Behind the curtain Part 10
BEHIND THE CURTAIN Part 10 After successfully completing my post-graduate studies, with many new ideas and increased motivation, I focused all my attention on the development of children, their playing and spreading the love of music in general. The results, this time, started to appear much more obviously than at the beginning of my teaching, […]
Behind the curtain Part 9
BEHIND THE CURTAIN Part 9 The whole study process in Ljubljana was marked by both successes and failures. It is really interesting how most people only see the successes of an individual, but no one can imagine, or maybe even wants to imagine, the downfalls that someone can experience. I myself have struggled for 4 […]
Behind the curtain Part 8
BEHIND THE CURTAIN Part 8 I eventually continued my flute studies in Ljubljana, but I put aside my studies in pedagogy due to the excessive number of courses in both fields of study and the resulting heavy workload. All the effort I put into my music pedagogy studies turned out to be a great investment, […]
Behind the curtain Part 7
BEHIND THE CURTAIN Part 7 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. […]
Behind the curtain Part 6
BEHIND THE CURTAIN Part 6 During the preparation for the entrance exams, I fortunately got used to the open system of keys in less than a month, I enjoyed playing immensely, played some great pieces, and fortunately managed to remove the fixed dental braces that had already messed up my lower lip. The months of […]
Behind the curtain Part 5
BEHIND THE CURTAIN Part 5 It was the last year of high school and less than a year until the entrance exams at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana. A few flute lessons were behind me and I was still a proud owner of a Yamaha 211 SII (flute for beginners). So, although I practised […]
Behind the curtain Part 4
BEHIND THE CURTAIN Part 4 In the summer of 2006, I attended my first seminar, Musica Loca, with Prof. Matej Zupan. I had no idea what a seminar was, all I remember was that at home, like a little kitten, I earnestly, persistently and heartily begged for money to attend. Even though we were 4 […]
Behind the curtain Part 3
BEHIND THE CURTAIN Part 3 During the week I was going to the high school and to the Organ School at the weekend. I felt like I was living a dream. I have to admit, it saved me a lot of physical work on our farm, but at the same time I was filling my […]
Behind the curtain Part 2
BEHIND THE CURTAIN Part 2 I continued my education at the High School of Economics in Novo mesto, and in music school I continued with piano-accordion lessons with Ivanka Benković, as I did not meet the criteria for solo singing. Geez, how many rejections in such a short time. A normal person would have given […]
Behind the curtain Part 1
BEHIND THE CURTAIN Part 1 I’m Pija and I’m from a small town called Šentjernej in the south-east of Slovenia. I grew up on a farm in a family of 6, where each of the children played 1 or 2 instruments (the 2nd instrument was always the accordion), and we also worked together as a […]