Tuesday, September 24
St. Nichola's Church 8.00 p.m.
Zagreb soloists
Isabel Vaz, cello
Sreten Krstić, violin
Franjo Bilić, harpsichord
Amando Ivančić
Symphony for strings No 8 in G major
Allegro
Andante
Presto
Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto grosso u D-duru/in D major, op. 6, No 4
Adagio - Allegro
Adagio
Vivace
Allegro
Antonio Pollicarppi
Concerto for cello obligato in D major
Allegro
Andantino
Allegro assai
William Boyce
Symphony in B flat major Op.2 No 1
Allegro
Moderato e dolce
Allegro
Charles Avison (according to D. Scarlattiju)
Concerto grosso in D major No 6
Largo
Adagio
Vivacemente
Con furia
Portuguese cellist based in Amsterdam, Isabel Vaz completed her bachelor's and master's degrees at the Conservatory of Amsterdam under Dmitry Ferschtman. During her studies, she participated in exchange programs in Prague (HAMU) and New York (Manhattan School of Music). She has refined her skills in masterclasses with renowned cellists such as Gary Hoffman, Márcio Carneiro, Natalia Shakovskaya, Valter Dešpalj, Giovanni Sollima, Michel Strauss, and Antonio Meneses. She has won numerous awards in national and international competitions, both in solo and chamber music. From 2013 to 2015, she was a member of Quartetto Indaco, performing in various halls and festivals across Europe. The quartet studied under the guidance of Oliver Wille in the string quartet program at the Hochschule für Musik in Hannover.
Isabel Vaz is active as a soloist and chamber musician, both in the Netherlands and abroad, and has been a member of the Noord Nederlands Orkest since 2015. She performs in a duo with concert pianist Vasco Dantas, and their CD featuring the Sonata for Cello by Luís de Freitas Branco was nominated for Best Classical Album at the Prémios Play 2021. Together with Vasco Dantas, she also shares the artistic coordination of the Algarve Music Series, an International Chamber Music Festival in the Algarve. Over the past few seasons, she has had several solo performances with various European orchestras such as the Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa, Orquestra de Cascais e Oeiras, Kremlin Chamber Orchestra, Sonor Ensemble, and the Zagreb Soloists.
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 at home and abroad.