Irena Grafenauer

Irena Grafenauer (born 19 June 1957 in Ljubljana, Slovenia) is a Slovenian flute player and soloist, a pupil of Boris Čampa, Karlheinz Zöller and Aurèle Nicolet.

After graduating from the Academy of Music in Ljubljana in 1974, she continued her studies with Karlheinz Zöller and Aurèle Nicolet.

She has also worked regularly with the Berlin Philharmonic Duo Jörg Baumann and Klaus Stoll [de], pianists Oleg Maisenberg, Robert Levin, and Helmut Deutsch, guitarist Eliot Fisk, and the Cherubini String Quartet.

She has been contracted to record concertos and quartets by Mozart with members of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields and the French album with music by Debussy, Ravel, Ibert and Roussel.

At the same time, she also fell ill for chronic myeloid leukemia, a type of white blood cell cancer.