Maruša Brezavšček is a Slovenian recorder, baroque bassoon, and dulcian player, specialising in early and contemporary music. She is based in Basel, Switzerland, and teaches recorder at the Ljubljana Academy of Music.

 

Maruša is the artistic director and recorder player of Ensemble Bastion, winners of the EUBO Trust Prize at the York Early Music International Young Artists Competition 2024, and selected for the S-EEEMERGING programme 2025–26. She regularly performs Renaissance repertoire with Capella Helvetica, and was formerly co-director of Ensemble Pampinea, with whom she won First Prize at the London International Festival of Early Music competition.

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Her awards as a soloist include multiple First Prizes at the Tel Aviv Recorder Festival (2020) and the ERPS Competition in Graz (2016), as well as the Ivan Werner Award for artistic achievement (2021). She has been supported by the Slovenian Ministry of Culture, Lyra Foundation, and other cultural institutions.

 

She has performed as a soloist with the Capricornus Consort Basel, Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra, Musica Cubicularis, and the Chamber Ensemble of the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra, appearing in festivals such as London International Festival of Early Music, York Early Music Festival, Erasmus klingt! Festival Lab, Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht, Innsbrucker Festwochen, Seviqc Brežice, Radovljica Festival, Tartini Festival, Flores Musicae and Musica Cortese.
 

Maruša studied at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and Mozarteum Salzburg, with further training in Barcelona and Brescia. Her teachers include Dorothee Oberlinger, Pedro Memelsdorff, Antonio Politano, Han Tol, Andreas Böhlen, Kathrin Bopp, Josep Borras, Donna Agrell and Carles Cristóbal.

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She appears on several recordings, including Slovenian National RTV, and frequently premieres new works for recorder by Slovenian and international composers.