Ambrož Čopi (1973) was born in Bovec (Slovenia). Having completed the Secondary Music and Ballet School in Ljubljana he went on to study composition and piano at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana and in 1996 graduated in the composition class of Dane Škerl; he completed his post-graduate studies in the class of Uroš Rojko. His compositions received awards at numerous composer competitions. His compositions are included on copyrighted CD’s: Lyrical Aquarelles (by the Academic choir APZ Tone Tomšič, conducted by Stojan Kuret) and Birdies were still dreaming (ČarniCe, conductor Stojan Kuret), as well as on various CDs by national and foreign choirs. His compositions were published by the publishing houses Astrum, DSS, and Sulasol. For his outstanding achievements during his study Ambroz Copi was awarded the Young Musician Award in 1995, in 1997 he won the Prešeren Prize of the University of Ljubljana and was upon merit awarded the Bovec Municipal Award in 1997.

Since 1999 he has been teaching aural, harmony, counterpoint, fundamentals of composition and chamber music at the Art Grammar School in Koper. He also conducts the Youth Mixed Choir of Art Grammar School Koper, the Youth Mixed Choir of Conservatory of Music Ljubljana and the Chamber Orchestra “Vladimir Lovec”.

Already at the time of his study he founded the Chamber Choir Iskra Bovec (1992), which he led and conducted for ten years with great success. In 1998 he took the conductor’s position in the newly founded Nova Gorica Chamber Choir (till 2004) and in the Mixed Choir Obala Koper (till 2007); since 2004 he has been the conductor of the Academic Choir of the University of Primorska. The choirs brought him 12 gold medals from national competitions and 18 first places and several gold awards from competitions in Italia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Prague, Croatia, Lithuania, Poland, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Netherlands, Greece, Austria, Spain and USA.

For his interpretations he was awarded several special prizes; he further received prizes for exceptional achievements with the choir, and was selected the best conductor of the competition. In 2009 he was awarded the Gold Medal of the University of Primorska for the achievements with the APZ UP choir. Among his great successes are also his music tours to Iceland, France, Italy, Austria, Hungary, England, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

As professional adjudicator and member of the competition juries he is regularly invited to various choral events and competitions, and as a lecturer he is involved in choral music seminars at home and abroad.