Sunday, September 28
Patačić Palace, 11:00 a.m.
Shizuko Noiri, lute
Igor Paro, lute
Autumn Blossoms: A Journey trough Late Baroque Music on the Lute
Giovanni Zamboni
Sonata Prima
Preludio
Alemanda
Currente
Sarabanda Largo
Minuet
Bohemian Music
Aureus Dix
Arpeggio
Červenka
Allemanda
Jan Antonin Losy
Sarabanda
Aureus Dix
Gigue
Johann Sebastian Bach
Suite for cello solo in G Major No 1, BWV1007
Arrangement for two lutes
Prélude
Allemande
Courante
Sarabande
Menuet I-II
Gigue
After completing her musicology studies in her hometown of Kyoto, Shizuko Noiri began studying the lute, which she completed at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (Basel) under Eugen Dombois and Hopkinson Smith. Performing under René Jacobs , Shizuko Noiri has over 30 years appeared in many opera productions throughout Europe, the USA, Israel, Argentina, Australia and Japan. She has appeared as a soloist and continuo player with the finest baroque ensemble including Concerto Vocale, Ensemble 415, Freiburger Baroque Orchestra, Akademie fűr Alte Musik Berlin, Le Concert d’Astreé, and Bach Collegium Japan. Her discography includes the solo recordings Aure Nove, Toccata e danze per liuto in stile moderno, G. A. Cateliono, Intabolatura de Leuto and Giovanni Zamboni , Sonate d’ intavolatura di Leuto, and other recordings with René Jacobs (Harmonia Mundi France). Additional labels include WDR, Symphonia and Zig-Zag.
Croatian lutenist and guitarist Igor Paro graduated in classical guitar from the Music Academy in Zagreb, where he studied with Darko Petrinjak. He went on to study Renaissance and Baroque lute at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel under Eugen Dombois and Hopkinson Smith. He further honed his skills in masterclasses with renowned lutenists such as Jakob Lindberg, Nigel North, Robert Crawford Young, Ken Zuckerman, Peter Croton, Anthony Rooley, and Pat O'Brien. As a soloist and member of various early music ensembles, he has performed abroad and at nearly all major festivals in Croatia. He has participated in numerous contemporary premieres of Croatian and European Renaissance and early Baroque musical heritage. His collaborators have included the ensembles Antifonus and Camerata Garestin, as well as prominent Croatian vocalists such as Dunja Vejzović, Max Emanuel Cenčić, Ivana Lazar, Marta Lončar, and Darija Auguštan. He has also contributed to several theatre and film projects. In 2017, he founded the Baroque ensemble Capella Zriniana, dedicated to exploring and presenting music from the time and cultural sphere of the Zrinski and Frankopan noble families. In 2018, he established the Renaissance ensemble Plavca Nova, focused on the research and performance of Croatian Renaissance music. Since 2011, he has been teaching classical guitar at the Franjo Lučić Art School in Velika Gorica, and since 2021, he has taught lute as an elective subject at the Zagreb Academy of Music.
