Biography
Matej Zupan is professor of flute at the Academy of Music of the University of Ljubljana. From 1996 to 2008 he was the principal flutist of the Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra. He began his flute studies at the Zagorje ob Savi primary music school, where his first teacher was multi-instrumentalist Ivan Jerin. He went on to study at the Secondary School for Music and Ballet Ljubljana with prof. Jože Pogačnik. He completed his graduate and post graduate studies at the Academy of Music of the University of Ljubljana with prof. Fedja Rupel and went on to pursue advanced studies in Florence, Italy, with Mario Ancillotti. He has attended masterclasses led by Trevor Wye, Michel Debost, Peter-Lukas Graf and James Galway, and is a member of numerous chamber ensembles including the ARIART woodwind quintet, the Academia Ars Musicae Chamber Orchestra and the contemporary music ensemble MD7. From 2010 to 2015 he was president of Jeunesses Musicales Slovenia. As a soloist and member of various chamber ensembles he has performed in Europe, North and South America, and Asia. He has made numerous recordings for Slovenian Radio and TV, RAI and ÖRF, and has recorded five solo CDs and six CDs with Ariart and MD7. He has led flute seminars in Croatia, England, Austria, Italy, Serbia, Greece, Luxembourg, Brazil and the Unites States, and was a jury member at different international competitions in Slovenia, Italy, Hungary, Romania, Serbia and the United States.