Concert: Jazz Punt Big Band and Boštjan Gombač

The event will include the premiere performance of a new musical work by composer Žiga Stanič entitled Triakonta.

On 19 July 2025, a concert by the Jazz Punt Big Band and Boštjan Gombač will take place in Cerkno's Main Square. The event will include the premiere performance of a new musical work by composer Žiga Stanič entitled Triakonta, written for the Jazz Punt Big Band, Boštjan Gombač, who plays a replica of the oldest flute in the world, the tidldibab, and folk flutes.

Inspired by a series of questions about the function of music in the past and today, Stanič composed Triakonta using a polystylistic approach, both thematically and acoustically. In his words, the composition is "modern in some of its fissures, or perhaps at the same time primordial". The band, together with the soloist, will "unite all distances into one point and revive a long-forgotten mystical experience".

The Jazz Punt Big Band, celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, has performed over 200 concerts in Slovenia and abroad. At international big band competitions in Hungary (2013) and the Czech Republic (2015), the group won the gold plaque and achieved top marks. The band also performed at the famous Nišville Jazz Festival in Serbia and at the Šiauliai Big Band Festival in Lithuania.

Boštjan Gombač, one of Slovenia’s most versatile musicians (a member of Katalena and many other projects), developed a passion for instruments from around the world while studying the clarinet. A master of wind instruments, he is among the few in Slovenia who specialize in playing a reconstruction of the Neanderthal flute, from which he elicits incredibly rich and unusual sounds.

The concert is part of the project The Oldest Flute, which is included in the official programme of the European Capital of Culture 2025 Nova Gorica - Gorizia.