Miscellaneous “Violin evening in Radenci” (Večer) On Thursday 25th January at 20:00 the coffee-shop Swing of the Hotel Radin in Radenci will be the host of the violin evening with Peter Kuhar, a young and talented violinist, student of the Music College in Vienna. The 22 years old artist from Ludwigshafn started to learn violin at the age of five in Maribor with Professor Kristina Kolbl and attended contests in Slovenia and abroad. Currently he is collaborating in concerts in the Austrian capital as a soloist in chamber orchestras. Thursdays’ violin evening program includes the works of Bach, Hindernith, Kreisler, Ysaye and Paganini. “Violinist Peter Kuhar in the Kazinska hall in SNG Maribor” (Večer) The concert office of the National home will organize, on Tuesday 27th January at 19:30 in the Kazinska hall of SNG Maribor, the performance of the young violinist from Maribor Peter Kuhar. He will be accompanied on piano by Hinko Haas. Peter Kuhar recently graduated from Vienna Music College, where he already attends the specialization on the postgraduate studies. Among others he perfected his playing in summer schools with Professor Igor Ozim and won several prizes in contests for young violinists. Hinko Haas is one of the most prominent representatives of the young generation of Slovene pianists. His repertoire includes solo and concert works of periods of all styles, contemporary Slovene composers write for him, he also devotes his attention to chamber literature. On Tuesday’s concert Peter Kuhar and Hinko Haas will perform the works of Johannes Brahms, Camille Saint Saens, Ludwig van Beethoven and Pablo De Sarasate. Peter Kuhar’s concert in Ptuj (Večer) Violinist Peter Kuhar, student of the Vienna Music College will perform in the minorite cloister in Ptuj. The charity concert is organized by Club Rotary Ptuj. The young violinist, born in 1974 recently had a solo concert in Vienna. In Ptuj he will be performing the works of Bach, Brahms and Beethoven. He will be accompanied on piano by Hinko Haas. This evening: Young for young in Cankarjev dom (Večer) Young violinist Peter Kuhar Within the concerts Young for young, organized once a month by the Young musicians from Ljubljana, in the Kosovel hall in Cankarjev dom, this evening, Wednesday November 19th at 19:30 will perform the young violinist Peter kuhar, born in 1974, who recently graduated from the Vienna Music College. He started to learn violin with Professor Kristina Kolbl in the Music school in Maribor and at the age of 12 continued his studies in the Music high school in Ljubljana with Professor Ciril Veronek.

At the young age of 16 he passed the acceptance exam for the Vienna Music College. During his studies he regularly improved his playing at summer schools with Professor Igor Ozim and collaborated at concerts and contest in Slovenia and abroad, where he won several prizes. Currently he continues his specialization in the postgraduate studies in Vienna. This evening he will perform: Ludwig van Beethoven, Sonata in F-major, op.24 (Spring) and Pablo de Sarasate, Fantasia Carmen, op.25 (after the opera of Bizet). He will be accompanied on piano by Hinko Haas. Ptuj: Summer evenings in the second half of July (Večer) With the season-ticket it will be possible to attend 6 shows, which this year will be mostly musical This year’s Summer evening of the Society of artists and creators, organized by Ivan Brač and Franc Mlakar, will begin on July 20th with the concert of the Philharmonic orchestra of RTV Slovenia, on July 22nd will be the concert of Oto Pestner, at the 35 anniversary of his musical career, on July 25th the concert of Andrej Šifrer, on July 27th the concert of the Russian philharmonic orchestra with the soloists violinist Peter Kuhar and the opera bass singer Igor Matjuhnin. On August 2nd Tom Jurank will perform, on August 4th the evenings will be concluded by Zijah A. Sokolović with the legendary play Glumac je Glumac. The performances will be held in the minorite cloister. Parallel the chamber events will be performances on the Slovene square, Prešeren and Murko street of three groups: exhibition and creation of souvenirs, exhibition of old vehicles and street music. Three groups will be performing old urban, gipsy and Irish music. In any case the choice of events this year is significantly smaller than last year. Franc Mlakar told us:”We adapted the program to the taste of the audience in Ptuj and the financial possibilities, the municipality of Ptuj awarded us 2 million tolars, which is not enough to cover the costs of the event. The rest of the founds 7,5 million tolars will be collected with the help of sponsors and the entrance tickets.” The entrance to all the events is possible with the purchase of the season-ticket, which will cost 6000 tolars. Ptuj/ The end of Summer evenings ’99 (Večer) Variety in spite of all On August 3rd with the performance of Zijah Sokolović ended this year’s Summer evenings of the Society of artists and creators of Ptuj, which took place from July 20th. Within the Society of artists and creators of Ptuj the event was lead by Andrej Klasinc and Franc Mlakar. Their motto was: “Don’t ask what Ptuj will give you, but what you can give to Ptuj!” The visitors were most impressed by the evening with the Russian national symphonic orchestra from Moscow, with which performed as a soloist the young violinist from Maribor Peter Kuhar, who was according to many visitors the star of the evening. Even though the organizers will need some more time to estimate the whole evaluation of the event, this year’s fewer attendance (one event had to be cancelled) is also the consequence of bad weather. In addition the organization of all the summer events in Ptuj was not in harmony.

One of the causes is also the heat before the election of the general manager of the economic interest association GIZ Poetovio vivat, say the Society of artists and creators of Ptuj, who met big financial problems at organizing this years’ events. The municipality budget awarded only a bit more than 2 million tolars for the summer music evenings, the rest, more than 5 million tolars had to be gained from sponsors. The municipality was only one of the major sponsors of the summer evenings ’99. But it is true that a lot can be done with good will that is why this year summer events are a kind of turning point. It is necessary to start right now to form a quality program that will have a professional basis. But professionalism needs a much bigger financial injection.