Borut Lesjak was a Slovenian composer and arranger, who was born on May 25th, 1931 in Ljubljana, he died in August 25th, 1995 in Ljubljana. He studied piano at Academy for music in Ljubljana and finished it in the year 1954. Most of his life he worked as an independent cultural worker. He mastered most of the musical genres. He composed music for radio, movie, theater, television, as well as for Jazz ensembles and symphonic bands. With composition Ne čakaj na maj (en. Do not wait for May) he wrote him self in a history of Slovenian pop songs. His spot in musical history he earned with versatilely creativeness, which derived from the love of music.

He finished high school as instrumentalist – clarinetist, but he marks this time as his youthful misconception. At the dance orchestra, he played saxophone, but he later returned to his instrument – piano. In a time of the silent movie, he played a piano at projections of the movie, which was a great pleasure to him. In that time people said, let’s go listen to Lesjak, and maybe some, let’s go watch the movie.

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