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Bor Zuljan is active in various musical genres and plays many ancient, modern and traditional plucked instruments. Called the "Lute Revolutionary" (Le Soir), he rediscovers forgotten instruments, sounds and playing techniques, always expanding the range of possibilities.
He performs internationally as a soloist and with various groups: Doulce Mémoire, Tasto Solo, Graindelavoix, L'Achéron, Vox Luminis, Il Giardino Armonico, with the Teofilović brothers, in duo with Dušan Bogdanović and with Romain Bockler (Dulces Exuviae), as well as with his ensemble La Lyra.
Since 2011 he is the artistic director of the early music festival Flores Musicae in Slovenia. In 2013 the Slovenian Institute of Musicology published his critical edition of the lute works of Giacomo Gorzanis, a composer to whom he dedicated the first album of La Lyra Gorzanis - La barca del mio amore with the singer Pino De Vittorio (Arcana - Outhere Music, 2018). In 2019 he starts a series of albums for the Ricercar label (Outhere Music): Josquin - Adieu mes amours, the first CD of the duo Dulces Exuviae is already very well received by the specialized critics; the year after his first solo album Dowland - A Fancy wins the prestigious Diapason d'Or of the year 2020, the CHOC of Classica and the Editor's Choice of Gramophone, followed in 2022 by Gesualdo - Il liuto del Principe (Diapason d'Or, CHOC of Classica,...). Toutes les nuits, the new album by the duo Dulces Exuviae, which has just been released on the same label, was chosen as Gramophone magazine's album of the month for February 2023, also winning the Diapason d'Or and other awards. 
After finishing his studies of classical music and jazz at the Conservatory of Ljubljana, he continued his musical journey with Aniello Desiderio in Koblenz, Germany. In 2007 he moved to Geneva to study at the HEM of Geneva where he obtained a master's degree in classical guitar and lute (Dusan Bogdanovic, Jonathan Rubin), a master's degree in medieval music and a master's degree in pedagogy. Since 2011 he has been leading the HES-SO research project "Ricercar una fantasia" on the improvisation of fantasies on the lute in the 16th century, with which he is pursuing his doctoral studies at the Centre d'Études Supérieures de la Renaissance in Tours.
He regularly gives lectures and masterclasses at prestigious institutions such as the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice, the CNSMD in Lyon and the HEM in Geneva.

May 2023