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As a specialist in historical bassoon, Jane
Gower performs extensively throughout
Europe, the USA and Australia. She is very
active in chamber music and as a soloist,
in addition to appearing with the finest
early music orchestras, and has a growing
collection of original instruments on
which she also performs. Jane received
her Bachelor of Music, with high distinction,
from the Canberra School of Music
in 1992. Subsequently, she was awarded
a Netherlands Government Scholarship
and Queens Trust grant for study of historical
bassoon at the Royal Conservatory
in The Hague, The Netherlands, where she
completed her performance diploma in
early music in 1996, with high distinction.
Up until this time she performed with The
Sydney Symphony Orchestra, The Australian
Chamber Orchestra and The Australia
Ensemble. In 2005 Jane was appointed principal
bassoonist of Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s
acclaimed orchestras, the English Baroque
Soloists and Orchestre Révolutionnaire et
Romantique. She has been principal bassoonist
with Jos van Immerseel’s orchestra
Anima Eterna for many years. She returns
regularly to her native Australia to perform
with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra,
Australian Bach Ensemble and Australian
Chamber Orchestra. Jane has presented
regular master classes at the Royal College
of Music, London, since 2007.
Matej Grahek
Matej Grahek je rojen leta 1974 v Trbovljah.
Je solist flavtist Slovenske filharmonije,
profesor na Srednji glasbeni šoli
Ljubljana in docent za flavto na Akademiji
za glasbo v Ljubljani, kjer je tudi opravil
podiplomski študiji pri prof. Fedji Ruplu.
Dve leti se je izpopolnjeval na salzburškem
Mozarteumu pri Ireni Grafenauer.
V času študija je prejel vrsto prvih nagrad
na tekmovanjih mladih glasbenikov v
Sloveniji in tedanji Jugoslaviji, 2001 pa
je bil finalist mednarodnega tekmovanja
EBU v Bratislavi. S pihalnim kvintetom
ArtVento se je v letu 2006 uvrstil v četrtfinale
mednarodnega tekmovanja ARD v
Münchnu. Kot solist nastopa s Slovensko
filharmonijo, z Big Bandom RTV Slovenija,
sodeluje pa tudi z različnimi komornimi
skupinami, s katerimi nastopa doma in v
tujini (Avstrija, Italija, Nemčija, Hrvaška,
Srbija, Madžarska, Češka, Nizozemska,
Španija in ZDA …). Matej Grahek je izdal
sedem zgoščenk, od tega štiri solistične.
Matej Grahek was born in 1974 in Trbovlje,
Slovenia. He is Principal flute of the Slovene
Philharmonics, Professor at the Ljubljana
School of Music and assistant Professor at
the Academy of Music in Ljubljana, where he
completed his postgraduate studies under
Professor Fedja Rupel. He later perfected his
knowledge at the Mozarteum in Salzburg
under the world renowned flautist Irena
Grafenauer. As a student Matej Grahek won
numerous first prizes at music competitions
for young musicians in Slovenia and former
Yugoslavia. In 2001 he was the finalist of
the International EBU Music Competition in
Bratislava, Slovakia. With the wind quintet
ArtVento Matej Grahek was quarterfinalist
of the ARD Music Competition in 2006.
Grahek regularly performs as soloist with
the Slovene Philharmonics and the RTV Slovenia
Big Band. Simultaneously he cooperates
with various chamber ensembles with
which he performs in Slovenia and abroad.
Matej Grahek has recorded seven records,
four as a soloist.