Sunday, September 21 
Trakošćan Castle, Hall of Knights, 11:00 a.m.

      Croatian Musical Heritage – Music of Amando Ivančić

Ars Antiqua Austria
Gunar Letzbor, violin and artistic leadership
Nina Pohn, violin
Markus Miesenberger,  viola
Peter Trefflinger, cello
Michael Söllner, horn 1 Cornu 1
Adalbert Heitzinger, horn 2 Cornu 2

Amando Ivančić

Divertimento in C major for violin, viola and cello 
Adagio 
Menuetto –Trio 
Finale: Allegro

Sinfonia in A major for violin 1, violine 2 and basso 
Andantino
Menuet
Finale

Sinfonia ex G: Violino Primo, Violino Secundo, Cornu Primo, Cornu Secundo, Viola con Basso 
Allegro assai
Andante
Menuet-Trio-Menuet
Allegro

Concertino in Es: Violino Alto Viola, Basso 
Largetto
Menuet-Trio-Menuet
Allegro

Sinfonia in D a 4 Stromenti: Violino 1, Violino 2, Viola obligato e Basso 
Entrada/Allegro, 
Menuetto-Trio-Menuetto, 
Andante, 
“Il Fabro ferraro”/Allegro

Ars Antiqua Austria was founded in Linz in 1989 with the aim of introducing audiences to the  roots of specifically Austrian baroque music played on period-instruments. The core of Ars Antiqua Austria comprises 8 musicians directed by Gunar Letzbor. The ensemble is readily augmented to accommodate a still wider repertoire.. Ars Antiqua Austria gave numerous concerts while researching the achievements of Austria`s baroque composers in depth. Thanks to Gunar Letzbor's unflagging commitment, many works received their first performance in modern times. Enthusiastic reviews welcomed CDs of music by Weichlein, Biber, Conti (together with the mezzosoprano Bernarda Fink), Viviani, Mealli, Arnold, Caldara, Aufschnaiter, Vilsmayr, Vejvanovsky, Schmelzer, Muffat and of course J.S.Bach. In 2000 Ars Antiqua Austria commenced a cycle of concerts in the Vienna Konzerthaus on the theme of Austrian Baroque music. Beginning in 2001 the ensemble is playing a leading part in a concert series with more than 90 concerts called Sound of Cultures - Culture of Sound. Ten different programmes will being repeated in Vienna, Prague, Bratislava, Cracow, Venice, Ljubljana, Mechelen, Budapest and Lübeck. Recent tours have taken the ensemble to the Festival de la Musique Baroque at Ribeauville; Berlin Festival of Ancient Music; Festival Printemps des Arts at Nantes; Mozartfest at Würzburg with an opera production together with Michael Schopper; Tage alter Musik at Herne, Festival de Musique de Clisson et de Loire Atlantique, Folles Journées de Nantes, Musée d'Unterlinden Colmar, Monteverdi Festival Cremona, Festival Baroque du Sablon, Salzburger Festspiele, Vlandern Festival, Festival Bach de Lausanne, Bologna Festival, Vendsyssel Festival, Concerti della Normale Pisa, Resonanzen Wien, Klangbogen Wien. Ars Antiqua Austria's recording of Viviani's Capricci Armonici received a Cannes Classical Award 2002. 

Gunar Letzbor studied composition, conducting and violin at Linz, Salzburg and Cologne. His encounters with Nicolaus Harnoncourt and Reinhard Goebel ignited a deep passion for period instruments and performance practice, leading him to perform extensively with Musica Antiqua Köln, the Clemencic Consort, La Folia Salzburg, Armonico Tributo Basel and the Wiener Akademie. Gunar Letzbor founded his own ensemble, Ars Antiqua Austria, dedicated in particular to the exploration of the rich, but neglected, baroque repertoire of his native country and its neighbours. Corollaries of this voyage of re-discovery have been not only the unexpected finds of musical masterpieces otherwise destined to languish in obscurity, but also the articulation of a uniquely central-European instrumental sound and its often deeply spiritual inspiration.  As a soloist and with Ars Antiqua Austria, Letzbor has made numerous recordings (including several world premieres), featuring works by Mozart, Bach, Biber, Muffat, Aufschnaiter, Viviani, Schmelzer, Weichlein, Vejvanovsky, Vilsmayr and Conti. Many of these CDs have received major record awards, including the Cannes Classical Award and Amadeus' Disco dell'Anno. Particulary remarkable was his world's premiere recording of Sonate for violin solo by J.J.Vilsmayr and J.P.Westhoff. Letzbor has performed at every major baroque music festival in Europe, including the Festival de la Musique Baroque in Ribeauville, Festwochen der Alten Musik in Berlin, Festival Printemps des Arts in Nantes, Mozartfest in Würzburg, Tagen alter Musik in Herne, Folles Journees de Nantes, Musee d'Unterlinden Colmar, Flanders Festival, Festival Bach de Lausanne, Bologna Festival, Resonanzen Wien, Klangbogen Wien, Monteverdi Festival in Cremona and at the Munich Staatsoper and the Salzburg Festival. Gunar Letzbor teached at the Musikhochschule in Lübeck (Germany) and Vienna (Austria); he is a widely respected teacher, giving summer courses across Europe.