Having graduated from the conservatories in Maribor and Klagenfurt, Maribor cellist Ariel Vei Atanasovski is currently in his second year of study at the Graz University of Music and Performing Arts. He has been active in various areas of music from a young age and has enjoyed success at numerous competitions, including the first prize in the cello at the 2018 Euritmia Povoletto Competition, second prize at the 2018 TEMSIG national competition and first prize with the chamber ensemble Trio Aeternum at the 2018 Svirel International Music Competition. Of particular note were his outstanding performances at the presentation of the Klasinc Awards, where he appeared as a soloist with the Maribor Conservatory Orchestra, and at the state celebration marking the centenary of Rudolf Maister, where he performed as a soloist with the Symphony Orchestra of the Slovene National Theatre Maribor. Ariel Vei Atanasovski has also appeared as a soloist with the ensemble of his father, Vasko Atanasovski, at Narodni dom Maribor, the Slovene National Theatre Drama Ljubljana and in the Linhart Hall in Ljubljana’s Cankarjev dom.
