Vito Žuraj composes music that breathes, shines and surprises. His works combine acoustic precision with scenic imagination – and are performed worldwide by orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, Ensemble Modern and WDR Symphony Orchestra. The Slovenian composer studied with Marko Mihevc, Lothar Voigtländer and Wolfgang Rihm and has been awarded numerous prizes, including the Composition Prize of the City of Stuttgart and the Claudio Abbado Prize of the Berlin Philharmonic.
Since 2015, Žuraj has been teaching composition at the University of Ljubljana, where he is setting up a studio for electronic music. In his work IOMENA, he lets voices become wind – a poetic play with breath, movement and emotion. His music creates spaces between energy and silence, between body and sound. It seeks beauty in paradox and opens up new horizons for listening – light, floating, surprisingly intense.
