Professor Tomaž Kukovič began his musical career at the Kranj Music School in the class of Prof. Eva Krajnčan. He continued his studies at the Secondary School of Music and Ballet in Ljubljana with Prof. Igor Karlin and Prof. Dušan Sodja. At the Academy of Music he studied clarinet with Prof. Slavko Goričar. Today he is employed at the Kranj Music School, where he works as Assistant Headmaster, teaches clarinet and saxophone, chamber music and directs the Youth Wind and Symphonic Orchestras of the Kranj Music School. He started conducting at the age of 16 and throughout his studies he studied with masters Jan Cober (Netherlands), Douglas Bostock (Great Britain), Johannes Stert (Germany), Miro Saje and Uroš Lajovic (Slovenia).

He has been enthusiastic about orchestral playing for many years, having been a member of the Kranj Municipality Wind Orchestra for more than thirty years. From 2001 to 2007 he founded and conducted the Šenčur Municipality Wind Orchestra. In 2010 he founded the Cerklje Godba, which he still conducts today. He has led the Brezje Tambura Orchestra, the Tambura Orchestra and the singing group of the FS "Iskra Emeco" Kranj. In 2001 - 2004 he led the MePZ "Musica Viva" Kranj, conducted the Youth Wind Orchestra and the Symphonic Orchestra of the Vrhnika Music School. Since 2002, when he took over the position of conductor of the Youth Wind Orchestra of the Kranj Music School, and since 2009, when he founded the Symphonic Orchestra of the Kranj Music School, he has been conducting and skillfully "knitting" bonds of friendship between young people to this day.

With his sophisticated conducting technique and exceptional sense of soft orchestral playing, he has repeatedly impressed professional audiences both at home and abroad. In 2011, with the Kranj High School Youth Wind Orchestra, he won the Gold Award in the youngest category at the first youth orchestra competition in Slovenia, with a special commendation for the best performance of the competition's compulsory piece. Also in 2011, he and the Vrhnika School Youth Wind Orchestra won 1st place at the international orchestral competition in Hengelo (the Netherlands) and the Gold Award for the most promising orchestra at the competition. In 2011 and 2012 he was guest conductor of the youth orchestra at the international summer school "Orkesterkamp" in Portorož. His latest confirmation came in 2016, when he took part in the International Competition for Wind Orchestra Conductors in Hungary, organised by the Eastern European International Federation of Wind Orchestras (WASBE), and achieved the first 1st place in the 1st category and the 3rd place in the whole competition, which earned him the opportunity to conduct at the final concert of the competition.