Maruša
Brezavšček

Maruša Brezavšček is a Slovenian recorder player specialising in early and contemporary music, and also performs on the baroque bassoon and dulcian. Based in Basel, Switzerland, she appears internationally as a soloist, chamber musician and artistic director of Ensemble Bastion.

She has won first prizes at the Tel Aviv Recorder Festival Competition and the European Recorder Players' Society Competition in Graz, and received the Ivan Werner Award for her solo performance at the Varaždinske barokne večeri. Her Ensemble Bastion received the EUBO Trust Prize at the York Early Music International Young Artists Competition and was selected for the S-EEEMERGING Programme 2026–27.

As a soloist, she performed with ensembles including Capricornus Consort Basel, Musica Cubicularis, the Croatian Baroque Ensemble, the Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra and the Chamber Ensemble of the Slovenska Filharmonija. She has appeared at festivals and concert series such as the York Early Music Festival, London International Festival of Early Music, ReRenaissance – Forum Frühe Musik, Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik, Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht, Seviqc Festival, Radovljica Festival and Varaždinske barokne večeri.

Alongside her performing career, Maruša teaches recorder at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana. She has appeared on recordings by Slovenian National RTV, on several CDs, and has premiered numerous works by Slovenian and international composers.