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contributors

full-time throughout her period of study, and is still today, as a piano teach-
er at the Conservatory of Music and Ballet in Maribor, where the outstand-
ing results of her students in national and international competitions, in
which she served as mentor and accompanist, earned her the title of coun-
cillor in 2010.

Jernej Weiss (jernej.weiss@ag.uni-lj.si)
studied musicology at the Musicology Department of the University of
Ljub­ljana Faculty of Arts (1999–2002) and at the Institute of Musicology
of the Faculty of Philosophy, Art History, History and Humanities of the
University of Regensburg (2002–2003). From 2005 to 2009 he worked as a
teaching assistant in the Musicology Department of the Faculty of Arts in
Ljubljana, and since 2009 he has worked as a lecturer at the Ljubljana Acad-
emy of Music and at the Faculty of Education in Maribor. From 2011 to 2019
he served as the editor-in-chief of the main Slovene musicological publica-
tion Muzikološki zbornik, and he has also been involved in various Slovene
and international academic projects. Since 2016 he has been a full professor
of musicology at the University of Maribor, and since 2019 also at the Uni-
versity of Ljubljana. He has appeared as a guest lecturer at universities in
Graz, Brno, Leipzig, Cardiff and elsewhere. His research focuses on issues
related to music from the 19th century to the present day, especially mu-
sic that in one way or another has impacted the Slovene and Czech cultural
spheres. Since 2016 he has headed the international musicological symposi-
um Slovene Music Days, and he is the editor-in-chief of the collection of ac-
ademic monographs Studia musicologica Labacensia.

Maruša Zupančič (marusa.zupancic@zrc-sazu.si)
graduated in musicology at the University of Ljubljana in 2007. In the same
year, she got engaged as a junior researcher at the Institute of Musicology
ZRC SAZU. In 2012, she completed her Ph.D. at the University of Ljublja-
na with a dissertation on the development of violin playing in the Slovene
lands until the beginning of the Second World War. In 2006/2007 she stud-
ied at the Masaryk University in Brno and in 2008/2009 at the Charles Uni-
versity in Prague, where she was doing also an internship at The Institute
of Ethnology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. For sever-
al months, she furthered her studies in Boston, New York, Leuven, and Za-
greb. She regularly presents her findings at the International Musicological
Conferences and specializes in Digital Humanities in Göttingen, Oxford,
The Hague, and Budapest.

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