izv. prof. art. Borut Zagoranski

Title:	Associate professor
E-mail:	E-mail
Department:	Odsjek studija Klasične harmonike

Teaching

undergraduate

• Accordion 1 (53941) - Lecturer in charge
• Accordion 2 (53962) - Lecturer in charge
• Accordion 4 (53996) - Lecturer in charge
• Accordion 5 (54012) - Lecturer in charge
• Accordion 6 (54021) - Lecturer in charge
• Accordion 7 (54028) - Lecturer in charge
• Accordion 8 (54034) - Lecturer in charge
• Chamber Music 1 (200883) - Lecturer in charge
• Chamber Music 2 (200886) - Lecturer in charge
• Chamber Music 3 (201981) - Lecturer in charge
• Chamber Music 4 (201984) - Lecturer in charge

graduate

• Accordion 1 (187315) - Lecturer in charge
• Accordion 2 (187319) - Lecturer in charge
• Chamber Music 2 (221106) - Lecturer in charge
• Concert for Accordion and Orchestra (200950) - Lecturer in charge

Biography

Borut Zagoranski, a Slovenian accordionist and pedagogue, was born 1980 in Ptuj, Slovenia. His music education started at the Music School in his hometown and continued at the Conservatoire for Music and Ballet in Maribor, Slovenia. He graduated in 2002 at the Music Academy in Pula, University of Juraj Dobrila in Pula, Croatia (Muzička akademija u Puli, Sveučilište Jurja Dobrile u Puli), receiving at the same time the Rector's Award for Best Student. He then enrolled for the Postgraduate Diploma in Performance at the Royal Academy of Music in London and took his final concert diploma DipRAM in 2006.

His mentors include Marjetka Babić, Slavko Magdić and Owen Murray, as well as other eminent musicians and accordion teachers.

Zagoranski is a prizewinner of numerous national and international accordion competitions. As the Slovenian representative he reached the finale in the 1998 »Eurovision Grand Prix for Young Musicians« competition in Vienna. He is the recipient of the prestigious award »Friends of the Royal Academy of Music Wigmore Award« for 2006.

He participated in many renowned international festivals, such as ISCM World Days of Music, ISCM Musica Danubiana, Aldeburgh Festival, Norfolk & Norwich Festival, Highgate Music Festival, Glasbeni september (Musical September) Maribor. He was a soloist with orchestras like Symphonieorchester ORF (Austrian Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra), London Sinfonietta, Slovenska filharmonija (Slovenian Philharmonic), Simfonični orkester SNG (Symphony Orchestra of the Slovenian National Opera) in Maribor. His played under the baton of Dennis Russell Davies, Lalo Schifrin, Pablo Zinger, Marko Letonja and appeared in distinguished concert venues like Wigmore Hall in London, Wiener Konzerthaus and Konzerthaus Berlin, Benaroya Hall in Seattle.

Zagoranski is a jury member at international accordion competitions, a reviewer of specialized publications and author of university level accordion curricula.

He is professor both at the Academy in Pula, University of Juraj Dobrila in Pula and at the Academy of Music, University in Ljubljana where he is Head of Chamber Music Department. As guest lecturer he was invited to music academies in London (United Kingdom), Gdansk and Lodz (Poland), Vilnius (Lithuania), Bratislava (Slovakia), Trieste (Italy). Since 2014 he has been an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in London.