Education
He went completed his study of chamber music and composition at home in Slovenia, in Hungary and in France.
He went completed his study of chamber music and composition at home in Slovenia, in Hungary and in France.
Nenad Firšt received a high school musical education at the Zagreb High School of Music before moving to Ljubljana to study at the Ljubljana Academy of Music under Dane Škerl (composition) and Rok Klopčič (violin). In 1982 he joined the Croatian Sebastian string quartet, from Zagreb, with which he toured nationally and internationally until 1992. In 1988 he moved to live in Celje, Slovenia, where he is the artistic director and conductor of the Celje String Orchestra.
He is also the director of the Celje Institute for Cultural Performances.
Between 1993 and 1998, he was President of the Musical Youth organisation and he has been artistic director of Musical Youth"s International Music Camp at Dolenjske Toplice since 1996. (The prestigious awards are named in honour of Slovenia"s national poet, France Prešeren).
His work for chamber orchestra "Odeon" was performed by the KOS Decision Support System Chamber Orchestra on a tour of Germany in 2008 as part of the cultural programme celebrating Slovenia"s Presidency of the European Union. His instrumentation, always in the service of expression, often explores interesting and unfamiliar sound colours — sometimes thick and full, other times randomly dispersed and mysterious.".