April 26, 2026

Žiga Stanič: Piano Concerto No. 2. Live performance at the Slovenian Music Days Festival (#40), Slovenian Philharmonic Hall, RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Davorin Mori, conductor; Žiga Stanič, piano.

November 27-28, 2025

International scientific symposium entitled Music for Health and Well-being at Academy of Music of the University of Ljubljana. Žiga Stanič, lecture: Brain Waves and Collective Interactions in Orchestral Music.

July 19, 2025

Cerkno, Slovenia: premiere performance of a new musical work by composer Žiga Stanič entitled Triakonta, written for the Jazz Punt Big Band, Boštjan Gombač. On the 30th anniversary of the discovery of the Neanderthal flute. Primorske novice: Srečna 30, article by Saša Dragoš

July 18, 2025

1st performance & recording by RTV SLO Symphony Orchestra, Davorin Mori and Žiga Stanič: Piano Concerto No. 2

June 16, 2025

Žiga Stanič: Trio Dar brezplodni, dar slučajni [on a text by Alexander Pushkin, in the translation by M. Klopčič] for soprano, horn and piano, composed back in 1999, will be performed at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana as part of a graduation recital.

April 13, 2025

First performance: Bis by Žiga Stanič, for clarinet, cello, trombone — and looper; Slovenian Music Days, Viteška dvorana, Križanke, Ljubljana [Jože Kotar, Igor Mitrović, Žan Tkalec]

April 12, 2025

Festival of Contemporary Music Abeceda IV, round table discussion: Invention and Development of Slovenian Classical Music: A Perspective for 2030–2040 [Gregor Pompe, Žiga Stanič, Nejc Avbelj, Maj Brinovec, Miha Nahtigal]

March 26, 2025

Arsov Art Atelje 26.03.2025: Žiga Stanič with new works

February 26, 2025

Ars Art Atelier: ISCM World Music Days 2024 in the Faroe Islands, presentation of Slovenian section and the festival activities.

October 26, 2024

Hi-Fi Ljubljana 2024, Žiga Stanič: lecture on Contemporary Musical Hedonism referring to the procedure of symphonic music (post)production & market.

May 31, 2024

Novo mesto, Janez Trdina Cultural Centre: Žiga Stanič: World premiere of Krog, for interchangeable performers playing zither, harp, and guitar. Performed by Tim Jurkovič, Lara Hrastnik and Tajda Krajnc.

2024

CD release: Album 2019-2023; chamber music by Žiga Stanič with various artists.

March 24, 2023

Žiga Stanič: Anti‘s first performance, Viteška dvorana
Ljubljana Križanke, by Ariart Ensemble [Matej Zupan, Irmgart Anderl Krajter, Jože Kotar, Milan Nikolić].

December 21, 2022

New CD release: Žiga Stanič, Cracks of Time. Performed with Boštjan Gombač.

November 25, 2022

Žiga Stanič, lecture: Audio recording as a final product of contemporary orchestral composition. International music symposium, Ljubljana Music Academy.

June 20, 2022

ECSA Composer Alliance Playlist 2022: Music for Peace. Žiga Stanič: Crossing. Performed by Stefan Milenkovich and Žiga Stanič:

April 4, 2021

Žiga Stanič: Sub, for tuba and prepared piano, an onomatopoeia piece composed for Slovene Composers Society, by Uroš Vegelj (tuba) and Žiga Stanič (piano). First performance.

February 2, 2022

University anthem by Žiga Stanič, a symbolic tune composed for Nova Gorica University in 2000; first performance in male octet version in 2022: performed on 2-2-22 by Slovene Octet, at the occasion of a new rector inauguration ceremony.

January 17, 2022

Žiga Stanič: Shut up! Composition for mixed choir, performing with mouths closed. First performance by Ljubljana Music Academy Choir / conductor Alenka Podpečan / in Cukrarna Ljubljana, January 17th, 2022.

January 2022

New CD release: Žiga Stanič: Colored Shadows / Barvne sence. Slovene Composers Society CD, symphonic works (2016-2021) by Žiga Stanič

December 24, 2021

Izpod peresa slovenskih skladateljev: Radio program Ars, interview with Žiga Stanič on Puzzle Symphony and Bitcoin Overture, Shadow cantata, Spring suite, Esophagus battle: link.

October 27, 2021

Cracks of time / Razpoke časa / performance by Boštjan Gombač and Žiga Stanič on October 27th, at the celebration of National Museum of Slovenia’s 200th anniversary. Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana.

September 14 & 15, 2021

Žiga Stanič: A Trip, for symphony orchestra. Performed by Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra in Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana (Symphonc Matinees GMS)

September 2021

Robot, a short piece for piano solo – for children. Onomatopoeia of a robot, commisioned by EPTA, published in Virkla magazine, 2021.

September 10, 2021

Ready steady go! [Pripravljeni, pozor, zdaj!] Composition for prepared marimba, using many extended techniques, onomatopoeia and movable sound clusters. First performance in Novo mesto, by percussionist Simon Klavžar.

September 3, 2021

Lament for the Slovenian Octet. [Žalostinka za Slovenskim oktetom]. Stanič’s piece for male octet, performed by and dedicated to Slovenian Octet in 1995, for the former choir at their farewell. Performance at Kogojevi dnevi, Kanal ob Soči.

June 2, 2021

Concert event for the youth, performed by Slovene Philharmonic orchestra. Žiga Stanič, moderator.

May 2021

New release: CD Žiga Stanič: Zeitgeist, performed by the Cerkno wind-brass band and tidldibab (Divje Babe flute). Presentation within program Ars, Medenina in patina; Radio Slovenia. First performances were on December 21, 25 & 26, 2019, Gorenja Vas and Cerkno, Slovenia. Links: MMC, Idrija.com.

August 25, 2020

Žiga Stanič: Cracks of Time. Live performance at Kromberk castle, Solkan, at the Musice dal Mondo 2020 Festival. Boštjan Gombač, folk woodwinds and tidldibab, Žiga Stanič, prepared piano. Link.

Žiga Stanič: Baba, concerto for tidldibab and orchestra, performances in 2018 by soloist Boštjan Gombač and different orchestras:

• Performance by Jenaer Philharmonie, Jena, Februar 22, 2018
• Two performances by Slovak Sinfonietta, March 8, 2018 Žilina,
• Performance by Filharmonie Bohuslava Martinů, Kongresové centrum Zlín, March 15, 2018
• Performance Filharmonia Śląska im. Henryka Mikołaja Góreckiego.
• Performance in Udine, Italy, May 31st, 2018.
• First live performance in Slovenia [10th performance alltogether], June 7th, 2018.
• Performance in Sofia, Bulgaria, November 19, 2018.
• & archive recording for TV Slovenia, October 2018.

May 12, 2018

Žiga Stanič: A Trip to the Zoo, for symphony orchestra, was performed within the final concert event of the 3rd Keuris Composers Contest 2018 on May 12th in Flint hall, Amersfoort, The Netherlands, where it received 3rd prize. [Keuris Homepage]

2016

Darwinian exhibition in Cantebury, UK
17 October 2016 to 10 November 2016 hosted in the Herbert Read Gallery, UCA, Canterbury, UK. The exhibition consisted of:

• Divje Babe cave: Photograph by student Rosie Panton
• Composition for Divje Babe Flute: Žiga Stanič: Crack of time 45139 (from Crack of time series). Performed by Ljuben Dimkaroski (tidldibab) and Žiga Stanič (prepared piano). Recorded in Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2016.
• Porcelain replica of Divje Babe Flute made by Ljuben Dimkaroski
• Smartland Divertimento- a smartphone installation piece by GRAME

October 10, 2016

Žiga Stanič: I have a dream, for clarinet and accordion. First performance: Boštjan Gombač and Luka Juhart, Ljubljana.

September 2016

Martin Gregor-Dellin’s book Richard Wagner: Sein Leben. Sein Werk. Sein Jahrhundert; was translated into Slovenian for the first time, and was published in 2016. Translator: Dr. Simon Širca; peer review: Peter Bedjanič, Dr. Žiga Stanič. A short review and preview.

March 23, 2016

Žiga Stanič: Piano concerto No. 1. world premiere at final concert of the 32nd Slovenian Music Days Festival at the Slovenian Philharmonic, Ljubljana. RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, conductor Simon Krečič, soloist Žiga Stanič. Link.

On creative work. An interview in the Slovenian music journal Glasna, in the column V ateljeju skladateljskih poetik (In the Studio of Composers’ Poetics) [Glasna, Year 47, No. 1, February-March 2016, pp. 30-31]

New CD release: Stanič’s CD entitled Variatio delectat, released in 2016 by the Society of Slovene Composers, contains a variety of types of music created by Žiga Stanič. It opens with the Antiopera, which is followed by compositions for 1, 2, 3 and 5 performers. Link.

December 2015

At the end of 2015, a book Writings on Wagner [Spisi o Wagnerju] was published, comprising famous works translated into Slovenian for the first time: G. B. Shaw (The Perfect Wagnerite), T. Mann (Das Leiden und Größe Richard Wagners, Richard Wagner und Der Ring des Nibelungen) and T. W. Adorno (Versuch über Wagner). Translator: Dr Simon Širca; peer review: Peter Bedjanič, Dr Žiga Stanič, Nataša Zager. Preview. ISBN 978-961-6311-91-5

2015

Since 2002, sound recordings by the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra have been submitted four times to the international sound recording competition Taktons in Novi Sad, Serbia. Each time, the recordings have received first prize in large orchestra categories, twice with sound engineer Rado Cedilnik (R. Strauss: Horn Concerto No.1, G. Faure: Pelléas et Mélisande), once with sound engineer Januš Luznar (A. Bruckner: Symphony No. 7), and in year 2015 with sound engineer Aleks Pirkmajer Penko (G. Holst: Planets). The results reflect the superb quality of RTV Slovenia’s orchestral music production. Link.

November 2016

A lecture on synesthesia, musical cryptography and the subjectivity of color pattern translation – questions and problems arising from A. Scriabin’s final orchestral work Prometheus. For the European Piano Teachers Association (EPTA), Ljubljana, November 2015. Published in the Virkla magazine, pp. 2-5, November 2016.

2013

Richard Wagner’s (1813-1883) famous book Opera and Drama was first translated into Slovenian on the 200th anniversary of author’s birth. Translator: Dr Simon Širca; Peer Reviewers: Mr Uroš Lajovic and Dr Ž. Stanič. ISBN 978-961-6311-80-9

2012

Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini. In 2012, TV Slovenia recorded orchestral music including Rachmaninov’s famous work. Performed by Žiga Stanič, piano, En Shao, conductor, and the RTV Symphony Orchestra. It was first broadcast in December 2012.