SToP Slovene Percussion Project

Founded in 1999, the SToP Slovene Percussion Project is a percussion ensemble whose members aim to combine chamber music and experimentation with new music and diverse sounds and instruments. The group's projects include a broad range of musical events, which sometimes include theatre, and percussion workshops. All seven members of the group are young Slovene musicians, who individually play in the Slovene Philharmonic Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Slovene National Theatre Maribor as well as a range of different brass bands and chamber ensembles (eg MD7 Ensemble, Slavko Osterc Ensemble). They all also have solo careers.

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The members of the group Davor Plamberger, Barbara Kresnik, Matevž Bajde, Franci Krevh, Dejan Tamše, Tomaž Lojen and Damir Korošec, come from Maribor, Slovenj Gradec, Ljubljana, Celje and Velenje. The SToP repertoire consists of classical music, mostly written in the 20th and 21st centuries, as well as their own compositions and contemporary, electrical-acoustic music. The group also aims to bring well-known contemporary percussion works to the Slovenian stage as well as to participate in a variety of projects that incorporate different artistic genres from choral music to contemporary dance performances. Some compositions have been specially commissioned by StoP from Slovene and foreign contemporary composers.The group presents around 30 concerts each year, many of which are aimed at young audiences and have an educational purpose. The group strives to introduce to their audience, through their musical events and workshops, a broad variety of classical and ethnological instruments as well as unconventional instruments like kitchen utensils, car brakes, screws and hammers. The percussion group introduced such various instruments and different techniques of playing with the works of renowned composer Manfred Menke in a performance called Small Kitchen Music.

In 2007, StoP performed a new choral work Cantata according to St. Elisabeth, written by Andrej Misson, together with the NOVA women's choir, mixed choir Carinthia Cantat and the Adoramus men's choir in Kamnik. In 2009, it cooperated with a dance group at the 6th Balkan Dance Platform, which took place at Cankarjev dom. SToP also played works by E. Varèse with the Slowind Quintet at the Slowind festival in Ljubljana. In 2010, the group collaborated with the Japanese percussionist Haruka Fujii, with whom they went on a concert tour in Slovenia with performances that combined both the Asian and Slovenian drumming tradition. SToP has also played with the Slovene Philharmonic String Chamber Orchestrain Sombor (Croatia) and with the percussion group Bing Bang in Zagreb (Croatia). Several internationally-renowned percussionists and composers, including Evelyn Glennie, Igor Lešnik, Nebojša J Živkovič, Manfred Menke and Bernhard Wulff, have co-operated with SToP. The group toured Spain, Italy, Austria, the Czech Republik, Croatia, Montenegro and South Korea. It has also collaborated with the recognised Brazilian composer and percussionist Nay Rosauro and will be performing his works at scheduled upcoming concerts in October.

External links

SToP Slovene Percussion Project website

SToP Slovene Percussion Project

Repertoire and concerts

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