as international groups Le Concert Brisé, The Harp Consort (Guernsey), Amphion Wind Octet, John Potter and Ariel Abramovich, La Colombina, Pino De Vittorio Ensemble, and the project ''Mahler Plays Mahler''. The festival closes with Benjamin Bagby's performance of the the Anglo-Saxon epic ''Beowulf''.

Radovljica Festival also commissions some new works by Slovene composers. In 2010 the new compositions by [[Nana Forte]] and [[Uroš Rojko]] were specially commissioned by the Radovljica Festival and premièred by [[Trio Quo Vadis]]: [[Uroš Rojko]] (clarinet), [[Klara Tomljanovič]] (guitar) and [[Luka Juhart]] (accordion).

In 2010 the festival hosted John Potter, a singer, author and vocal coach, who held a lecture on "Singing Early Music in the 21st Century" and led a one-day workshop for singers and vocal ensembles.

==International networking==
The Radovljica Festival is a member of the European Early Music Network (REMA).

== Venues ==
Concerts are held at the Radovljica manor, on Linhart Square, in St Peter's Church as well as in the Annunciation Church at the nearby village Velesovo, which since 2007 treasures a high-quality organ built by the Močnik organ workshop (modelled on an instrument by Bach's friend and preferred builder Zacharias Hildebrandt). A free bus is organised for visitors coming from Ljubljana and Kranj.

== See also ==
*[[Radovljica Early Music Society]]

== External links ==
*[http://www.festival-radovljica.si/en_index.html Radovljica Festival website] (in English)
* [http://www.rema-eemn.net/eng/ REMA network website] 
* [http://www.john-potter.co.uk/ John Potter website]

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