Miloš Mlejnik

Miloš Mlejnik is native of picturesque, acient town of Škofja Loka, an area which contributed a large number of important Slovenian cultural personalities. He inherited the love for the violoncello from his father, who also provided the first instructions how to play the instrument. Mlejnik graduated at the Ljubljana Music Academy in 1970 in the class of professor Oton Bajde, who remained his tutor also during his post graduate studies. Having completed this, Mlejnik continued advanced studies under Siegfried Palm at the Köln High School of Music, and master courses under Enrico Mainardi and Andre Navarra.

He appears frequently on the concert stage as a soloist with various orchestras.

He performed with the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra in the famous Carnegie Hall in New York, Gewandhaus in Leipzig and the Schauspielhaus in Berlin.

Miloš Mlejnik is one of the leading Slovenian musicians, a violoncellist possessing clean-cut technique, a full and noble tone as well as elementary musicality. His repertoire is vast, and includes works from preclassicism up to the present. He gave numerous first performances of works by Slovenian composers dedicated to him.

The cellist won many importand awards, among others the first prize at the competition Alfred Vorster Preis (Cologne 1972), the first prize at the competition of young Yugoslav artists (Zagreb 1973), the first prize at the 10th international competition of chamber music (Colmar 1977), the award of the Prešeren foundation (1984), and an award by the Prešeren foundation as member of the string quartet Tartini (2001).