Nana Forte is one of the most successful Slovenian composers of the younger/middle generation, creating compositions for solo instruments, chamber ensembles and orchestras, as well as operatic and choral compositions. She is one of the few Slovenian composers focused on creating choral music, for which she has received many awards.
Nana Forte completed her composition studies at the Ljubljana Academy of Music and then undertook postgraduate studies at the Carl Maria von Weber College of Music in Dresden and the Berlin University of the Arts. Her compositions can be heard at concerts and festivals all over the world (Austria, Italy, Hungary, Finland, the UK, Spain, Belgium, Germany, Portugal, Serbia, Sweden, USA, Korea and Singapore). In 2007, she represented Slovenia within the project European Ensemble Academy, which was organised by the German Music Council on the occasion of Germany’s presidency of the European Union. In the same year, her orchestral composition Genesis was performed at the festival Young Euro Classic in Berlin. Her choral composition Liberame was included in the programme of the Zagreb Music Biennale. Liberame also served as a set work in the final of the 5th Europa Cantat International Competition for Young Choral Conductors in Ljubljana in 2009, and has subsequently been performed extensively by both Slovenian and European choirs (APZ Tone Tomšič in Ljubljana, Norwegian Youth Choir, Swedish Radio Choir, Bavarian Radio Choir, SYC Ensemble Singers, Allmänna Sången, Via-nova-chor).
In 2011, Nana Forte represented Slovenia in the project MusmA (Music Masters on Air), which takes place in cooperation with ten festivals and in partnership with ten radio stations. She later attended the 2017 World Music Days in Vancouver, where the Victoria Symphony performed her work Zaklinjanje (Incantation).
In recent years, Nana Forte has been exploring the field of opera and musical theatre. Her operatic debut Paradie oder nach Eden was premiered in 2016 at the Vorarlberger Landestheater in Bregenz.
