Crt Lasbaher

The Slovenian conductor Črt Lasbaher (1996) has been playing the piano since he was 7 years old. As a young pianist, he took part in various competitions and masterclasses. After successfully passing the entrance exam in orchestral conducting, he began his studies with Prof. Marko Letonja, Prof. Simon Dvorsak and Prof. Marko Hribernik in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He also continued to play the piano actively and participated in international competitions in Niš, Serbia in the piano four-handed and solo categories (2018, 2019 and 2020). In December 2017 he conducted the premiere of the children' s opera Hobit with 7 repetitions in Ljubljana. He premiered two minute operas composed by his fellow composers (F. Lo Pinto and M. Romih) in Budapest, Brno and Ljubljana. Since October 2020, he has been in the conducting class of Prof. Johannes Wildner at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. He completed the Master' s degree programme at the Academy of Music Ljubljana in July 2022 and continues to study with Maestro Andres Orozco-Estrada. His first public appearance as a conductor was in Bucharest in the year 2013 with the Romanian National radio symphony orchestra as a part of a masterclass held by Professor Wolfgang Dörner from Graz. In November 2021 he participated in the masterclass with Prof. Yu Feng from the Central Conservatory of Music Beijing. With Donizettis opera buffa, L' elisir d' Amore, he celebrated his opera debut in the Slovenian national theatre in January 2022. In the same year he took part at the Wiener Schule conducting masterclass and competition where he reached semi-finale and won a special prize. His work is quite diverse, from conducting a church Choir in Grinzing, Vienna to the professional orchestras in Slovenia as the Slovenian Philharmonic and National theatre orchestra in Ljubljana.