Zagreb Guitar Quartet in China
The Zagreb Guitar Quartet will perform a concert at the The National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA), Beijing, China, on June 7th 2012.
The event is sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Republic of Croatia. The program will feature works by Croatian composers Adalbert Marković and Ivo Josipović.
Bach Fugue 579 Live in Jyllinge, Denmark – Zagreb Guitar Quartet
More Bach’s music at http://zagrebguitarquartet.bandcamp.com/
Live in Jyllinge, Denmark, Hellig Kors Kirke, 30 January 2011
Zagreb Guitar Quartet:
Tomislav Vasilj – soprano guitar
Krunoslav Pehar – guitar
Melita Ivković – 7-string guitar
Frane Verbanac – guitar
Celso Machado: Folguedo
Celso Machado orignally wrote this piece for eight guitars. After hearing our performance of his Danças populares brasileiras on our CD Da Fuga a Milonga, Celso decided to make an arrangement of Folguedo for the Zagreb Guitar Quartet. Here you can hear it in a live performance. It consists of two movements: Adagio and Folguedo.
Bach Fugue BWV 578 online
Watch video of the Zagreb Guitar Quartet playing Bach’s Fugue BWV 578 at the Guitar Days in Zagreb, May 2009.
Osor Concert Review in Vjesnik
Along with their innate passion, the performance of the Zagreb Guitar Quartet shows superior conscientiousness in the concert preparation and a high level of performing together, evident in their brilliant technique and a sense for leading phrases on the guitar, an artistic string instrument enjoying agelong popularity in Croatia.
Zlatko Stahuljak, Vjesnik (Croatian daily newspaper), 29 July 2009.
Read the full article (Croatian only).
Concert at the Osor Musical Evenings
Watch YouTube video of Oscar Peterson’s Laurentide Waltz recorded at the Osor Musical Evenings in 2007.
Osor Musical Evenings
Island of Cres, Croatia
Friday, 24 July, 9 pm
ZAGREB GUITAR QUARTET
Tomislav Vasilj – Krunoslav Pehar – Melita Ivković – Mak Grgić
Program (all arrangements by Ante Čagalj):
Jean-Philippe Rameau: Gavotte et 6 doubles
Isaac Albéniz: Pavana capricho, op. 12; Sevilla
Vlado Sunko: Varijacije na dalmatinsku temu (Variations on a Dalmatian theme)
Joaquín Turina: La oración del torero, op. 34
Francisco Tárrega: Jota aragonesa
Oscar Peterson: The Laurentide Waltz; Land of the Misty Giants; Place St. Henri
Kastafsko kulturno leto Guitar Festival
18.07. subota / Saturday
20:30 – 23:30 sati, crkva Sv. Jelene Križarice / 8:30 – 11:30 p.m., St. Jelena Križarica church
“Bach uz svijeće…klasično – aukustično – električno – povijesno!”
“Candlelight Bach…classical-acoustic-electric-historical!”
Zagrebački gitaristički kvartet / Zagreb Guitar Quartet
Tomislav Vasilj / Krunoslav Pehar / Melita Ivković / Mak Grgić
Hrvatska, Slovenija / Croatia, Slovenia
Renato Rožić & Raul sen Gupta
hi-end gitara & tabla, Hrvatska, Indija / hi-end guitar & tabla, Croatia, India
Guitar Days Concert broadcast on Croatian Television
The Guitar Days opening concert which featured Robert Belinić and the Zagreb Guitar Quartet will be broadcast May 24 on HRT1 (Croatian Television) from 8.10-9.15 am.
From the HRT website:
HTV1 24.05.2009. 08:10
Dani gitare 2009.: Robert Belinić i Zagrebački gitaristički kvartet
Kasnih osamdesetih, tiho i neformalno u zagrebački i hrvatski koncertni život ušli su Dani gitare. Nisu se odmah tako zvali, no pažnju jesu privukli odmah. U sklopu Dana, promoviralo se najbolje čime Hrvatska, kad je o gitarama riječ, raspolaže. Nema zapaženijeg gitarista mlađeg naraštaja kojeg organizator festivala Ante Čagalj nije pozvao da nastupi na festivalskoj pozornici. U svom 20. godištu festival okupalja potvrđenu gitarističku kvalitetu, tu je jedan od naših najrafiniranijih komornih sastava Zagrebački gitaristički kvartet i Robert Belinić kojeg pamtimo kao dječaka iz Papićeve Priče iz Hrvatske, uspješni solist koji je kao prvi gitarist u povijesti programa Young Concert Artists pobijedio na audiciji u Leipzigu 2001. Belinić i Kvartet, odvojeno i zajedno pred prepunom franjevačkom crkvom na Kaptolu, svirali su skladbe Bacha, Händela, Rameaua, Laura i Garota.
Urednik: Ivana Kocelj
Redatelj: Danko Volarić
