About us

Ana Kavcic Pucihar is recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship Award in the academic year 2014/2015.
As Head Instructor of Flute at Skofja Loka Music School (Slovenia) and active performer, she has been researching holistic approaches in teaching young beginning flute players for the past 10 years.

She collaborated with Blaz Pucihar on two internationally recognized collections of pieces for young flute players: Flavta se igra/Flute at Play and Lunina čarobna flavtica/Luna’s Magic Flute.
They merged practical experience of having intensively worked with children, theoretical concepts of effective learning and colorful musical imagination in their Flute Method book Igramo se flavto, published in 2013.
In her Fulbright project Effective Teaching strategies for flute beginners, translation and adaptation of the Pucihar Flute method, Ana Kavcic Pucihar collaborated with dr. Nicole Molumby and Blaz Pucihar at the Boise State University in Idaho to create an English translation of the method book – Fluting Stars.  Read more

Slovenian pianist, composer, and arranger Blaž Pucihar graduated with honors from the class of prof. Dubravka Tomšič-Srebotnjak at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana (Slovenia).
As a soloist, he has performed with several orchestras. He regularly works with many internationally recognized artists (Benoit Fromanger, Tadeu Coelho, Viviana Guzman, Pierre-Yves Artaud, Giampaolo Pretto, and others) on a variety of performance and recording projects.
Since 2003, he has been composing music for a range of instruments and ensembles. His reputation as a composer is growing internationally.
Piccolo Moods, his composition for piccolo and piano, was the winner of the NFA Newly Published Music Competition in 2014.
Blaž and his wife, flutist Ana Kavčič Pucihar, have created the young flute players’ flute book Flavta se igra/Flute at Play, and Lunina čarobna flavtica/Luna’s Magic Flute, a musical fairytale for flute and piano dedicated to children. Based on Blaž’s original fairy tale, the latter has also been choreographed into a ballet and a puppet-theater show. These shows have been performed in Slovenia, Austria, Germany, the UK, and the USA. Read more