{"id":5015,"date":"2026-05-20T17:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/promusica.org.pl\/?page_id=5015"},"modified":"2026-05-20T17:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:07:10","slug":"dusan-sodja","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/promusica.org.pl\/en\/dusan-sodja\/","title":{"rendered":"Du\u0161an Sodja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Du\u0161an Sodja<\/strong> studied clarinet with Alojz Zupan at the Ljubljana Academy of Music and at the University \u201cMozarteum\u201d in Salzbrug with Alois Brandhofer where he was awarded a Master&#8217;s degree. Since 1996 he is clarinetist soloist of the <em>Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra and <\/em>teacher at the <em>Ljubljana Conservatory of Music and Ballet.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He has given concerts in Slovenia, Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Poland, Scotland, Italy, Germany, Slovakia, Sweden, Spain, Armenia, China and the USA and has performed as a soloist with the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of the Darmstadt State Opera, Bogdan Warchal Slovak Chamber Orchestra, Cappella Istropolitana, Celje String Orchestra. In 1992 he was clarinetist in the Youth Symphony Orchestra in Bayreuth, and a year later also in the Mediterranean Youth Orchestra in France.<\/p>\n<p>From 2001 to 2005 Du\u0161an Sodja was lecturing at \u201cJunge K\u00e4rntner Bl\u00e4serphilharmonie\u201d in Austria. He has given masterclasses at \u201cOrkesterKamp\u201d summercourses (Slovenija) for symphony and winds orchestras between 2007-2017. Since 2013 he has given masterclasses in Summer School \u201cZre\u010de\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>With his wife-pianist Tatjana Kau\u010di\u010d they established <strong>D<\/strong><strong>uo Claripiano<\/strong> in 1994. They studied chamber music with Bo\u017eidar Tumpej and completed specialist studies with pianist Anthony Spiri at the Cologne University of Music. Since then they have given a number of noticable concerts (Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Ljubljana Summer Festival, Carinthischer Sommer, ClarinetFest in Los Angeles, Madrid, Assisi, Florida, Montepulciano Chamber Music Academy, International Music Festival in Yerevan, Mendelssohnhaus in Leipzig, China Tour in 2019). They have premiered more than 40 works by Slovenian composers and recorded several compact discs: \u201c<em>Legends<\/em>\u201d in 1999, \u201c<em>Encounters<\/em>\u201d (2004) with pieces by Slovenian composers dedicated to them), \u201c<em>Romantic Claripiano<\/em>\u201d (Brahms, Schumann, Saint-Sa\u00ebns), <em>\u201c20 Claripiano\u201d<\/em> (2014), \u201c<em>Dual embrace<\/em>\u201d (2017) with concert pieces of slovenian composers on slovenian folk motifs. The last CD \u201c30 ClariPiano\u201d issued in 2025 consists of Concertos for Clarinet, Piano and String Orchestra written by slovenian composers Nenad Fir\u0161t, \u010crt Sojar Voglar and Andrej Makor.<\/p>\n<p>As jury member he participated at numerous International and National Competitions (Ohrid Pearl, Finalis, Emona, Prima la Musica Austria, Po\u017earevac).<\/p>\n<p>Since 2014 Du\u0161an Sodja has been playing on Seggelke clarinets of Bamberg (boxwood and grenadille). He has been using mouthpieces by Gleichweit (Vienna) for many years.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Du\u0161an Sodja studied clarinet with Alojz Zupan at the Ljubljana Academy of Music and at the University \u201cMozarteum\u201d in Salzbrug with Alois Brandhofer where he was awarded a Master&#8217;s degree. Since 1996 he is clarinetist soloist of the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra and teacher at the Ljubljana Conservatory of Music and Ballet. 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