Trio MaRaKle was initiated in 2000 by Professor Tomaž Lorenz and consists of three students from the Academy of Music in Ljubljana - Matjaž Porovne (violin), Ravi Sherestha (guitar) and Klemen Leben (accordion). Trio Marakle has been very successful in playing modern compositions by Slovene composers such as Primož Ramovš, Tomaž Habe, Uroš Lajovic, Janez Gregorc, Brina Jež Brezavšček and Nina Šenk. It performed at the 2004 Mozarteum in Salzburg and in the 2004 Long Night of Music in Vienna, and in the same year visited Spain, where it participated in exchange programmes organised by Jeunesses Musicales International (JMI) and presented Tango Marakleano and other tango compositions by Črt Sojar Voglar. Trio MaRaKle has appeared successfully in competition at Werkersheim in Germany and has been awarded gold medals at the Vladimir Lovec-Ivan Šček Chamber Orchestra Competition in Koper-Capodistria and at the chamber orchestra competition in Pula, Croatia. In 2005 Trio MaRaKle's members studied at the Franz Liszt High School of Music in Weimar and in December 2006 they were invited by Weimar Institute for New Music to perform at Fürstensaal in Weimar, Germany.