Tina Horvat, trumpet

completed her primary music education in Čakovec with prof. Vjeran Vidović (2006), and the High School of Music in Varaždin with prof. Darko Navoj (2010). He then enrolled at the Music Academy in Zagreb with Assoc. Marin Zokić (2010). She participated in the regional competition organized by HDGPP held in Bjelovar in 2010, where she won 1st prize. She won the 2nd prize at the National Competition for Music and Dance Students. In 2012, he won the 3rd prize at the Petar Konjović International Trumpet Competition in Belgrade. In 2013 she was a finalist in the Croatian competition of young music artists Papandopulo, and in 2014 she won the 1st prize at the Davorin Jenko International Trumpet Competition and was declared a laureate. That same year, she received a gold plaque at the Svirel International Competition. She has collaborated with the Zagreb Philharmonic and the Croatian National Theater Orchestra. As a student, through auditions, she gets the opportunity to perform solo with the accompaniment of professional orchestras in Croatia. In 2013, she performed with the wind orchestra of the Croatian Armed Forces, and in 2014 the Zagreb Philharmonic. She has participated in several seminars held by professors: Marin Zokić, Reinhold Friedrich, Rex Richardson, Stanko Arnold, Laura Vukobratović, Guido Segers, Sergio Carstea, Sebastian Gil Armas, Yigal Meltzer…
Since 2018 she is the principal solo trumpet player of the Rijeka Opera and Philharmonic.

Ales Klancar, trumpet

born 1981, started playing the trumpet at the age of 11 at the music school in his hometown Postojna, Slovenia. He has been performing frequently as a soloist and in chamber groups from the very beginning. In 1996 and 1999 he participated in the Slovenian National competition for young musicians (TEMSIG), taking the 1st prize with honors both times. He has also been awarded the Swedish Royal Academy scholarship and received the Skerjanc award for great achievements in the field of music in 2000.
After completing his studies at the Secondary School of Music in Ljubljana, Slovenia, he has continued his education at the Academy of Music in Malmö, Sweden with the world-renowned soloist and professor Håkan Hardenberger, taking a Master's degree in 2005. In addition, he has been frequently attending masterclasses and taking lessons with other established professors such as Bo Nilsson, Stephen Burns, Matthias Höfs, Rex Martin, Gabriele Cassone ...
He has been regularly playing with orchestras like the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Royal Danish Opera, Copenhagen Philharmonic, Aalborg Symphony Orchestra, Slovenian Philharmonic and Turku Symphony Orchestra. In the latter he held the solo trumpet position between January and June 2007. He is a member of the brass quintet Busina Brass and performs all over Europe with ensembles for contemporary classical music like Insomnio (Utrecht, the Netherlands), Musikfabrik (Köln, Germany) ), Remix Ensemble (Porto, Portugal) and Ensemble Ars Nova (Malmö, Sweden). Besides that he often appears as a soloist playing with Malmö Symphony Orchestra (Sandström's Trumpet Concerto no. 2), the WDR Radio Orchestra under the baton of Michail Jurowsky (J. Haydn's Trumpet Concerto) (at the gala concert of the Rheingau Musik Festival, the Slovenian philharmonic (C. Chaynes Trumpet concerto) and others.
Lately he has been devoting his attention to teaching at music seminars (OrkesterkamP, daily courses) and participating in the jury panels of music competitions (Svirel).
Aleš Klančar is a Yamaha Artist and plays YTR-9335CHS and YTR-9445CHS.

Vinko Rozic, horn

born in 1982 in Bjelovar. He completed his horn studies at the Music Academy in Zagreb in the class of prof. Stjepan Mateić. During his studies he also collaborated with prof. Boštjan Lipovšek from Ljubljana, and through seminars with prominent soloists and horn professors such as Hermann Baumann, Miklos Nagy, Radovan Vlatković, and Eric Penzel.
From 2004 to 2019 he was the soloist of the orchestra of the Opera of the Croatian National Theater Ivan pl. Zajc in Rijeka at the 1st horn, and since 2019 he has been a member of the orchestra of the Opera of the Croatian National Theater in Zagreb. He became a collaborative member of the Busina Brass Quintet in 2020.

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