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Art School
In 1999 the Slovene Ministry of Sport and Education
first granted a programme of secondary musical education to the
Primorska region. Within the Koper High School the Art School was
established consisting of the visual arts and the music departments.
The five years of consistent work has brought about outstanding
results, which are the evidence of the quality and high standard of
our work – the work of our pupils, teachers, parents, expert workers
and the Ministry. Our first graduates are pursuing their music studies
at the academies in Slovenia, Italy, Austria, Germany and France.
The expert workers at the Koper High School and the
Koper Music School are well aware of the fact that the future of the
young lies in education, therefore we strongly keep in touch with the
individual needs of the young artists. The pupils of the Art School
have been the reason for inviting numerous distinguished visiting
lecturers from Slovenia and abroad to the Koper Music School.
The Slovene Istria is growing into the third
Slovene university centre, which will need a more coherent cultural
scheme than exists now. The founding of the University of Primorska is
the fact which will in the following years attract a growing number of
the young to our town.
The coastal towns have been profoundly marked by
the activities of the composers Antonio Tarsia, Giuseppe Tartini,
Vladimir Lovec, Ivan Šček, Aldo Kumar, Ambrož Čopi, Bojan Glavina,...
The lack of the Art School would greatly impair the artistic pulse of
our town and would lead to a cultural apathy, which would seriously
undermine the town's identity. Artistic creativity will remain the
symbol of regeneration, growth and new life. We are aware that we are
responsible for the young artists in achieving their high goals and we
have years ago set our minds to helping them in their pursuits. Some
of the young artists might not continue their studies at the
university level, but all of them will be distinguished by the rich
and invaluable dimension, which is art.
Marija Gombač
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