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Niko Novak was a member of the punk rock band Dicky B. Hardy and the renegade duo Incurabili. As a singer-songwriter hummingly recounts his sadly colored songs in a restrained bardic manner.
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Nikola Matošić is a Slovenian double bassist, jazz musician, and cultural organizer from Ljubljana, born in 1978. Initially self-taught, he later studied at workshops and a private music academy in Linz. He plays a key role in the Slovenian jazz scene, organizing legendary jam sessions at Jazz Club Gajo. He has collaborated with many local and international musicians and is a member of Swingatan, a group blending gypsy jazz, swing, and Slavic influences.
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Nikolaj Sajko graduated in cello performance at The Academy of Music in Ljubljana in the class of Ciril Škerjanec and completed his Master of Science at the same institution. He perfected his performance further at postgraduate studies at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz. He was awarded the Klasinc diploma and Antonio Tarsia prize; other important achievements come from national and international competitions for young musicians in Gorizia, Lienz, Zagreb and Ljubljana. He was a member of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra and the World Youth Orchestra. Since 2006 Nikolaj is an assistant solo cellist in the Slovene National Theatre Maribor Symphony Orchestra and a professor at the Conservatory for Music and Ballet in Maribor. Since 2012 he is a program leader of Chamber music series Carpe artem.
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Nimaš Izbire is a Slovenian collective and internet label from Ljubljana, focused on electronic and alternative pop music. Founded by DJ Gabriele Steffe, they organize underground events like Štrom and Krom. Starting as a DIY streetwear brand, they evolved into a community of designers, DJs, and artists aiming to reshape Slovenia’s cultural scene beyond mainstream aesthetics.
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Nina Bulatovix is a three-member rock and post-punk group, active since 2009.
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Slovenian soprano Nina Dominko is a graduate of Music Pedagogy at the Faculty of Pedagogy in Maribor. She also graduated with highest praise from the Academy of Music in Ljubljana in the class of Pia Brodnik. She regularly attends seminars and summer schools (P. Brodnik, B. Fink, C. Spencer, S. McCoy).
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Nina Dragičević is a writer, composer and producer. Her sound art integrates artistic expression and social criticism into sound poetry that portrays society in all its normalised anomalies by combining musique concrete techniques and original recordings of the natural environment with those created using electronic media. Nina has continued to broaden her scope of activity by forming collaborative partnerships with various artists and producing cultural events. Since 2016 she has been producer and artistic director of Slavne neznane (Famous Unknown), a talk-performance series aimed at presenting female sound artists active on the local scene, and artistic director of Topographies of Sound – international sound art symposium and festival.
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She became widely known at the age of seventeen, when she won a talent show in 2005. Nina now performs at larger festivals and venues.
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Nina Strnad, a recognised singer and jazz vocalist, regularly performs at local festivals, concert series and other events, which focus on reviving the golden years of the Slovenian pop song. She often collaborates with the RTV Slovenia Big Band. She has shared the stage with Danny Grisset, Howard T. Curtis, Jure Pukl, Renato Chicco, Uroš Perić, as well as with the film score jazz composer Michael Legrand and others.
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The works of composer Nina Šenk have been performed at numerous important national and international festivals and at many music venues around the world with various orchestras and ensembles. She received her first international exposure in 2004 when winning the European award for best composition at the Young Euro Classic Festival in Berlin. Her international reputation solidified with prominent concerts in Salzburg and Paris, as well as New York where Šenk’s composition was performed by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. After completing her music composition studies Nina decided to embark on an independent career; the many commissions she receives from Slovenia and abroad allow her to practise her profession as a freelancer.