Boštjan Lipovšek

Boštjan Lipovšek got his first music lessons from his brother and father, both horn players. He continued his education first at the Secondary School of Music and Ballet and then at the Ljubljana Academy of Music under Prof. Jože Falout. He also graduated from his school and completed his post-graduate studies with him. He studied with Radovan Vlatković at the Salzburg Mozarteum. During his studies in Ljubljana, he received the student Prešeren Prize for his performance of Strauss's 1st Concerto for Horn and Orchestra with the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra. Immediately afterwards he took up the position of solo hornist in the orchestra. As a soloist, he regularly performs with the parent orchestra of the Slovenian Broadcasting Corporation, as well as with foreign orchestras. As a soloist he has worked with conductors such as Anton Nanut, Uroš Lajovic, Marko Letonja, En Shao, David de Villiers, S. Pelegrino Amato, Gary Brain, Amy Anderson, Yakov Kreizberg, Sian Edwards, Pavle Dešpalj. As an orchestral soloist he has appeared with the National Orchestra of La Monnaie Opera in Brussels, the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Budapest Festival Orchestra, the Australian Chamber Orchestra, and in recent years extensively with the Camerata Salzburg Scottish Chamber Orchestra. In 2001 he won the international competition Citta di Porcia. He is a full professor at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana, and since 2005 he has been a visiting associate professor at the Academy in Zagreb. In 2008 he was awarded the ̋Prešeren Fund̋ Prize for his artistic achievements in the field of music.

RTV Slovenia's ZKP label has so far released several CDs; some solo and two in chamber ensembles, and the German Profil label has released a CD Salzburg Rarities with Juvavum Brass. With the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, of which he has been a member since 1995, he has recorded concertos by R. Strauss, W. A. Mozart, R. Gliere, J. Pauer...and of particular note are the first performances and premiere recordings of works by L. Lebič, I. Petrić, T. Habet and U. Krek.