Peter Kus is composer, puppet theatre director, instrument builder and educator from Ljubljana, Slovenia. In his latest projects he is exploring the field where music and theatre meet. The results are puppet/musical performances like Black Kitchen (2004), The Voice (2005), Tristan Vox (2006), A King Listens (2007), The Lost Tone (2010), The Forest of Songs (2012), Bing, Bang, Boing – the noise making boy (2014) and Sound Kitchen (2015). He also investigates other puppet theatre techniques such as video (The Singing Castle, 2011) and shadows (Wolfheart, 2015). The performances were invited to numerous international festivals and received many awards for music and originality.

Peter Kus is also original musical instrument’s designer and builder. In September 2008 he conceived a widely appraised series of exhibitions of original musical instruments Euphonia, presented in various towns in Slovenia. From 2012 to 2015 his exhibition The Garden of Sound was presented in Reims (France), Wels (Austria), Ljubljana (Slovenia), Šibenik, Osijek and Rijeka (all in Croatia) and Kotor (Montenegro). In October 2010 he published a guide book The Singing Castle, a Guide for Making Original Instruments in the form of a comic book together with the illustrator Kaja Avberšek.

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