Vince Mendoza & 80/70 Years of RTV Slovenia Big Band and Symphony Orchestra

Conductor: Vince Mendoza (8-time Grammy Award winner)
RTV Slovenia Big Band 
RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra 

This year, the RTV Slovenia Big Band and Symphony Orchestra are celebrating their 80th and 70th anniversary, respectively. They will mark these milestones with a gala concert, under the baton of the legendary VINCE MENDOZA. The renowned American conductor, composer and music arranger has built a stellar career, writing and arranging music for artists such as Björk, Gregory Porter, Chaka Khan, Elvis Costello, Al Jarreau, Diana Krall, Melody Gardot, Sting and Joni Mitchell. One of the world’s most respected and sought-after jazz composers, Mendoza has guest conducted some of the world’s most prestigious orchestras, including the WDR Big Band, the Metropole Orchestra and the New York, Los Angeles and Berlin Philharmonics.

The last eight decades of musical life in Slovenia would not have been the same without the RTV Slovenia Big Band and Symphony Orchestra. In partnership with Slovenian music legends, most notably Jože Privšek, Janez Gregorc, Samo Hubad, Anton Nanut and soloists Petar Ugrin, Andrej Arnol, Silvester Stingl, Marko Črnčec, Jure Pukl, Dubravka Tomšič Srebotnjak, Aci Bertoncelj, Irena Grafenauer, Igor Ozim, Branimir Slokar, and many others, our ensembles have raised the bar for what makes great jazz music to unprecedented heights.
At the concert in Cankarjev dom’s Gallus Hall, Vince Mendoza and the RTV Slovenia ensembles will perform jazz standards as well as the conductor’s latest compositions, which have earned him eight Grammy Awards and solidified his repute an artist at the forefront of jazz and contemporary music on a global scale.

Vince Mendoza & 80/70 Years of RTV Slovenia Big Band and Symphony Orchestra