Alenka Gotar

Biography

Alenka Gotar is a Slovanian soprano singer. She began her musical interest by attending a small music school where she learned piano and guitar. Afterwards, she attended music and ballet school in Ljubljana, where Markos Bajuk taught her solo singing. After graduating in 1996, she applied to study singing at the Musical Academy in Basel, Switzerland, and in 1999, she attended the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg, where she was taught by Lilijan Sukis. Alenka gained her diploma in 2000. In Salzburg, she continued studies in singing and opera , along with perfecting her craft in Rome. She gained her master’s degree in 2006. During the 2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Alenka Gotar stood as a parliamentary candidate for the Slovenian Democratic Party but, ultimately, did not gain a seat in the Slovenian National Assembly despite her party’s victory in the election.