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Nana Forte (* 1981 in Zagorje ob Savi, Slovenia) is a Slovenian composer.

Life

In 2005, Forte graduated in composition from the Academy of Music in Ljubljana with Marko Mihevc. From 2005 to 2007 she continued her postgraduate studies at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden with Lothar Voigtländer and in Berlin at the Universität der Künste with Walter Zimmermann (2007-09).

Her works include compositions for solo instruments, chamber music, orchestral music and choral works. Forte is one of the few young Slovenian composers who compose a lot of choral music.

Her compositions have been performed at concerts and festivals throughout Europe, including Young Euro Classic (DE), Weimar Spring Days (DE), Music Biennale Zagreb (CRO), Festival Bemus (SRB), Klara Festival (BE), Festival Emilia Romagna (I), Festival Semanas de Musica do Estoril (PT), Festival LES VOIXS DU PRIEURE (FR), Biennale of Contemporary Music Koper (SI), Ljubljana Festival (SI) and Festival Slowind (SI), and have been broadcast by various European classical music radio stations.

In 2007, she was selected to represent the Republic of Slovenia in the European Ensemble Academy project organised by the German Music Council on the occasion of the German Presidency of the Council of the European Union. Her piece Pritrkavanje, which she wrote especially for a chamber ensemble, was performed in Dortmund, Bremen, Ljubljana, Rome and Brussels.

In August 2007, her orchestral composition Genesis was performed at the Young Euro Classic festival in Berlin with the Music Academy Orchestra Ljubljana conducted by George Pehlivanian and soloists Jože Kotar (clarinet) and Borut Zagoranski (accordion). In the same year, she also presented her choral piece Libera me at the Zagreb Music Biennale in Croatia.

Her piece Libera me for two mixed choirs was the compulsory piece in the final of the 5th International Competition for Young Choral Conductors Europa Cantat in Ljubljana in 2009 and was performed by many Slovenian and European choirs.

In May 2010, her composition V lovljenju besed med izštevanjem tišine (In Search of Words while Counting Silence) for flute and soprano was awarded first prize at the Second Biennial of Contemporary Music in Koper, Slovenia.

Her most recent project was MusmA 2011 (Music Masters on Air), a collaboration of ten festivals in partnership with their ten radio stations, in which she represented Slovenia and won first prize. For this occasion she was commissioned to write a new piece for solo piano. The composition A broken car was performed at six European music festivals in Belgium, Italy, Serbia, Portugal, Hungary and Slovenia.

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