Seviqc Brežice 2021

Seviqc Brežice: The most beautiful concerts of early music with top artists from all over the world in the most beautiful historical venues of Slovenia.

Seviqc Brežice is an early music festival based on three development pillars: early music, cultural heritage, and cultural tourism. We work on cross regional integration of cultural heritage and festival sites. We are striving for decentralisation of Slovenian culture and development of national early music scene. The festival artists are selected on the base of quality, inventiveness and coherence of programme proposals, research musicological access, and promotional support to our festival.

We started Seviqc Brežice programme with master classes in 1982 in Radovljica and developed local early music festival. In 1997 we moved festival to Brežice and started to include into our festival structure also other districts. Since 1997 we organised 758 events in Slovenia, at 107 historical and 20 non-historical venues in 53 Slovenian municipalities: 614 early music concerts, 65 festival upbeats (chat with artists and presentation of a local landmark), 10 retrospective film screenings, 12 promotional events, 7 exhibitions, 13 workshops, 11 residences with young talented artists (eeemerging project), 20 lectures, and 6 symposiums or conferences. Beside this, and in coproduction with our foreign partners, 33 concerts abroad (Croatia, Italy) appeared as a part of Seviqc Brežice programme, so altogether 791 events under label Seviqc Brežice. At these events 1860 different artists of 53 citizenships appeared. We are member of REMA (http://www.rema-eemn.net/), the only representative network for Early Music in Europe, I am the coordinator of REMA National Committee for South East Europe and since 2015, when started, we are awarded with EFFE label (http://www.effe.eu/). As partner we participated in European projects Purpur (2011-2012, 2013-2014) and eeemerging (2014-2018).

Seviqc Brežice is a generator of the region. We reminded the local public of the importance of their cultural heritage and contributed to the development of other events there. We encouraged local communities to renovate their abandoned historical venues (like Pišece Castle) and supported them at renovation activities. With support projects (festival upbeats, contact groups, Festibus, assistant workshops, lectures, round tables, exhibitions) our programme was brought to the local and wider public. The Terminal Seviqc project represents the local environment offer. Visitors decide to visit our festival for the programme (24,71%), our reputation (21,32%), festival venues (20,74%) and the artists (20,69%). In 2020 78,63% visitors came from other districts.