Saturday, September 23
Franciscan Church, 8.00 p.m.
Zagreb Soloists
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No.5 in D major, BWV 1050.2
Allegro
Affettuoso
Allegro Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No.3 in G major, BWV 1048
Allegro
Adagio
Allegro Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Concerto for flute and strings in D minor, H 484.1
Allegro
Un poco andante
Allegro di molto
Austrian flutist Michael Martin Kofler was born in 1966 in Villach. He graduated from the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna under Werner Tripp and Wolfgang Schulz and trained at the Music Academy in Basel with Peter-Lucas Graf. During his studies he was principal flutist of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra under Claudio Abbado. In 1987, at the invitation of conductor Sergiu Celibidache, he became principal flutist of the Munich Philharmonic. He has been honored with many prizes at competitions (ARD, Brussels, Prague, among others) and was also the recipient of Cultural Endowment Prizes awarded by the Münchner Konzertgesellschaft and by the Austrian state of Carinthia, as well as receiving an honorary prize from the Austrian Ministry of Science and the Cultural Prize of his native city of Villach. Since 1983 he has performed concertos, recitals and chamber music as a flute soloist throughout the world and has also been featured as a soloist and chamber ensemble member on CD and in recordings for radio and television. He performs with renowned world orchestras, including the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, philharmonic and symphony orchestras from Prague, Warsaw, Zagreb, Salzburg, Linz, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, chamber orchestras from Vienna, Munich, Stuttgart, Würtenberg, Slovakia, Slovenian and Seoul Philharmonic, Salzburg Chamber Philharmonic, Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Australian Chamber Orchestra Amadeus and Zagreb Soloists. He has performed as a soloist under distinguished conductors such as James Levine, Sir Neville Marriner, Fabio Luisi, Herbert Blomstedt, Frans Brüggen, Ton Koopmann and Jonathan Nott. As a chamber musician, he has performed with prominent musicians such as Paul Badur-Skoda, Irwin Gage, Stefan Vladar, Stephan Kiefer, Konrad Ragossnig, Xavier de Maistre, Regina Kofler, Martin Spangenberg, Benjamin Schmid, Clemens and Veronika Hagen, as well as the Mandelring Quartet and the Quartet Mozart from Salzburg. Since 1989, he has been a professor at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, and he often holds master classes in Europe, Asia and the USA. He was also a member of the judging commissions at major international competitions.
The Ensemble of Zagreb Soloists was founded in 1953 as part of Radio Zagreb, under the artistic direction of the famous cellist Antonij Janigro. During almost seven decades - under the baton of equally famous concertmasters, such as Dragutin Hrdjok, Tonko Ninić, Anđelko Krpan and Borivoj Martinić-Jerčić - the Zagreb soloists reflect the quality of musicianship at an enviable level, which they regularly present on prestigious world concert stages. Since 2012, the Ensemble has been performing with the famous violinist Sreten Krstić as its concertmaster, and at the same time concertmaster of the Munich Philharmonic. So far, the Zagreb soloists have held almost 4,000 concerts on all continents, in the world’s largest centers and most famous concert halls such as Musikverein (Vienna), Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Royal Festival Hall (London), Berlin Philharmonic Hall, Tchaikowski Hall (Moscow). , Santa Cecilia (Rome), Carnegie Hall (New York), Opera House (Sydney), Victoria Hall (Geneva), Teatro Real (Madrid), Teatro Colon (Buenos Aires), Versailles, etc. They were regular guests at the most famous music festivals such as those in Salzburg, Prague, Edinburgh, Berlin, Bergen, Barcelona, Istanbul, Prades Ossiach, Dubrovnik and elsewhere, and they were accompanied by numerous distinguished soloists, for example - Henryk Szeryng, Alfred Brendel, Christian Ferras , Pierre Fournier, Leonard Rose, James Galway, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Aldo Ciccolini, Katia Ricciarelli, Lily Laskine, Zuzana Ružičkova, Mario Brunello, Isabelle Moretti, Guy Touvron, Marc Coppey, Ray Chen and many others.
Zagreb soloists have been awarded numerous high prizes and recognitions: first prize in Mar del Plata (for the album Concerts of the 18th century), Pablo Casals Medal, Elisabeth Sprague Coolidge Medal (for performing contemporary music), Vladimir Nazor Award, Milka Trnina Award, Josip Štolcer Slavenski Award (for the best performance of a work by a Croatian composer), Ivan Lukačić Award of the Varaždin Baroque Evenings, Villa Manin Award, UNESCO Award, City of Zagreb Award, Silver CD of the record company Croatia Records, Order of Merit of the People with Silver Rays, Plaque of the City of Zagreb, several Croatian Porin discography awards (1994 for lifetime achievement) , Silver Plaque of the Croatian Music Youth and many others. In 2010, the Ensemble was awarded the Orlando Grand Prix for outstanding artistic contributions in the realization of the entire program of the Dubrovnik Summer Festival.
Franciscan Church, 8.00 p.m.
Zagreb Soloists
Michael Martin Kofler, flute
Sreten Krstić, violin
Franjo Bilić, harpsichord
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No.5 in D major, BWV 1050.2
Allegro
Affettuoso
Allegro Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No.3 in G major, BWV 1048
Allegro
Adagio
Allegro Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Concerto for flute and strings in D minor, H 484.1
Allegro
Un poco andante
Allegro di molto
Austrian flutist Michael Martin Kofler was born in 1966 in Villach. He graduated from the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna under Werner Tripp and Wolfgang Schulz and trained at the Music Academy in Basel with Peter-Lucas Graf. During his studies he was principal flutist of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra under Claudio Abbado. In 1987, at the invitation of conductor Sergiu Celibidache, he became principal flutist of the Munich Philharmonic. He has been honored with many prizes at competitions (ARD, Brussels, Prague, among others) and was also the recipient of Cultural Endowment Prizes awarded by the Münchner Konzertgesellschaft and by the Austrian state of Carinthia, as well as receiving an honorary prize from the Austrian Ministry of Science and the Cultural Prize of his native city of Villach. Since 1983 he has performed concertos, recitals and chamber music as a flute soloist throughout the world and has also been featured as a soloist and chamber ensemble member on CD and in recordings for radio and television. He performs with renowned world orchestras, including the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, philharmonic and symphony orchestras from Prague, Warsaw, Zagreb, Salzburg, Linz, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, chamber orchestras from Vienna, Munich, Stuttgart, Würtenberg, Slovakia, Slovenian and Seoul Philharmonic, Salzburg Chamber Philharmonic, Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Australian Chamber Orchestra Amadeus and Zagreb Soloists. He has performed as a soloist under distinguished conductors such as James Levine, Sir Neville Marriner, Fabio Luisi, Herbert Blomstedt, Frans Brüggen, Ton Koopmann and Jonathan Nott. As a chamber musician, he has performed with prominent musicians such as Paul Badur-Skoda, Irwin Gage, Stefan Vladar, Stephan Kiefer, Konrad Ragossnig, Xavier de Maistre, Regina Kofler, Martin Spangenberg, Benjamin Schmid, Clemens and Veronika Hagen, as well as the Mandelring Quartet and the Quartet Mozart from Salzburg. Since 1989, he has been a professor at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, and he often holds master classes in Europe, Asia and the USA. He was also a member of the judging commissions at major international competitions.
The Ensemble of Zagreb Soloists was founded in 1953 as part of Radio Zagreb, under the artistic direction of the famous cellist Antonij Janigro. During almost seven decades - under the baton of equally famous concertmasters, such as Dragutin Hrdjok, Tonko Ninić, Anđelko Krpan and Borivoj Martinić-Jerčić - the Zagreb soloists reflect the quality of musicianship at an enviable level, which they regularly present on prestigious world concert stages. Since 2012, the Ensemble has been performing with the famous violinist Sreten Krstić as its concertmaster, and at the same time concertmaster of the Munich Philharmonic. So far, the Zagreb soloists have held almost 4,000 concerts on all continents, in the world’s largest centers and most famous concert halls such as Musikverein (Vienna), Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Royal Festival Hall (London), Berlin Philharmonic Hall, Tchaikowski Hall (Moscow). , Santa Cecilia (Rome), Carnegie Hall (New York), Opera House (Sydney), Victoria Hall (Geneva), Teatro Real (Madrid), Teatro Colon (Buenos Aires), Versailles, etc. They were regular guests at the most famous music festivals such as those in Salzburg, Prague, Edinburgh, Berlin, Bergen, Barcelona, Istanbul, Prades Ossiach, Dubrovnik and elsewhere, and they were accompanied by numerous distinguished soloists, for example - Henryk Szeryng, Alfred Brendel, Christian Ferras , Pierre Fournier, Leonard Rose, James Galway, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Aldo Ciccolini, Katia Ricciarelli, Lily Laskine, Zuzana Ružičkova, Mario Brunello, Isabelle Moretti, Guy Touvron, Marc Coppey, Ray Chen and many others.
Zagreb soloists have been awarded numerous high prizes and recognitions: first prize in Mar del Plata (for the album Concerts of the 18th century), Pablo Casals Medal, Elisabeth Sprague Coolidge Medal (for performing contemporary music), Vladimir Nazor Award, Milka Trnina Award, Josip Štolcer Slavenski Award (for the best performance of a work by a Croatian composer), Ivan Lukačić Award of the Varaždin Baroque Evenings, Villa Manin Award, UNESCO Award, City of Zagreb Award, Silver CD of the record company Croatia Records, Order of Merit of the People with Silver Rays, Plaque of the City of Zagreb, several Croatian Porin discography awards (1994 for lifetime achievement) , Silver Plaque of the Croatian Music Youth and many others. In 2010, the Ensemble was awarded the Orlando Grand Prix for outstanding artistic contributions in the realization of the entire program of the Dubrovnik Summer Festival.