Cellist Ariel Vei Atanasovski (b. 2002 in Maribor) successfully completed his studies at the Gustav Mahler University of Music in Klagenfurt (with Igor Mitrović) and at the Maribor Conservatory of Music and Ballet (with Nikolaj Sajko) in 2021. While still a student at the Maribor Conservatory, he received the Klasinc Award for highly successful and talented students. Currently he studies with Johannes Krebs at the University of Music and Theater Arts in Graz.
He has been active as a soloist and chamber musician from a very young age and has since earned a number accolades at competitions, including at the TEMSIG national competition in 2021 and 2018, and winning First Prize at the 2018 Euritmia Povoletto competition, where he also earned a gold plaque with the Libero piano trio. He won Third Prize at the 2020 TEMSIG national competition and First Prize with the Aeternum piano trio at the Svirel 2018 international competition.
Further successful concerts include solo appearances with the Symphony Orchestra of the Slovenian National Theatre Maribor at a state celebration dedicated to Rudolf Maister and with the Maribor Conservatory of Music and Ballet symphony orchestra. As a member of the Aeternum and Libero trios he has given several concerts in Slovenia and Serbia, including at the Narodni dom Maribor Cultural Center, SNG Drama Ljubljana and in Linhart Hall of Cankarjev dom. He has also performed as a soloist in his father Vasko Atanasovski’s ensemble.
