Flores Musicae 2024 – Medieval and renaissance music festival
29.09.2024 at 18:00
Flores Musicae – Medieval and Renaissance Music Festival
In 2017, after six editions, the former festival entitled Days of Early Music, which succeeded the Court Music series, underwent a transformation and a revival. The festival, which takes place in Nova Gorica and in Goriška Brda, has been renamed to Flores Musicae, and Medieval music has been added to the existing Renaissance repertoire. Flores Musicae festival is the only ancient music festival in the western part of Slovenia and the only festival dedicated to medieval and Renaissance music in Slovenia.
Bor Zuljan – The artistic director of the festival Flores Musicae
The artistic director of the festival is the renowned Slovenian guitarist and lutenist Bor Zuljan, who completed his studies in guitar, lute, medieval music and music pedagogy at the Haute école de musique de Genève. The series of concerts of Slovenian and international musicians will illustrate the various traditions of the longest period in music history.
ADONIA – The story of Venus and Adonis through the eyes of the Italian Renaissance
ENSEMBLE PHAEDRUS (USA, Switzerland, Spain, Germany, Italy, Slovenia)
- Miriam Trevisan, voice
- Johanna Bartz, Renaissance transverse flute
- Charlotte Schneider, Renaissance transverse flute
- Luis Martinez Pueyo, Renaissance transverse flute
- Mara Winter, Renaissance transverse flute, artistic direction
- Bor Zuljan, lutes, colascione
- Massimiliano Dragoni, percussion
The Phaedrus Ensemble was founded in 2018 in Basel on the initiative of American flutist Mara Winter. The core of the group is a four-member consort of Renaissance transverse flutes, joined by Italian singer and percussionist Miriam Trevisan and Massimiliano Dragoni, as well as festival artistic director Bor Zuljan. They were united by a shared fascination with the powerful yet subtle beauty of Renaissance music and the humanist philosophy and rhetorical practices that gave music in the 16th and 17th centuries its distinctive character. With this in mind, the name ‘Phaedrus’ was chosen from Plato’s classic text in which Socrates argued that the art of rhetoric derives from madness, divine inspiration and above all love.
The group was a finalist in the Utrecht Early Music Ensemble Competition and released their first CD Adonia in 2022 on the Belgian label Passacaille, which was well received. They will also be performing this programme, which retells the ancient myth of Venus and Adonis through the eyes of the Italian Renaissance, at the Flores Musicae festival.
Free entrance.
Information and contact:
T: +386 5 335 40 13
E: pr@kulturnidom-ng.si
