Concert 1
November 11, 2025, Slovenian Philharmonic Hall
Percussion feast
19:30
Pre-concert talk with Vili Polajnar (moderation: Gregor Pompe)
20:00
John Cage, Music for Carillon no. 1
John Cage, Child of Tree
Karlheinz Stockhausen, Refrain
Vili Polajnar, XYZ [commissioned by NMF, first performance]
***
Morton Feldman, The King of Denmark
John Cage, Credo in Us
John Cage, First Construction (in Metal)
Simon Klavžar (percussion)
Jože Bogolin (percussion)
Luka Poljanec (percussion)
Jan Čibej (percussion)
Špela Mastnak (percussion)
Gašper Šemrov (percussion)
Alenka Jezernik (percussion)
Sae Lee (piano)
Lucija Lorenzutti (celesta)
Rok Zalokar (electronics)
Concert 2
November 14, 2025, Slovenian Philharmonic Hall
New media and interactions
19:30
Pre-concert talk with Bojana Šaljić Podešva (moderation: Gregor Pompe)
20:00
Morton Feldman, DeKooning
Johannes Kreidler, Piece for Harp and Video
Earle Brown, Hodograph 1
John Cage, Music for Wind Instruments
1. Trio
2. Duo
3. Quintet
***
Morton Feldman, Projection II
Bojana Paljić Podešva, Blood is water (with flavor) [commissioned by NMF, first performance]
Cornelius Cardew, Autumn ’60
Urška Rihtaršič (harp)
Slowind*
Aleš Kacjan (flute)
Matej Šarc (oboe)
Jurij Jenko (clarinet)
Metod Tomac (horn)
Paolo Calligaris (bassoon)
New Music Forum Ensemble
Lara Šalamon (flute)
Aljaž Beguš (clarinet)
Andrej Petreski (oboe)
Paolo Calligaris (bassoon)
Jože Rošer (horn)
Franc Kosem (trumpet)
Sae Lee (piano)
Miha Haas (piano)
Jan Čibej (percussion)
Matjaž Porovne (violin)
Tilen Udovič (viola)
Katarina Leskovar (cello)
Rok Zalokar (electronics)
Michel Pozmanter (conductor)
* performance on the occasion of the 30th anniversary
Concert 3
November 17, 2025, Club CD
Instrumental theatre
10,00 EUR
8,00 EUR (for younger than 25 and older than 65, as well as pensioners)
20:00
John Cage, Cheap Imitations I
Cathy Berberian, Stripsody
Primož Ramovš, Pentektasis
Primož Ramovš, (Ne)-simetrija
John Cage, The wonderful widow of eighteen springs
Vinko Globokar, Metamorphosis
***
Petra Strahovnik, 4’44’’
John Cage, Aria
Mauricio Kagel, Match
Rebeka Pregelj (voice)
Lara Šalamon (flute)
Nina Prešiček (piano)
Deyan Muc (violin)
Ema Krečič (cello)
Katarina Leskovar (cello)
Špela Mastnak (percussion)
Rok Zalokar (electronics)
Concert 4
November 19, 2025, Club CD
Let’s experiment!
10,00 EUR
8,00 EUR (for younger than 25 and older than 65, as well as pensioners)
19:30
Pre-concert talk with Simone Heilgendorff (moderation: Gregor Pompe)
(Admission to the pre-concert talk is possible with a concert ticket.)
20:00
Selection from the collections:
Earle Brown, December 1952 from Folio
John Cage, Solos for Voice 3–92 from Song Books
John Cage, Sonatas and Interludes
Karlheinz Essl, FontanaMixer
Pauline Oliveros, Listening Questions from Deep Listening
Dieter Schnebel, Marcel Duchamps, Joseph Beuys, and Jackson Pollock from MoMA Museumsstücke II
Dieter Schnebel, Bauernszene from Museumsstücke I
Karlheinez Stockhausen, Aus den sieben Tagen
Christian Wolf, Stones from Prose Collection
Simone Heilgendorff (concept & artistic leadership, viola)
Ina Puntar (voice)
Lucija Lorenzutti (piano)
Rok Zalokar (electronics, intermedia)
Urška Rihtaršič (harp)
Weronika Partyka (saxophone)
Luka Poljanec (percussion)
Dance performance/Concert 5
November 22, 2025, Old Power Plant
Cage Open
20:00
Andreja Rauch Podrzavnik in Milan Tomášik:
Cage Open. Truck Passing By a Music School
Music: John Cage, Imaginary Landscape No. 1, Variations III, In a Landscape, Two6, Perpetual Tango, Mysterious Adventure, Music for Marcel Duchamp
Concept: Rok Vevar, Jasmina Založnik
Choreo-direction: Milan Tomášik, Andreja Rauch Podrzavnik
Co-creation and performance: Bojana Robinson, Martin Kilvády, Andreja Rauch Podrzavnik, Milan Tomášik
Musicians of the New Music Forum Ensemble: Nina Prešiček (piano), Deyan Muc (violin), Urška Rihtaršič (harp), Alenka Jezernik (percussion), Jože Bogolin (percussion), Peter Jeretina (percussion), Klemen Juvančič (percussion), Rok Zalokar (electronics)
Music selection: Andreja Rauch Podrzavnik and Milan Tomášik
Lighting design: Borut Bučinel
Set design: Andreja Rauch Podrzavnik, Milan Tomášik, and Borut Bučinel
Video: Darko Sintič
Video editing: Andreja Rauch Podrzavnik
Executive production: Mojca Prešern Levstek, UHO Association
Production: DUM – Association of Artists
Co-production: Nomad Dance Academy Slovenija and Društvo UHO (Forum nove glasbe)
Support: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, Municipality of Ljubljana
Tickets: https://cofestival.si/2025/en/vstopnice/
Concert 6
November 26, 2025, Slovenian Philharmonic Hall
Available pieces
20:00
Witold Lutosławski, Lancuch 1
Morton Feldman, Routine Investigations
Earle Brown, Available Forms I
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John Cage, Fourteen
Anton Webern, Concert, op. 24
James Tenney, Form 2 (In Memoriam John Cage)
New Music Forum Ensemble
Irena Kavčič (flute, piccolo, alto flute)
Irena Rovtar (flute, bass flute)
Andrej Petreski (oboe, English horn)
Anže Plesnik Zupanc (clarinet, bass clarinet)
Samanta Škorja (clarinet)
Peter Kuder (clarinet)
Domen Koren (saxophone)
Paolo Calligaris (bassoon)
Boštjan Lipovšek (horn)
Aleš Klančar (trumpet)
Domen Gantar (trombone)
Jan Čibej (percussion)
Gašper Šemrov (percussion)
Marija Jovanović (piano)
Neža Tovšak (piano)
Lovorka Nemeš Dular (piano)
Urška Rihtaršič (harp)
Deyan Muc (violin)
Doris Šegula (violin)
Tilen Udovič (viola)
Maruša Bogataj (cello)
Zoran Marković (double bass)
Peter Rundel (conductor)
ACCOMPANYING PROGRAMME
Accompanying events 1
November 8, 13, 20, 2025, Dvorni bar, LP bar, Pritličje, TOZD
Cage in a Bar
November 8, 2025, at 11:00, Dvorni bar
November 8, 2025, at 12:00, LP bar
November 13, 2025, at 17:30, Pritličje
November 13, 2025, at 18:30, TOZD
November 20, 2025, at 17:30, TOZD
November 20, 2025, at 18:30, Pritličje
John Cage, Living Room Music
Luka Poljanec (percussion)
Jože Bogolin (percussion)
Gašper Šemrov (percussion)
Alenka Jezernik (percussion)
Jan Čibej (percussion)
Accompanying event 2
November 18, 2025, Club CD
Cage in time and space
19:30
Lectures about the are in time of John Cage
Cage and Music (dr. Gregor Pompe)
Cage and fine arts (dr. Rebeka Vidrih)
Cage and contemporary dance (Rok Vevar)
21:00*
Presentation of the translation of the book Silence by John Cage
CPG impro
Primož Čunik
Ana Pepelnik
Tomaž Grom
* in collaboration with LUD Šerpa and Zavod SPLOH
Accompanying concert 3*
November 22, Slovenian Philharmonic Hall
Cage for the young
11:00
John Cage:
Organ²/ASLSP
4’33’’
Round from Three Easy Pieces
Six Melodies for Violin and Piano
III
VI
Water Walk
In a Landscape
Chess Pieces
Totem Ancestor
Suite for Toy Piano
Dream, arr. B. Šinigoj
Song Books I
Solo for voice 49
Solo for voice 36
Solo for voice 37
Solo for voice 38
The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen springs
Three early songs
Song Books I
Solo for voice 27
Students of the Vič Rudnik Music School with guests: Iva Barbarić, Dunja Berce, Mila Hana Breskvar, Julija Bukovec, Ema Dora Burstin, Zoja Dakič, Gal Demšar, Erin Drnovšek Pangerc, Stefan Fortuna, Sofia Frolova, Naja Gabrovšek, Urška Grad, Elija Hajdinjak, Krista Hočevar, Jarne Horvat Juntes, Doris Horvat, Avguštin Hribar, Jakob Jamšek, Pavlina Jaševec, Zoja Jesih, Peter Jud, Ula Knez Kodrič, Ema Konda Hadžič, Zarja Kos, Brane Košir, Blahovista Kryvenko, Maruša Krivic, Mia Kristina Krušec Urbanc, Jakob Kunaver, Luna Malovrh Rebec, Gaja Marolt, Sofija Mihalič, Anja Mlinšek, Hana Movrin, Dominic Chidera Nwobu, Ana Chiamaka Novaković, Jan Obinna Novaković, Zala Obretan, Beja Pivk, Jurij Julij Podlogar, Ilja Aleksander Potisk, Alina Sofija Potisk, Maša Prah, Lucija Peršin, Ana Pestotnik Stres, Vid Primc, Brina Remškar, Ana-Marija Rakovec, Arne Senica, Izidor Sevšek, Jurij Sevšek, Julija Šlibar, Lučka Slatnar, Špela Smrtnik, Nina Tome Škarja, Pia Šmon, Ana Šarvari, Erik Šesek, Izabela Šešek, Leonard Štampar Mežnaršič, Ajda Stanič, Varja Stanič, Maks Čerček, Ajda Čoko, Tanja Čusak, Maks Vrtovec Trajanov, Zofija Vukajlović, Marko Jan Vukajković, Luka Vojnović, Luka Vovk, Sofia Žižmund
Mentors: Urška Čepulič, Eva Dobnikar, Lidija Grkman, Andreja Hauptman Škabar, Špela Kermelj, Katja Konvalinka, Metka Lebar, Irina Milivojević, Barbara Nagode, Aleksandra Naumovski Potisk, Bojana Poljšak, Bronka Prinčič, Janko Snoj, Radovan Škrjanc, Alenka Slokar Bajc, Jelena Susnick, Valerija Šoster, Boris Šinigoj, Tomaž Sevšek Šramel, Maja Tajnšek, Ivana Ziherl
* in collaboration with the Vič Rudnik Music School
Accompanying events 4*
November 25, 2025, Academy of Music
Students & Cage
11:00, Academy of Music (Betteto Hall)
Homo mensura
Interactive composition by students of the Studio for the Contemporrary Music of the Academy of Music in Ljubljana under the direction of composer Matej Bonin and in collaboration with the audience/passers-by
19:00, Academy of Music (Betteto Hall)
John Cage, Imaginary Landscape No.4 (March No. 2)
Morton Feldman, The Viola in My Life I
John Cage, Five
Morton Feldman, The Viola in My Life 3
James Tenney, Harmonium No. 1
Studio for the Contemporrary Music of the Academy of Music
20:00, Academy of Music (Betteto Hall)
Julius Eastman, Evil Nigger
Julius Eastman, Gay Guerilla
* in collaboration with Academy of Music
