Nejc Lavrenčič is a concert pianist and pedagogue in the field of piano solo, chamber music and interpretation of art song. He performs in Slovenia, Austria, Belgium, Croatia, France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, and his concert tours have taken him to USA, Canada and Asia. He began his music studies at the SGBŠ Maribor in the class of Tatjana Dvorak, and continued at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels in the class of A. Madžar and J. Michiels. He was also a protégé of pianist and pedagogue Marina Horak for many years.

In addition to piano, he also has a Master’s degree in chamber music, and obtained specialization in the field of art song interpretation under Udo Reinemann and his guest artists.

Nejc collaborates with renowned foreign and Slovene artists such as singers Sabina Cvilak, Nuška Drašček, Marcos Fink, Barbara Jernejčič Fürst, Soumaya Hallak, David Jagodic, Katja Konvalinka, Juliette de Massy, Theresa Plut, Cristina Segura, Arianna Rinaldi, Artur Rożek, Mojca Vedernjak, Darko Vidic, Irena Yebuah Tiran, Nataša Zupan, and instrumentalists Alja Mandič Faganel, Žiga Faganel, Oleguer Aymamí Busqué, Isabel Dunlop, Magdalena Sas, Andrej Zupan, Luka Železnik, orchestra director Karen Kapferer and others.

He is the recipient of several awards at international competitions and scholarships, and is recognised for creativity in his field. He regularly records for Radio Slovenia.

Currently, he is a professor and head of the piano department at Amarilis Music School, and an accompanist at the Singing Department of the Ljubljana Academy of Music at Ljubljana University.

He serves as a jury member at international competitions. Many of his pupils and students are prize winners at national and international competitions.

He is the artistic director of the PerArtem Cultural and Artistic Institute and it’s Samospevanje concert cycle at the Slovenian Philharmonic and the Slovene National Theater and Opera Maribor as well as PAF – PerArtem Festival. Nejc Lavrenčič initiated and organises international Erasmus+ projects: YES – Young Europe Sings and MIND – Music Inspires New Directions.

In 2019, he was a scholarship holder of the Ministry of Culture, which recognized his work with:

»Pianist Nejc Lavrenčič is considered one of the most prominent Slovenian performers in the genre of art song and chamber music. […] Both in terms of volume and quality, he shows important contributions to Slovene culture […] As a pianist and specialist, he enriches the Slovene cultural scene with excellent musicianship in the genre of art song and thus makes an important contribution to the development of the instrumentalist’s profession in Slovenia.«