29. Music from Famous Movies and Video Games

Rahela Durič

Conductor

Rahela Durič (she/her) is from Maribor, Slovenia, where she began her professional musical career. After graduating in violin, she studied choir and orchestra conducting under Johannes Prinz and Wolfgang Dörner at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, completing her master’s in 2013. In 2015, as part of the International Competition for Young Conductors in Turin, she received the Noel Minet prize and funding for a promising young conductor. Since 2016, she has worked as a senior lecturer in choir conducting under Johannes Prinz, and from 2023 under Benjamin Lack, at the University for Music and Performing Arts in Graz. In 2019 she received first prize, the audience prize and the choir's prize for best conductor at the International Aegis Carminis Competition for Choral Conductors in Koper (Slovenia). She leads and runs courses, singing weeks and seminars in choir schools across Europe.

In October 2021 Durič became artistic director of the renowned Academic Choir Tone Tomšič, University of Ljubljana. They have won multiple awards together at international competitions, including the International Choir Competition in Spittal (Austria) in 2023, the Naša Pesem Competition (Slovenia), and the International Baltic Sea Choir Competition in Jurmala (Latvia) in 2025.