26th November
2008
written by miny

25th MBZ

Zagreb, Croatia

17.04.2009 - 26.04 2009

The Music Biennale Zagreb is an international festival of contemporary music, the first such festival was in year 1961. Every spring of the odd years  in Zagreb this festival represents the current music production from Croatia and abroad. The festival will take place in several very popular and famous places in Zagreb center such as Croatian National Theatre, Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall, Mimara Museum, Theater &T, Student center, Zagreb Youth Theatre, City Drama Theatre Gavella and much more.

The broad program speaks for it self.

17.04.2009

When

What

Where

Who

17:00

Opening of the French Pavillon

Studentski centar, Savska 25, Zagreb

Sylvain Kassap, jazz clarinet and saxophone player (France)

19:30

Spectacular Opening of the 25th MBZ

HNK - Croatian National Theatre of Zagreb

Trg maršala Tita 15

Srećko Bradić (Croatia): new opera Crux Dissimulata - world premiere

22:00

The Ensemble Paul Klee (Switzerland)

Theater &TD Savska 25, Zagreb

The Ensemble Paul Klee (Switzerland)

Kaspar Zehnder, conductor (Switzerland)

18.04.2009

12:00

Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte op. 41

Mimara Museum

Rooseveltov trg 5

Zagreb

Arnold Schoenberg (Austria)

Josip Lešaja, baritone (Croatia)

Cantus Ensamble (Croatia)

Conductor: Ivan Josip Skender (Croatia)

17:00

PROCESS-MUSIC - project of Multimedia Institute MAMA and MBZ (lectures and concerts)

Mimara Museum

Rooseveltov trg 5

Zagreb

Lecture: Peter Szendy (France)

Concert: Stephan Matieu (Germany)

20:00

SOUTH

ZKM (Zagreb Youth Theatre)

Theatre company “Fanny&Alexandar” (Italy)

22:00

IGOR LEŠNIK & MBZ: 30 Percussion Years Later

Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall - Small Hall

Trg Stjepana Radića 4

Igor Lešnik, percussion (Croatia)

19.04.2009

12:00

Eschendorf. Ein kroatisches Märchen / Jasenovac. A Croatian Fairytale

Museum for Arts and Crafts Zagreb

XL Tuba Quartet of Zagreb Philharmonic (Croatia)

Mladen Tarbuk

17:00

PROCESS-MUSIC, a project of Multimedia Institute MAMA and MBZ (lectures and concerts of electronic music)

Mimara Museum Zagreb

Rooseveltov trg 5

Lecture: Daniel Heller-Roazen (USA)

Concert: Thomas Köner (Germany)

20:00

Zilverstad / Srebrenica*, oratorio scenarium

(the world premiere)

Zagreb Youth Theatre (ZKM)

Miro Dobrowolny (Germany)

22:00

Angelo Badalamenti (Italy): Le Ceneri di Gramsci / Gramsci’s Ashes, choreodrama after the work of Piero Paolo Pasolini

Theater &TD Savska 25, Zagreb

Virgilio Sieni, choreography and dance (Italy)

20.04.2009

17:00

PROCESS-MUSIC, a project of Multimedia Institute MAMA and MBZ (lectures and concerts)

Mimara Museum Zagreb

Rooseveltov trg 5

Mladen Dolar (Slovenia), lecture

Alessandro Bosetti (Italy), concert

20:00

Concert from the cycle Sfumato

Mimara Museum Zagreb

Rooseveltov trg 5

Chorus of Croatian Radiotelevision (Croatia)

Tonči Bilić, conductor (Croatia)

Arvo Pärt, composer (Estonia)

22:00

Ensemble Intégrales (Germany)

Theatre &TD, Savska 25, Zagreb

Ensemble Intégrales (Germany)

21.04.2009

17:00

Ensamble Gaida (Lithuania)

Mimara Museum Zagreb

Rooseveltov trg 5

Ensamble Gaida (Lithuania)

20:00

opera Circus

City Theatre Komedija

Jury Everhartz (Germany)

Croatian Military Orchestra (Croatia)

Anna Sushon

22:00

Barbara Lüneburg, violin (Germany) & Marko Ciciliani, electronics (Netherlands)

Luigi Nono (Italy): La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura

Theatre &TD, a small half circle hall, Savska 25, Zagreb

23:00

Student Centre - MM Hall, Savska 25, Zagreb

dada jihad (Croatia)

22.04.2009

17:00

Ensemble for Contemporary Music MD7 (Slovenia)

Mimara Museum Zagreb

Rooseveltov trg 5

Steven Loy, conductor(SAD)

19:30

Orlando Garcia (SAD): opera Transcending Time - world premiere

City Drama Theatre Gavella

Frankopanska 8-10

Martina Gojčeta, mezzosoprano (Croatia)

Cantus Ensemble (Croatia)

Mladen Tarbuk, dirigent (Croatia)

21:30

Concert from the cycle Cantus & Lisinski

Theatre &TD, Savska 25, Zagreb

Music-dance project Sans Objet after the piece Tracking Pierrot by Earle Brown (USA)

Mié Coquempot, choreography (France)

Cantus Ensamble (Croatia)

Saša Britvić, conductor (Croatia)

22:30

Projekt Jeruzalem

Student Centre - MM Hall, Savska 25, Zagreb

nimbus dei (Croatia)

23.04.2009

16:00

Canadian electronic music

Mimara Museum

Rooseveltov trg 5

Dennis Patrick (Canada)

17:30

String Quartet Penderecki (Canada)

Mimara Museum

Rooseveltov trg 5

19:30

Concert from Master Cycle of HRT Symphony Orchestra

Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall - Big Hall

Trg Stjepana Radića 4

Edin Karamazov, electric guitar (Croatia)

(tba), piano

HRT Symphony Orchestra & HRT Big band (Croatia)

Nikša Bareza, conductor (Croatia)

22:00

Ensemble Les Amis (Canada)

Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall - Small Hall

Trg Stjepana Radića 4

24.04.2009

17:00

Pierrot Solaire

Mimara Museum

Rooseveltov trg 5

Luisa Sello (Italy), concept and flute

19:30

Concert of the Zagreb Philharmonic Cycle

Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall - Big Hall

Trg Stjepana Radića 4

Li Biao, percussion (China)

Tan Lihua, conductor (China)

22:00

Canadian Night

Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall - Small Hall

Trg Stjepana Radića 4

Queen of Puddings Music Theatre presents:

Julia Palmer (Canada): Stitch, mono-opera

Ana Sokolović (Canada): Love Songs, mono-opera

25.04.2009

17:00

Orchestra of the Guildhall School of Music (Great Britain)

Mimara Museum

Rooseveltov trg 5

Nicholas Cleobury, conductor (Great Britain)

20:00

Sho-bo-genz-zo, theatre-dance performance

Theatre &TD, Savska 25, Zagreb

Josef Nadj, director, choreographer and dancer (Voivodina),

Cécile Loyer, dancer (France)

Joelle Leandre, double bass (France)

Ákos Szelevényi, percussion and wind instruments (Hungary)

22:00

Ensemble UMZE (Hungary)

Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall - Small Hall

Trg Stjepana Radića 4

Zoltán Rácz, conductor (Hungary)

26.04.2009

13:00

Organ contemporary music

Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Elizabeta Zalović, organ (Croatia)

17:00

Concert on a behalf of 60th anniversary of flautist Roberto Fabbriciani (Italy)

Society of Croatian Artists

19:30

Berislav Šipuš (Croatia): Process*, new ballet - world premiere

HNK - Croatian National Theatre of Zagreb

Trg maršala Tita 15

Ballet Ensemble from Croatian National Theatre of Rijeka Ivan pl. Zajc (Croatia)

Dian Tchobanov, conductor (Bulgaria)

Staša Zurovac, choreography (Croatia)

23:00

Electronic jazz

Student Cetre, Savska 25, Zagreb

Trondheym (Germany)

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