Announcing two events:
Friday, 29 August 2008, Zadar, Church of St. Donat:
Private concert for Andrew Harper members.
Saturday, 30 August 2008, Split, Peristil
Appearance at 4. Runjićeve večeri (broadcast on Croatian Television, HRT 1, 2115).
Posted on August 26th, 2008 in Quartet News |
Zagreb Guitar Quartet with Klasja Modrušan at the concert in Zadar, 8 August 2008. Photos by Vladimir Ivanov and Marin Gospić.
Posted on August 21st, 2008 in Quartet News |
E-zadar.hr journalist Antonija Gospić writes:
Skilled musicians of the Zagreb Guitar Quartet, together with the exquisite singer Klasja Modrušan, again showed their virtuosity in front of the Zadar audience and confirmed their status as one of the world’s leading groups among the classical guitar field.
Photo gallery from the ezadar.hr portal.
Festival official report:
Institut HAZU u Zadru rijetko je korišten javni prostor iako predstavlja jedno od najreprezentativnijih gradskih zdanja. Vrt vile obitelji Tamino izgrađene 1912., danas Zavod HAZU, sinoć je kao koncertni prostor naprosto zablistao. Publika je na terasi uz pogled prema Zadarskom kanalu i otocima u toploj ljetnoj večeri uživala uz iskusan ansambl mladih glazbenika i nositelja niza međunarodno priznatih nagrada – Zagrebački gitaristički kvartet.
U interpretaciji djela Piazzole, Ville-Lobosa, Ginastere, Machada, Merlina i Josipovića, Kvartet nas je vodio kroz zvuke klasične glazbe inspirirane strastvenim latinskim plesnim ritmovima. Samba i tango u suvremenom klasičnom ruhu izvrsno su pristajali Zagrebačkom gitarističkom kvartetu, a ukrasila ga je sopranistica Klasja Modrušan u Bachiani no. 5 Heitora Ville - Lobosa i Sambi Vocalis Ive Josipovića.
Posted on July 21st, 2008 in Quartet News |
48th Musical Evenings in St Donat
International Summer Festival of Music & Architecture
Saturday, 19 July 2008 - 9:00 PM
Courtyard of the HAZU Institute, Address: Obala kneza Trpimira 8 (map)
FROM SAMBA TO TANGO
ZAGREB GUITAR QUARTET
KLASJA MODRUŠAN, soprano
A. Piazzolla, H. Villa-Lobos, A. Ginastera, C. Machado, J. L. Merlin, I. Josipović
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Upcoming concerts:
3 August - Rovinj
8 August - Osor
Posted on July 10th, 2008 in Quartet News |
In the latest issue of Vijenac, Alenka Bobinsky reviews the Quartet’s Zagreb Guitar Days concert:
Like musicians touched by a magic wand, they delight in playing chamber music. Albeit all are true virtuosi, it occurs to none of them to impose with their personal qualities.
Baroque and Rococo program during the first half of the concert, arranged and performed brilliantly enough to please even the most highbrow critic and the most passionate music conoisseur.
Complete mutual understanding of the young guitarists, absolutely coordinated openings and closings, splendidly played pianissimos and passionate, yet style congruent fortissimos left not a trace of doubt that the Quartet understood the literature they took up. It was the Baroque we love and long to hear, the Baroque sounding at moments as if played on the most precious harpsichord.
Read the entire text here (in Croatian).
Posted on June 15th, 2008 in Quartet News |
Monday, 23 June 2008 - 8:00 PM
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Venue: Bošnjački institut (Bosnian Institute)
Address: Mula Mustafe Bašeskije 21, phone: +387 33 279 800
ZAGREB GUITAR QUARTET
Tomislav Vasilj, Krunoslav Pehar, Melita Ivković, Mak Grgić
Program:
Georg Friedrich Händel: Suite no. 5 in E major, HWV 430
Prélude-Allemande-Courante-Air
Jean-Philippe Rameau: Gavotte et 6 doubles
Joaquín Turina: Cinq danses gitanes, op. 84
Fiesta de las calderas. Circulos ritmicos. Invocacíon. Danza ritmica. Seguiriya
Sephardic Songs: Hora ali, Ocho kandelikas, Simhat Tora
Celso Machado: Folguedo
(All compositions are arranged for four guitars by Ante Čagalj, except piece by Machado which is arranged for the Zagreb Guitar Quartet by the author)
Posted on June 14th, 2008 in Quartet News |
Watch the clip from Slovenian television RTS featuring the Zagreb Guitar Quartet: Kulturna Zakladnica - AS - 20 05 2008.wmv
Posted on May 23rd, 2008 in Quartet News |
Sunday, 25 May 2008 - 7:30 PM
Zagreb, Croatia
Zagreb Guitar Days (festival)
Venue: Galerija Kranjčar
Address: Kaptol 26
Tickets: phone +385916354824
ZAGREB GUITAR QUARTET
Georg Friedrich Händel: Suite no. 5 in E major, HWV 430
(Prélude-Allemande-Courante-Air)
Jean-Philippe Rameau: Gavotte et 6 doubles
Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude and Fugue in C major, BWV 531. Prelude and Fugue in G major, BWV 541
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Tomislav Uhlik: Quartetto concertante
(Allegro alla marcia - Larghetto - Allegro)
Joaquín Turina: Cinq danses gitanes, op. 84
(Fiesta de las calderas. Circulos ritmicos. Invocacíon. Danza ritmica. Seguiriya)
Celso Machado: Folguedo
(All compositions are arranged for four guitars by Ante Čagalj, except piece by Uhlik which is dedicated do the Zagreb Guitar Quartet, and piece by Machado arranged for the Zagreb Guitar Quartet by the author)
It is the opening event of this year’s Zagreb Guitar Days Festival.
Guitar Days Festival 2008: http://www.antecagalj.com/index.php
Festival history: http://www.antecagalj.com/hr/?page_id=8
Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=15745396994&ref=mf
Last.FM event: http://www.last.fm/event/600800
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For those who will not be able to come, the quartet will perform another concert, with shorter program:
Zagreb, Croatia
Venue: Scena Travno
Address: Božidara Magovca 17
Tickets and info: http://www.kdz.hr/index.php?p=contact
ZAGREB GUITAR QUARTET
Georg Friedrich Händel: Suite no. 5 in E major, HWV 430
(Prélude-Allemande-Courante-Air)
Jean-Philippe Rameau: Gavotte et 6 doubles
Joaquín Turina: Cinq danses gitanes, op. 84
(Fiesta de las calderas. Circulos ritmicos. Invocacíon. Danza ritmica. Seguiriya)
Celso Machado: Folguedo
(All compositions are arranged for four guitars by Ante Čagalj, except piece by Machado arranged for the Zagreb Guitar Quartet by the author)
Posted on May 20th, 2008 in Quartet News |
The leading internet portal in Zadar Croatia, eZadar.hr, features the text with two photos, as well as the photo gallery.
Posted on April 20th, 2008 in Quartet News |
There are three upcoming concerts next week in Slovenia and Croatia:
April-14: Ljubljana (Slovenia), Šentjakobsko gledališće, Krekov trg 2, 8 pm. Free entrance.
April-16: Rijeka (Croatia), Filodrammatica, Korzo 28/I, 8 pm. Free entrance.
April-17: Zadar (Croatia), Hrvatska kazališna kuća Zadar, Široka ulica 8, 8 pm.
Program:
Georg Friedrich Händel: Suite no. 5 in E-major, HWV 430
Jean-Philippe Rameau: Gavotte et 6 doubles
Johann Sebastian Bach: Preludes and Fugues: BWV 531 & 541
Tomislav Uhlik: Quartetto concertante
Joaquín Turina: Cinq danses gitanes, op. 84
Celso Machado: Folguedo
Posted on April 10th, 2008 in Quartet News |