In my first year of studies, I enjoyed the music pedagogy courses, and of course I didn’t forget about the flute. Well, how could I?
I continued with much fewer flute lessons, because my teacher was extremely busy with her new job, so I was more or less on my own. Luckily some seminars or lessons with other great flutists came up in between, and in the same year I started to collaborate with an excellent conductor, Miro Saje, who had just taken over the local orchestra and I can say that he influenced my progress and also had a strong influence on my teaching.

Suddenly I found myself with a lot of work again, but you know, what you really love, you don’t find it difficult to do. So I went to lectures regularly, and almost all the time before and after lectures, I spent in the practice room, either at the piano or with a flute in my hand. The funniest expressions were those of the people who saw me at the piano one time, and at the flute practice another time, and nobody could understand a thing, because I hardly left the practice room.
When I was studying, I still took some music classes at the organ school, because I knew I needed the knowledge. In that year (2008), I successfully passed my first audition for soloist with orchestra at the school. I performed Vivaldi’s beautiful concerto for flute and orchestra, Il Gardellino, at the Young Talents Concert with the Slovenian Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra.