Multi-award-winning and internationally successful Žigan and Kristijan Krajnčan combine vocals, cello, percussion, and dance into a stunning odyssey that uses unwavering energy to sail between different genres, generations, temperaments, and emotions.

Žigan Krajnčan (1995) has a major breath of fresh air on the Slovenian art scene over the last few years. Musician, dancer, choreographer, director, actor and performer, Žigan’s creative attention spans across different corners of the world, where he develops the idea of integral creation, all while always striving to expand, fuse, and push the boundaries of genre and style. His artistic journey through his successful career, embellished with a series of awards, took him to the USA, China, all across Europa, and Africa, where he learned of different cultural patterns that he absorbed, reinvented, and introduced into his own artistic projects with an openness that has always been a calling card of his.

Kristijan Krajnčan, DrummingCellist
Žigan Krajnčan, SingingDancer

About Kristjan Krajnčan

Kristijan Krajnčan is making a name for himself as one of the most prominent European artists of his generation. A virtuoso both on the cello and on drums, composer, and movie maker, Kristijan is fusing diverse art forms and always refuses to be pinned down by single-art labels. His work is characterized by exploration and the ambition to combine classical storytelling with modern creative techniques.

Kristijan earned numerous awards across many fields of art; he was the first winner of the Jazzon award for best Slovenian jazz composition, the first award at the national competition of classical musicians of Slovenia, and earned rave reviews at the Seifert Competition for jazz strings in Poland, where he won a special award for artistic value and original playing style. He can also be rightfully proud of having made it to the semi-finals at the Thelonious Monk Jazz Competition for Drums in Washington (USA).

His solo project saw him release four albums: DrummingCellist (2017), on which he arranged Bach’s Suite No. 2 and Arvo Pärt’s Fratres for cello and jazz drums; Abraxas (2019), for which he wrote original music inspired by world mythologies and C. G. Jung’s work; Floating Sand (2021), on which he collaborated with his father, conductor and music arranger Lojze Krajnčan, and the RTV Slovenia Big Band; and his latest album entitled Zabučale gore / The Mountains Roared (2022), on which he reinterpreted Slovenian folk music through contemporary classical and improvisational concepts.