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LAUNCH OF WINDRUSH 2024 PINOT GRIGIO
With Timotej Kosovinc, Slovenian guitarist & composer
You are invited to the Official Launch of our new 2024 Windrush VQA Pinot Grigio!
Sporting a distinguishable white cap, it has won the VQA appellation for excellence. Legendary Vintner Jim Warren has commented: “The 2024 Windrush Pinot Grigio is a lovely wine. The colour is the slightest pink, delicate and ‘pretty’. The immediate bouquet is of peaches, very inviting… The taste is slightly off dry and soft but the acidity hangs in through to the citrus (grapefruit) finish. The flavour is nicely persistent!”
What better pairing for our wines than music! Enjoy Slovenian Timotej Kosovinc as Europe’s celebrated guitar soloist! He is in Canada to perform, the following day, at the protocol event for the President of the Republic of Slovenia, Nataša Pirc Musar, visiting Canada for the first time in history.
A memorable afternoon of fine wines and music!
Your $45 reservation includes the concert and a reception with Windrush’s international award-winning VQA wines, treats and the artists. Guests under 19 or over 90 are free. Proceeds help empower underserved kids at youthLEADarts.com
Vienna-based Slovenian composer and guitarist Timotej Kosovinc is a laureate of numerous international competitions (Guitar Art Festival Belgrade Competition, Gorizia Guitar Competition, Forum Guitar Vienna Competition etc.) and a regular guest in prominent concert halls such as Musikverein (Vienna, Austria), MuTh – Theater of the Viennese Boys Choir (Austria), Belgrade Philharmonic Hall (Serbia), Cemal Reşit Rey Hall (Istanbul), Real Alcazar in Sevilla (Spain), Slovenian Philharmonic Hall or Cankarjev Dom (Slovenia) and in various festivals and concert series such as Wien Modern, Iserlohn Guitar Festival, Guitar Art Festival Belgrade, Forum Gitarre Wien, Liechtensteiner Gitarrentage or Festival de la Guitarra de Sevilla. His music is being performed regularly by him and others in various tours throughout the world. He also collaborates with many other musicians and artists in different groups and in international projects, especially in the duo with the cellist Cristina Basili. In 2022, his debut CD “The Good Moment” (Contrastes Records, distributed by Naxos Music and Universal), where he is performing his own guitar music, was released. The CD has received a lot of international attention leading to concerts in many important music festivals and concert venues throughout the world. In 2022 he was chosen as a representative composer of Slovenia as a part of the #Synergy Project (a collaboration of festivals in the west Balkan countries) and composed “Unheard Story” for flute, guitar, cello and piano during his residency in Prishtina. In 2023 this composition was performed in all of the participating festivals: KotorArt International Festival (Montenegro), Dubrovnik Summer Festival (Croatia), Cultural Centre Trebinje (Bosna und Herzegovina), Vox Baroque/Tirana Guitar Festival (Albania), ChopinPianoFEST Prishtina (Kosovo), Belgrade Festivals Center, BEMUS (Serbia) and Ljubljana Festival (Slovenia). He studied at the University of Music Vienna, where he studied guitar with professor Alvaro Pierri as well as composition and music theory with professor Detlev Müller-Siemens. For his exceptional academic achievements he was awarded the honor award of the Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Research of the Republic of Austria in 2019 and in 2020, he received the honor award of the University of Music Vienna for his guitar studies.
Links:
– TV show (RTV Slovenia): Kosovinc playing Barrios Mangoré: El ultimo tremolo, Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez & Kosovinc: Balcan Rage – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7qGnRZgb1M
– Kosovinc: Rock´n´Roll Sonata, III – The Last Dance (RTV Slovenia): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbM-AMO-Czo
– CD The Good Moment (works by Kosovinc only): https://open.spotify.com/album/5AIx7HiBpHsGd6v4kexzTe
– Further videos can be found on Kosovinc’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/timotejkosovincmusic/videos
