Anže Rupnik (*1996 in Celje, Slovenia) completed his studies (Bachelor of Music in 2019, Master of Music in 2021, Konzertexamen in 2023) with top marks under Prof. Daniel Gauthier at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. In 2015, he graduated with a high school diploma in “classical saxophone” under Professor Oskar Laznik at the Conservatory of Music and Ballet Ljubljana, Slovenia. Rupnik is a scholarship recipient of the 2022 Deutscher Musikwettbewerb. In 2021, he won the 1st Prize and the Audience Award at the August Everding Competition in Munich. As a saxophonist and member of the Xenon Quartet, he was a special prize winner and scholarship recipient of the 2017 Deutscher Musikwettbewerb. Additionally, he received a scholarship from the Posavje region in Slovenia, a Deutschlandstipendium, and from 2016 to 2019, he was a scholarship holder at Yehudi Menuhin’s Live Music Now Cologne.
Anže regularly performs as a soloist or as a member of various chamber music ensembles in Germany and abroad. Since 2016, he has been a member of the Xenon Saxophone Quartet and Ensemble 87. In 2023, he founded the Duo Anemos with accordionist Marko Trivunovic. He has been featured multiple times on the radio, including on WDR, MDR, SWR, NDR, and Deutschlandfunk. He frequently plays with renowned orchestras such as the Dortmund Philharmonic, Niedersächsisches Staatsorchester Hannover, and Rheinische Philharmonie Koblenz.
Anže Rupnik has premiered works by Georg Katzer, Lisa Streich, Daniel Alvarado Bonilla, Macarena Rosmanich, Damian Scholl, and Christoph Stöber, and has collaborated with renowned contemporary composers such as Georg Friedrich Haas, Mathias Spahlinger, José María Sánchez-Verdú, and Uroš Rojko. Since August 2021, he has been working as a saxophone teacher and department head at the Youth Music School in Heinsberg. Since October 2023, he has also been an assistant at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln.
