Tuesday, October 1
Franciscan Church, 8.00 p.m
Croatian Baroque Ensemble
Ana Benić Šalinović, traverso solo
Laura Vadjon, violin solo
Tanja Tortić, violin
Krešimir Fabijanić, trumpet
Hiwote Tadesse, viola
Dora Kuzmin Maković, cello
Pavle Kladarin, double bass
Fernando Miguel Jalôto, harpsichord solo and direction
Spirituoso
Georg Philipp Telemann
Sonata Spirituosa for trumpet and strings in D major, TWV 44:D1
Sinfonia: Spirituoso
Largo
Vivace
Gaetano Maria Schiassi
Concerto for flute and strings
Allegro
Andante
Allegro
Carlos Seixas
Concerto for harpsichord and strings in A major
Allegro
Adagio
Allegro Giga
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto nr. 5 in D major, BWV 1050
Allegro
Affettuoso
Allegro
The Croatian Baroque Ensemble is the most significant Croatian ensemble specializing in historically informed interpretations of music from the Baroque period and related eras, using original instruments and their replicas. The ensemble was founded in 1999 and brings together younger-generation musicians who are passionate about authentic sound and stylistically conscious interpretations that align with the spirit and poetics of the time in which the music was created. The ensemble's director is the renowned violinist Laura Vadjon. Over 20 years of concert cycles at the Croatian Music Institute in Zagreb, they have been regular guests at numerous domestic and international festivals. During this period, the ensemble has also collaborated with some of the world's finest artists specializing in Baroque music performance (Catherine Mackintosh, Hervé Niquet, Enrico Onofri, Laurence Cummings, Andreas Helm, Rachel Brown, Alessandro Tampieri, Jaap ter Linden, Richard Egarr, Jacques Ogg, Werner Ehrhardt, Marcello Gatti, Stefano Montanari, Aapo Häkkinen, Philip Pickett, David Staff, Theresa Caudle, Russel Gilmour, Peter van Hauwelingen, Mimi Mitchell, Christopher Lawrey, Hugo Hymas, Mitchell Sandler, Shalev Ad-El, Adrian Butterfield, Peter Lönnerberg, Ryo Terakado, David Bates, Peter van Heyghen, Gail Hennesy, Andrew Lawrence-King, Benjamin Bayl...). The ensemble also collaborates with the vocal ensemble Antiphonus as well as with choirs such as Cantores Santi Marci and I.G. Kovačić. The programs of the Croatian Baroque Ensemble also feature Croatian composers or those who were active in this region (F. Sponga-Usper, G. Usper, T. Cecchini, V. Jelić, I. Lukačić, G. Puliti, L. Sorkočević, M. Stratico, I. M. Jarnović...). The Croatian Baroque Ensemble is credited with the first permanent recordings of their works on historical instruments from purified scores, without editorial interventions. The Croatian Baroque Ensemble is the recipient of the Milka Trnina Diploma from the Croatian Association of Music Artists in 2001, the Orlando Award from the Dubrovnik Summer Festival in 2014, the Ivan Lukačić Award from the Varaždin Baroque Evenings in 2016, and the City of Zagreb Award in 2020.
Fernando Miguel Jalôto directs his own ensemble, is a guest harpsichordist in prestigious European early music ensembles, and also performs as a soloist and gives recitals. He is currently the most renowned Portuguese specialist in historical keyboard instruments. He is the principal harpsichordist of the Orquestra Barroca Casa da Música (Porto) and a guest harpsichordist for the Gulbenkian Symphony Orchestra and Choir in Lisbon. He regularly performs across Europe, Israel, China, and Japan, and often collaborates with esteemed ensembles such as La Galanía, Oltremontano, Vox Luminis, Capilla Flamenca, and Bonne Corde, as well as with conductors and soloists such as Enrico Onofri, Ton Koopman, Paul McCreesh, Christina Pluhar, Christophe Rousset, Fabio Biondi, Antonio Florio, Amandine Beyer, Harry Christophers, Andrew Parrott, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Chiara Banchini, Alfredo Bernardini, Christophe Coin, Dirk Snellings, Wim Becu, Paul Hillier, and Andreas Staier. As a soloist and continuo musician, he has recorded for record labels including Harmonia Mundi, Glossa Music, Anima & Corpo, Parati, Brilliant Classics, Dynamic, Outhere, and Veterum Musica. He studied harpsichord at the Early Music and Historical Performance Practice Department of the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, where he completed his bachelor's and master's degrees under Jacques Ogg. He attended masterclasses with Gustav Leonhardt, Olivier Baumont, and Ilton Wjuniski. He also studied the clavichord and Baroque organ. He holds a master's degree in music from the University of Aveiro and is currently pursuing a PhD in historical musicology at Universidade Nova in Lisbon.
Violinist Laura Vadjon is the first Croatian artist specializing in the Baroque violin and is one of the pioneers of new stylistic movements, making her a leading figure in the field of early music performance in Croatia. She is the director and concertmaster of the Croatian Baroque Ensemble, with whom she has been performing in Croatia and abroad since 1999, bringing to the stage numerous Croatian premieres of works by forgotten composers as well as masterpieces from the Baroque and Classical periods. She regularly collaborates with the most distinguished musicians on the global Baroque music scene and performs with various ensembles both in Croatia and internationally (Zagreb Soloists, L’arte del mondo, London Handel Players, Florilegium, Le Concert Spirituel, Helsinki Baroque, Orquestra Barroca Casa da Música). She is a member of the London Handel Orchestra, with which she regularly performs in the United Kingdom, especially at the London Handel Festival. In her interpretation of solo and chamber music, she has achieved many successful concert and recording projects, particularly distinguishing herself as an interpreter of early Italian Baroque music as well as the works of Handel and Mozart. She plays on an authentic historical instrument crafted by Italian maker Giovanni Battista Guadagnini in 1751. She is the recipient of the Rector’s and Dean’s Awards, the Award of the Society of University Teachers and Other Scientists, and the Milka Trnina and Porin Awards, among numerous other Croatian professional accolades with the Croatian Baroque Ensemble: Orlando (Dubrovnik Summer Festival, 2014), Ivan Lukačić (Varaždin Baroque Evenings, 2016), and the City of Zagreb Award (2020). She has performed in about twenty European countries, as well as in Russia, Japan, and South America. Since 1995, she has been a professor at the Zagreb Academy of Music, where she teaches chamber music from the 17th and 18th centuries. She is also the director of the Korkyra Baroque Festival.
Ana Benić Šalinović gratuated flute at the Zagreb Music Academy in the class of Renata Penezić. She also completed postgraduate studies in Great Britain at The Flute Studio with Trevor Wye, as well as artistic specialization at the Academy of Music in Zagreb, in the class of Karolina Šantl-Zupan. In addition to numerous notable recitals, chamber music concerts and performances at festivals such as the Dubrovnik Summer Festival, the Korkyra Baroque Festival and the Musical Evenings in St Donatus, she achieved most of her work as a solo flutist of the orchestra of the Croatian National Theater’s opera in Zagreb, and as a soloist of the Croatian Baroque Ensemble, where she is combining modern instruments with a historically informed performance. In recent years she has been particularly active in the field of early music and baroque traverso flute. She has performed with the Ars longa ensemble and the Croatian Baroque Ensemble at numerous festivals in Croatia and Europe. For one of her performances with the Croatian Baroque Ensemble, she was awarded the Orlando Prize at the Dubrovnik Summer Festival.
Krešimir Fabijanić graduated in trumpet from the Academy of Music in Ljubljana under the guidance of Stanko Arnold. He further honed his skills in master classes with Stanko Arnold, Ole Edvard Antonsen, Edward Carroll, and John Wallace. He specialized in the baroque trumpet with Crispian Steele-Perkins and Michael Laird (London). As a soloist, he has performed with the Zagreb Soloists, the Zagreb Philharmonic, the Varaždin Chamber Orchestra, and the Croatian Baroque Ensemble, of which he has been an active member since 2000. In collaboration with organists Alen Kopunović-Legetin, Anđelko Igrec, and Goran Vidnjević, Fabijanić has performed both domestically and internationally. He has recorded for Croatian Radiotelevision (HRT). He is permanently employed as a trumpet teacher at the Vatroslav Lisinski Music School in Zagreb.