Jure IvanuÅ¡iÄ (*1973) is a Slovene theatre and film actor, director,
playwright, concert pianist, composer, chansonnier and translator. He
studied drama at the Ljubljana Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and
Television and piano at the Universität für Musik und Darstellende
Kunst in Graz. On many Slovene theatre stages, he has created several
character roles (Pentheus in Euripides' Bacchae, Jerry in Albee's Zoo
Story, Lorenzo di Spadaro in Andreyev's Black Masks, Mozart in Amadeus
and Brindsley Miller in Shaffer's Black Comedy, Blue Morphan in
Shepard's Unseen Hand, Axel in Strindberg's Playing with Fire etc.)
for which he received the highest awards and recognitions both at home
and abroad. The play "Stoned Cabaret", which he wrote with the
physicist Peter Žiger, directed and contributed the musical part for
it, was, according to professional critics, considered the best
performance of the Maribor Slovene National Theatre season 1997/98. He
directed the hit "Tomorrow I'll start" by writer Desa Muck. With her
he also wrote the comedy thriller "Christmas Eve" that was premiered
at the Koper Theatre in 2008. In 2001, he directed the first Slovene
staging of "The Vagina Monologues" by Eve Ensler. He also maintains a
successful collaboration with the Croatian Ulysses Theatre on Brioni
Islands.IvanuÅ¡iÄ has played in many Slovene films (Outsider, Felix
and others) and created leading roles in feature films "Transition" by
Boris PalÄ iÄ , which received the audience award at the Portorož
Film Festival 2008, and in "On Earth as It Is in Heaven", the last
film of the late Franci Slak. His screenplay for the feature film
"Rabid Foxes" is currently in pre-production. The theatrical
performance "From Silence to Music" (which played over 300
performances), the "Prešeren Cabaret" and the screenplay for the
television feature "Who Wants to Be a Mozart" (in which IvanuÅ¡iÄ
played ten roles and received the Creative Gong Award by Vikend
magazine) were created in collaboration with co-screenwriter Marko
Vezovišek. He also played in several Slovene TV series and hosted TV
broadcasts and shows (Impromptu, Slovenian Pop Songs 2002 and 2008,
the State Ceremony to mark Slovenia's 2004 accession to NATO,
Slovenian Dialect Music Festival 2001â€"2003, UNICEF, St Nicholas
Charity Concert, Film Music Concert etc.). On Radio Slovenija he led,
together with RTV Big Band, the show "Playing with the Stars" hosting
actors who sing. The show also had a television version.As a concert
pianist he has performed works by Franz Liszt, Frédéric Chopin as
well as Mozart's Concerts for Piano and Orchestra K. 414, K. 449, K.
453 and K. 488 with the Maribor Philharmonic Orchestra and played at
concerts of the Maribor Music Artists Society. With Vanessa Redgrave,
he performed at UNICEF concerts in London, Syracuse and Warsaw. Since
1992, he has been giving concerts with Rade Šerbedžija around Europe
and the world. He also wrote the 'recession opera' "Eustachio and
Catherine" as well as the incidental music for the play "Black Masks"
for the opening of the Summer Festival of the Littoral in Koper in
2000.Authorial songs from the music and theatre project "I Was Close
to You" were later published on the album "Jure IvanuÅ¡iÄ & Gusarji:
Ob desetih zveÄ er" (ZKP, RTV 1999). IvanuÅ¡iÄ has repeated his
prizewinning success at the Festival of the Chanson (2001, 2005) and
of the Slovenian Pop Songs festival (2003). The performance for actor
and band entitled "The Heart in a Suitcase" was premiered in 2011 and
issued on the CD "Jure IvanuÅ¡iÄ & Nordunk: Srce v kovÄ ku" (Celinka
CEL CD 027); it includes authorial translations of the Belgian-French
chansonnier Jacques Brel.
playwright, concert pianist, composer, chansonnier and translator. He
studied drama at the Ljubljana Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and
Television and piano at the Universität für Musik und Darstellende
Kunst in Graz. On many Slovene theatre stages, he has created several
character roles (Pentheus in Euripides' Bacchae, Jerry in Albee's Zoo
Story, Lorenzo di Spadaro in Andreyev's Black Masks, Mozart in Amadeus
and Brindsley Miller in Shaffer's Black Comedy, Blue Morphan in
Shepard's Unseen Hand, Axel in Strindberg's Playing with Fire etc.)
for which he received the highest awards and recognitions both at home
and abroad. The play "Stoned Cabaret", which he wrote with the
physicist Peter Žiger, directed and contributed the musical part for
it, was, according to professional critics, considered the best
performance of the Maribor Slovene National Theatre season 1997/98. He
directed the hit "Tomorrow I'll start" by writer Desa Muck. With her
he also wrote the comedy thriller "Christmas Eve" that was premiered
at the Koper Theatre in 2008. In 2001, he directed the first Slovene
staging of "The Vagina Monologues" by Eve Ensler. He also maintains a
successful collaboration with the Croatian Ulysses Theatre on Brioni
Islands.IvanuÅ¡iÄ has played in many Slovene films (Outsider, Felix
and others) and created leading roles in feature films "Transition" by
Boris PalÄ iÄ , which received the audience award at the Portorož
Film Festival 2008, and in "On Earth as It Is in Heaven", the last
film of the late Franci Slak. His screenplay for the feature film
"Rabid Foxes" is currently in pre-production. The theatrical
performance "From Silence to Music" (which played over 300
performances), the "Prešeren Cabaret" and the screenplay for the
television feature "Who Wants to Be a Mozart" (in which IvanuÅ¡iÄ
played ten roles and received the Creative Gong Award by Vikend
magazine) were created in collaboration with co-screenwriter Marko
Vezovišek. He also played in several Slovene TV series and hosted TV
broadcasts and shows (Impromptu, Slovenian Pop Songs 2002 and 2008,
the State Ceremony to mark Slovenia's 2004 accession to NATO,
Slovenian Dialect Music Festival 2001â€"2003, UNICEF, St Nicholas
Charity Concert, Film Music Concert etc.). On Radio Slovenija he led,
together with RTV Big Band, the show "Playing with the Stars" hosting
actors who sing. The show also had a television version.As a concert
pianist he has performed works by Franz Liszt, Frédéric Chopin as
well as Mozart's Concerts for Piano and Orchestra K. 414, K. 449, K.
453 and K. 488 with the Maribor Philharmonic Orchestra and played at
concerts of the Maribor Music Artists Society. With Vanessa Redgrave,
he performed at UNICEF concerts in London, Syracuse and Warsaw. Since
1992, he has been giving concerts with Rade Šerbedžija around Europe
and the world. He also wrote the 'recession opera' "Eustachio and
Catherine" as well as the incidental music for the play "Black Masks"
for the opening of the Summer Festival of the Littoral in Koper in
2000.Authorial songs from the music and theatre project "I Was Close
to You" were later published on the album "Jure IvanuÅ¡iÄ & Gusarji:
Ob desetih zveÄ er" (ZKP, RTV 1999). IvanuÅ¡iÄ has repeated his
prizewinning success at the Festival of the Chanson (2001, 2005) and
of the Slovenian Pop Songs festival (2003). The performance for actor
and band entitled "The Heart in a Suitcase" was premiered in 2011 and
issued on the CD "Jure IvanuÅ¡iÄ & Nordunk: Srce v kovÄ ku" (Celinka
CEL CD 027); it includes authorial translations of the Belgian-French
chansonnier Jacques Brel.
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