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ja Koter, BOJAN ADAMIÈ: THE CORRELATION BETWEEN HIS CREATIVE AND ...
Darja Koter
The Academy of Music at the University of Ljubljana
BOJAN ADAMIÈ: THE CORRELATION BETWEEN HIS CREATIVE
AND PERFORMING LIFE
Abstract: The article introduces Bojan Adamiè as a broadly educated, versatile and multi-talented
musician, focusing on his general and musical education, and his activities in several other areas.
Emphasis is placed the reciprocity of Adamiè’s performing and creative activities in classical music,
jazz, dance music, compositions for various brass ensembles, and in his creations in film music,
popular song, and chanson.
Keywords: education, talent, creativity, performance art, classical music, jazz, film music, dance
music, brass ensembles, popular song, chanson.
Bojan Adamiè, (1912-1995), born in Ribnica, was a pianist, composer, conductor, music
arranger, editor, versatile music performer, and a photographer.1 At the time of Bojan’s
birth, his father Anton (brother of the composer Emil Adamiè) was working as a tax
official in Ribnica in the Dolenjska region, where he also married Marija Nosan. Bojan’s
future musical vocation was mapped out within the family circle. His father, an amateur
pianist and choir conductor, started to give his son piano lessons at the age of four, while
his mother, who also had a talent for music, often sang to her children. The Ribnica brass
band also played an important role in Bojan’s interest in music. According to an anecdote,
he hung around the musicians so much that they eventually named him “our conductor
with a broom”, because he used a broomstick to beat time while the orchestra played their
marches. In 1921 the Adamiè family moved to Ljubljana, where Bojan completed primary
school (he attended the six-year municipal boys’ school, later renamed Ledina Primary
School. He attended piano lessons at the music school of the Glasbena Matica Music
Society from the age of ten. When he was sixteen (school year 1928/29), he entered the
Conservatoire in Ljubljana and became a student of Anton Ravnik (1895-1989), a pianist
of excellent education, who remained his professor even when Adamiè attained a higher
level of education.2 Remembering his early years of piano study, Adamiè said: “I felt as if
a whole new world would open up for me. I was 14 when I had my first public
performance. My hands were very deft already and in this respect I was a real surprise for
my professor. Technique was not a particular problem for me; however, if I had practiced
more, I would have been better.”3 After primary school, he enrolled in the II. State
Secondary Grammar School, later renamed Gimnazija Poljane Upper Secondary School,
and graduated in 1931. As a grammar school student he took an interest in various
activities, one of them gliding, eventually passing the glider pilot exam and testing his
gliding skills in Velike Bloke during vacations. He also learned to play the organ and even
1 The authors acknowledge the financial support from the state budget of the Slovenian Research Agency
(project No. P6-0376).
2 Biographical data on Bojan Adamiè were resumed after composer’s documented memoirs and other
sources from the family archive kept by his daughter Alenka, as well as after websites that have edited his
sister Antonija Levart and his daughter Alenka Adamiè according to preserved documents and short
biographical publications existing so far.
3 Biographical data with quotations are published on website Bojan Adamiè, accessible at
http://www.bojan-adamic.si/biografija#uvodinbio, May 14th, 2012.
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Darja Koter
The Academy of Music at the University of Ljubljana
BOJAN ADAMIÈ: THE CORRELATION BETWEEN HIS CREATIVE
AND PERFORMING LIFE
Abstract: The article introduces Bojan Adamiè as a broadly educated, versatile and multi-talented
musician, focusing on his general and musical education, and his activities in several other areas.
Emphasis is placed the reciprocity of Adamiè’s performing and creative activities in classical music,
jazz, dance music, compositions for various brass ensembles, and in his creations in film music,
popular song, and chanson.
Keywords: education, talent, creativity, performance art, classical music, jazz, film music, dance
music, brass ensembles, popular song, chanson.
Bojan Adamiè, (1912-1995), born in Ribnica, was a pianist, composer, conductor, music
arranger, editor, versatile music performer, and a photographer.1 At the time of Bojan’s
birth, his father Anton (brother of the composer Emil Adamiè) was working as a tax
official in Ribnica in the Dolenjska region, where he also married Marija Nosan. Bojan’s
future musical vocation was mapped out within the family circle. His father, an amateur
pianist and choir conductor, started to give his son piano lessons at the age of four, while
his mother, who also had a talent for music, often sang to her children. The Ribnica brass
band also played an important role in Bojan’s interest in music. According to an anecdote,
he hung around the musicians so much that they eventually named him “our conductor
with a broom”, because he used a broomstick to beat time while the orchestra played their
marches. In 1921 the Adamiè family moved to Ljubljana, where Bojan completed primary
school (he attended the six-year municipal boys’ school, later renamed Ledina Primary
School. He attended piano lessons at the music school of the Glasbena Matica Music
Society from the age of ten. When he was sixteen (school year 1928/29), he entered the
Conservatoire in Ljubljana and became a student of Anton Ravnik (1895-1989), a pianist
of excellent education, who remained his professor even when Adamiè attained a higher
level of education.2 Remembering his early years of piano study, Adamiè said: “I felt as if
a whole new world would open up for me. I was 14 when I had my first public
performance. My hands were very deft already and in this respect I was a real surprise for
my professor. Technique was not a particular problem for me; however, if I had practiced
more, I would have been better.”3 After primary school, he enrolled in the II. State
Secondary Grammar School, later renamed Gimnazija Poljane Upper Secondary School,
and graduated in 1931. As a grammar school student he took an interest in various
activities, one of them gliding, eventually passing the glider pilot exam and testing his
gliding skills in Velike Bloke during vacations. He also learned to play the organ and even
1 The authors acknowledge the financial support from the state budget of the Slovenian Research Agency
(project No. P6-0376).
2 Biographical data on Bojan Adamiè were resumed after composer’s documented memoirs and other
sources from the family archive kept by his daughter Alenka, as well as after websites that have edited his
sister Antonija Levart and his daughter Alenka Adamiè according to preserved documents and short
biographical publications existing so far.
3 Biographical data with quotations are published on website Bojan Adamiè, accessible at
http://www.bojan-adamic.si/biografija#uvodinbio, May 14th, 2012.
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