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The [[Cankarjev dom, Music Programme|Music Programme of Cankarjev dom Cultural and Congress Centre]] presents a rich assortment of different music events, including classical music of all styles, from symphonic to chamber, staged musical projects, and jazz, ethno and contemporary music concerts, all characterised by high quality and a contemporary and international spirit.  
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As part of its [[Cankarjev dom, Music Programme|Music Programme]], [[Cankarjev dom, Cultural and Congress Centre|Cankarjev dom]] (CD) presents a wide range of musical events, from opera and classical to jazz, roots and contemporary music. Almost all of its auditoriums and smaller venues are used for musical performance, with [[Cankarjev Dom/Gallus Hall|Gallus Hall]], generally considered to be the best symphonic stage in Slovenia in acoustic terms, being particularly suited to orchestral concerts and large-scale opera productions.
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The stage of [[Cankarjev dom, Cultural and Congress Centre|Cankarjev dom]]'s [[Cankarjev Dom/Gallus Hall|Gallus Hall]] meets high technical standards, thus facilitating both orchestral concerts and large-scale operatic and ballet productions, both touring productions and those prepared in co-production with Slovene national opera houses. With its excellent acoustics it is generally considered the best symphonic stage in Slovenia.
 
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==Classical music==
  
==Orchestral and chamber music==
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Slovenia's love of classical music is reflected in the sheer number of concerts staged by CD every season, and by the quality of the domestic and international orchestras, chamber groups and soloists it is able to attract. The wealth on offer is made easier to negotiate by being divided up into subscription series/season tickets, which enable audiences to pay up front and secure their seats for the type of classical music they wish to see across the season, which usually runs from October to May.
Programmes include regular orchestral subscription series featuring the [[Slovene Philharmonic Orchestra]], the [[RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra]] and foreign visiting orchestras, chamber music subscription series, larger opera productions, Predihano series of contemporary music, and other occasional concerts.
 
  
Symphonic concerts are organised regularly. The [[Slovene Philharmonic Orchestra]] presents Cankarjev dom's Blue and Orange Season Subscription Series, while the [[RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra]] stages 9 concerts in its symphonic cycle. Both orchestras also hold over 20 concerts for young audiences, provided with a commentary, in cooperation with [[Ljubljana Musical Youth]] and the Slovene branch of [[Jeunesses Musicales International (JMI), Slovenia|Jeunesses Musicales International (JMI)]]. Especially popular are the concerts performed within Cankarjev dom's Golden Season Subscription Series, which embrace world-renowned visiting international orchestras (Vienna Philharmonics, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Symphonic Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio, Staatskapelle Dresden, Gawandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Philharmonia Orchestra) with prominent conductors (L. Maazel, R. Chailly, L. Bernstein, S. Celibidache, S. Bychkov, J. E. Gardiner, K. Masur, F. Luisi, S. Rattle) and the most sought-after vocal and instrumental soloists of our time.
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The best-known of these series, and one of the longest-running, is the '''Gold Series''' (''Zlati abonma''), which is generally dedicated to larger-scale orchestral and symphonic performances. The list of orchestras to have appeared since 2013 includes (in alphabetical order) the BBC Philharmonic, the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Camerata Salzburg, the Czech Philharmonic, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Dresden Philharmonic, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra (with pianist Martha Argerich), the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, the Lahti Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico, the Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra, the Oslo Philharmonic, the Philharmonia Orchestra (London), the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Slovak Philharmonic, the Spanish National Orchestra, the Venice Baroque Orchestra and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra.
  
Cankarjev dom's chamber music programme is presented within the Silver Season Subscription Series – these concerts are often given in the halls of the [[Slovene Philharmonic]]. Some chamber concerts and pipe organ concerts are held in [[Cankarjev Dom/Gallus Hall|Gallus Hall]], mostly guest appearances by particularly compelling music figures. The annual Sound of Six Strings Series also features 4 evenings of guitar music in the [[Slovene Philharmonic]] Hall, while Cankarjev dom's programme also includes different chamber concerts by Slovene musicians for non-subscribers.
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The '''Silver Series''' (''Srebrni abonma'') generally encompasses chamber music and soloists, while performances by the [[Slovene Philharmonic Orchestra]] were, until the 2020/21 season, organised under the '''Blue Series ''' (''Modri abonma'') and '''Orange Series''' (''Oranžni abonma''). These two series have been replaced by three new series: '''Philharmonic Classics''' (''Filharmonični klasični koncerti'' or FKK), '''Symphonic Masterpieces''' (''Same mogočne skladbe'' or SMS) and '''New Orchestral Works''' (''Sobodne orkestrske skladbe'' or SOS). Like their precedessor series, they take place at the Philharmonic Hall, around ten minutes' walk from Cankarjev dom. Unfortunately, the first season was more or less wiped out by the second Covid-19 lockdown – indeed, all subscription series (if not every concert) were cancelled for the 2020/21 season, following on from the curtailment of the previous season.
  
===Predihano series of concerts===
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CD produces two further series: the ''Kromatika Series''', for concerts by the [[RTV Symphony Orchestra]], and '''Youth to Youth''', a platform for young and emerging classical music talents (although this is a season of concerts rather than a "subscription" series in the strict sense).
The Predihano Series of New Music is devoted to contemporary music practices. Each year it brings 6 concert events: different chamber and vocal concerts, often combined with pedagogical presentations of contemporary music or interviews with composers or performers of New Music. The programme covers the main modernistic pieces (P. Boulez, L. Berio) from the second half of the 20th century and contemporary works, featuring important Slovene musicians ([[Karmina Šilec]], [[Nina Prešiček]], [[Marko Hatlak]], [[Ernö Sebastian]]) and foreign ensembles (Tambucco, Insomnio). The 2010 festival was thematically linked to the composers of the so-called "spectral school". The artistic leader of the Predihano Series was Steven Loy, who conducted the newly formed ensemble ''Neofonia''. In 2011 the series brought light to the Italian composer Luigi Nono.
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Cankarjev dom also provides venues for the annual [[Ljubljana Festival]], which takes place between June and September.
  
 
==Opera==
 
==Opera==
One opera production per year is staged in [[Cankarjev Dom/Gallus Hall|Gallus Hall]], which provides better technical possibilities than the smaller stages of the Slovene national opera houses. Mostly these productions are co-productions with the [[Slovene National Theatre Opera and Ballet Ljubljana]] and/or the [[Slovene National Theatre Maribor]]. In recent years the most notable event was the first performance of Offenbach's romantic opera ''Rhine Nymphs''.
 
  
==Vocal music==
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CD generally stages one opera production per season in the [[Cankarjev Dom/Gallus Hall|Gallus Hall]], which provides better technical possibilities than the smaller stages of the Slovenian national opera houses. Highlights include productions of Verdi's ''Aida'' in 2014 and Puccini's ''Turandot'' in 2016 (both by [[Slovene National Theatre Maribor|SNG Maribor]]; the Verdi operas ''Macbeth'' and ''Othello'' by the Third World Bunfight Performing Company from South Africa and [[Slovene National Theatre Opera and Ballet Ljubljana|SNG Opera in Balet Ljubljana]], respectively, which formed part of the Shakespeare Festival (2015/16); ''Shockheaded Peter'', an operetta performed by cult British band The Tiger Lilies (2017, in collaboration with [[Slovene National Theatre Nova Gorica|SNG Nova Gorica]]);  ''The Snow Queen'', a fairytale opera for children by Matthew King (2019/20, in collaboration with the [[Slovenian Chamber Music Theatre]] and [[Glasbena matica Ljubljana]]. The Covid-19 emergency forced the cancellation of a production of Richard Strauss's ''Elektra'' by HNK Zajc (Rijeka, Croatia), which had been scheduled for June 2020.
Vocal music is represented in concerts by Slovene groups and guest appearances by foreign choirs or vocal groups given in [[Cankarjev Dom/Gallus Hall|Gallus Hall]] or in the halls of the [[Slovene Philharmonic]]. A regular annual concert is held by the [[Academic Choir Tone Tomšič, University of Ljubljana]], and other Slovene vocal groups appear occasionally.  
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SNG Maribor's productions of ''Aida'' and ''Turandot'' were both revived in January 2019 for the '''Maribor Is Ours''' festival, which celebrated the 100th anniversary of the founding of the theatre. CD's collaboration with SNG Maribor has been strong over the years across theatre, opera and dance programmes.
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==Jazz, roots, experimental and improvised music==
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CD organises, produces and hosts a very wide range of contemporary music of all types throughout the year. It has been the main organiser of [[Ljubljana Jazz Festival]] since 1982 (although the festival's roots go back much further, to 1960), provides stages for the annual [[Druga Godba Festival|Druga Godba]] international music festival in May, and runs two popular seasonal series focused on jazz, roots, folk, experimental and cross-genre music: the '''Music of the World''' (''Glasbe sveta''') series and '''Tuesday Clubbing''' (''Cankarjevi torki''', also known as the Tuesday Series), with a slightly stronger emphasis on jazz and improvisation. Both series can be accessed via their respective season tickets or ''abonmaji'', or on a concert-by-concert basis. The Music of the World concerts are staged across CD's various auditoriums, while the Tuesday Series takes place in the more intimate surroundings of the CD Club.
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The '''Snowdrops and Primroses Festival''' (''Zvončki in trobentice''), inaugurated in 2015, is a one-day festival that showcases local jazz artists. It is part of the Tuesday Clubbing series and takes place in February. Owing to the Covid-19 pandemic, the festival was forced online in 2020, like most of the contemporary music output in 2020 and 2021 (with the notable exception of the 2020 Ljubljana Jazz Festival). However, the jazz and world music department's agility in responding to events and its ability to produce top-quality streaming content drew wide praise from across the arts world in Slovenia.
  
==Rock, jazz, ethno and experimental music==
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Two further events are worth mentioning here: the 4th European Jazz Conference, co-produced by CD and Europe Jazz Network and supported by the [[Ministry of Culture]], the [[Municipality of Ljubljana|City of Ljubljana]] and the Creative Europe – MEDIA Programme, which took place in September 2017 and included a three-day festival of Slovenian jazz in the CD Club; and the John Zorn-curated Stone Series (2018/19) of seven concerts, which formed part of the Tuesday Clubbing series for that season.
The genres of rock, jazz, ethno, experimental and different fusions of these genres are presented within the series Tuesday Clubbing. Every year a [[Ljubljana Jazz Festival|Jazz festival]] is organised at Cankarjev dom, featuring some of the most important international jazz musicians. In cooperation with the [[Café Teater]] Cankarjev dom hosts also the annual [[La Vie en Rose International Evening of Chansons]].
 
 
Cankarjev dom also regularly features groups that are dedicated to upholding the Slovene folklore tradition. [[Cankarjev Dom/Gallus Hall|Gallus Hall]] hosts the regular annual concert of the [[France Marolt Student Folk Dance Group]], as well as other folklore groups. The Music Programme of Cankarjev dom regularly involves guest appearances by foreign folklore groups and has introduced Slovene audiences to the rich tradition of world folk cultures.
 
  
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==Other music==
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CD stages the regular annual concerts of the [[Academic Choir Tone Tomšič, University of Ljubljana|Tone Tomšič Academic Choir]], based at the [[University of Ljubljana]], and the [[France Marolt Student Folk Dance Group]]. It also hosts other performances by Slovenian choirs and vocal groups on an occasional basis.
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==See also==
 
==See also==
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* [[Cankarjev Dom/Gallus Hall]]
 
* [[Cankarjev Dom/Gallus Hall]]
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* [[Ljubljana Jazz Festival]]
 
Music festivals organised by [[Cankarjev dom, Cultural and Congress Centre]]
 
Music festivals organised by [[Cankarjev dom, Cultural and Congress Centre]]
 
* [[Ljubljana Jazz Festival]]
 
* [[Ljubljana Jazz Festival]]
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== External links ==
 
== External links ==
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*[https://www.cd-cc.si/en/culture/music Cankarjev dom, Music Programme website]
 
*[https://www.cd-cc.si/en/culture/music Cankarjev dom, Music Programme website]
  

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As part of its Music Programme, Cankarjev dom (CD) presents a wide range of musical events, from opera and classical to jazz, roots and contemporary music. Almost all of its auditoriums and smaller venues are used for musical performance, with Gallus Hall, generally considered to be the best symphonic stage in Slovenia in acoustic terms, being particularly suited to orchestral concerts and large-scale opera productions.


Classical music

Slovenia's love of classical music is reflected in the sheer number of concerts staged by CD every season, and by the quality of the domestic and international orchestras, chamber groups and soloists it is able to attract. The wealth on offer is made easier to negotiate by being divided up into subscription series/season tickets, which enable audiences to pay up front and secure their seats for the type of classical music they wish to see across the season, which usually runs from October to May.

The best-known of these series, and one of the longest-running, is the Gold Series (Zlati abonma), which is generally dedicated to larger-scale orchestral and symphonic performances. The list of orchestras to have appeared since 2013 includes (in alphabetical order) the BBC Philharmonic, the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Camerata Salzburg, the Czech Philharmonic, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Dresden Philharmonic, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra (with pianist Martha Argerich), the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, the Lahti Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico, the Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra, the Oslo Philharmonic, the Philharmonia Orchestra (London), the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Slovak Philharmonic, the Spanish National Orchestra, the Venice Baroque Orchestra and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra.

The Silver Series (Srebrni abonma) generally encompasses chamber music and soloists, while performances by the Slovene Philharmonic Orchestra were, until the 2020/21 season, organised under the Blue Series (Modri abonma) and Orange Series (Oranžni abonma). These two series have been replaced by three new series: Philharmonic Classics (Filharmonični klasični koncerti or FKK), Symphonic Masterpieces (Same mogočne skladbe or SMS) and New Orchestral Works (Sobodne orkestrske skladbe or SOS). Like their precedessor series, they take place at the Philharmonic Hall, around ten minutes' walk from Cankarjev dom. Unfortunately, the first season was more or less wiped out by the second Covid-19 lockdown – indeed, all subscription series (if not every concert) were cancelled for the 2020/21 season, following on from the curtailment of the previous season.

CD produces two further series: the Kromatika Series', for concerts by the RTV Symphony Orchestra, and Youth to Youth, a platform for young and emerging classical music talents (although this is a season of concerts rather than a "subscription" series in the strict sense). Cankarjev dom also provides venues for the annual Ljubljana Festival, which takes place between June and September.

Opera

CD generally stages one opera production per season in the Gallus Hall, which provides better technical possibilities than the smaller stages of the Slovenian national opera houses. Highlights include productions of Verdi's Aida in 2014 and Puccini's Turandot in 2016 (both by SNG Maribor; the Verdi operas Macbeth and Othello by the Third World Bunfight Performing Company from South Africa and SNG Opera in Balet Ljubljana, respectively, which formed part of the Shakespeare Festival (2015/16); Shockheaded Peter, an operetta performed by cult British band The Tiger Lilies (2017, in collaboration with SNG Nova Gorica); The Snow Queen, a fairytale opera for children by Matthew King (2019/20, in collaboration with the Slovenian Chamber Music Theatre and Glasbena matica Ljubljana. The Covid-19 emergency forced the cancellation of a production of Richard Strauss's Elektra by HNK Zajc (Rijeka, Croatia), which had been scheduled for June 2020.

SNG Maribor's productions of Aida and Turandot were both revived in January 2019 for the Maribor Is Ours festival, which celebrated the 100th anniversary of the founding of the theatre. CD's collaboration with SNG Maribor has been strong over the years across theatre, opera and dance programmes.

Jazz, roots, experimental and improvised music

CD organises, produces and hosts a very wide range of contemporary music of all types throughout the year. It has been the main organiser of Ljubljana Jazz Festival since 1982 (although the festival's roots go back much further, to 1960), provides stages for the annual Druga Godba international music festival in May, and runs two popular seasonal series focused on jazz, roots, folk, experimental and cross-genre music: the Music of the World (Glasbe sveta) series and Tuesday Clubbing (Cankarjevi torki, also known as the Tuesday Series), with a slightly stronger emphasis on jazz and improvisation. Both series can be accessed via their respective season tickets or abonmaji, or on a concert-by-concert basis. The Music of the World concerts are staged across CD's various auditoriums, while the Tuesday Series takes place in the more intimate surroundings of the CD Club.

The Snowdrops and Primroses Festival (Zvončki in trobentice), inaugurated in 2015, is a one-day festival that showcases local jazz artists. It is part of the Tuesday Clubbing series and takes place in February. Owing to the Covid-19 pandemic, the festival was forced online in 2020, like most of the contemporary music output in 2020 and 2021 (with the notable exception of the 2020 Ljubljana Jazz Festival). However, the jazz and world music department's agility in responding to events and its ability to produce top-quality streaming content drew wide praise from across the arts world in Slovenia.

Two further events are worth mentioning here: the 4th European Jazz Conference, co-produced by CD and Europe Jazz Network and supported by the Ministry of Culture, the City of Ljubljana and the Creative Europe – MEDIA Programme, which took place in September 2017 and included a three-day festival of Slovenian jazz in the CD Club; and the John Zorn-curated Stone Series (2018/19) of seven concerts, which formed part of the Tuesday Clubbing series for that season.

Other music

CD stages the regular annual concerts of the Tone Tomšič Academic Choir, based at the University of Ljubljana, and the France Marolt Student Folk Dance Group. It also hosts other performances by Slovenian choirs and vocal groups on an occasional basis.

See also

Music festivals organised by Cankarjev dom, Cultural and Congress Centre

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