PIANO ACCOMPANIST

Neža Koželj, born in 1992 in Ljubljana, began playing piano at the age of six. In 2017, she graduated from the Ljubljana Academy of Music, in the class of Professor Hinko Haas. She works as an accompanist at the Conservatory of Music and Ballet in Ljubljana, and is finishing her second Master's degree in piano duo in Graz. Together with the pianist Nadja Rus she won several international competitions since 2011. She is a recipient of the Prešeren Award given by the Ljubljana Academy of Music. She performed Francis Poulenc’s concert for two pianos and orchestra with the SNG Maribor Symphony Orchestra, and W. A. ​​Mozart’s concert for two pianos and orchestra with the EUYO Orchestra conducted by Vasily Petrenko. In her career, she performed many chamber concerts, and she studied with several Slovene and foreign professors.