Monday, September 29
St. Nichola's Church 8:00 p.m.
Zagreb soloists
Maurice Steger, baroque flute
Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude in D minor, BWV 875 (The Well-Tempered Clavier II, arranged for strings by Sreten Krstić )
Domenico Sarro
Concerto for recorder in A minor No 9
Largo
Allegro
Larghetto
Spirituoso
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for strings in D major No 10, RV 121
Allegro molto
Adagio
Allegro
Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto for recorder, strings and basso continuo in A major op. 5 No 11 (instrumentation: Francesco Geminiani; ornaments: Pietro Castrucci/Matthew Dubourg )
Preludio – Adagio
Allegro
Adagio
Vivace
Gavotta – Allegro
Johann Sebastian Bach
Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit, kantata, BWV 106
Sonatina
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for flute in D major, Il Gardellino, RV 428
Allegro
Cantabile
Allegro
Charles Avison/Domenico Scarlatti
Concerto grosso in D minor No 3
Largo andante
Allegro spiritoso
Amoroso
Allegro
As a recorder player and conductor, Maurice Steger regularly appears as a soloist, conductor, or both simultaneously, performing with leading period-instrument ensembles such as Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, La Cetra Baroque Orchestra Basel, Venice Baroque Orchestra, The English Concert, Il Pomo d’Oro, and I Barocchisti. He also collaborates with renowned modern orchestras, including the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, the Canadian ensemble Les Violons du Roy, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, Musikkollegium Winterthur, and the NDR Radiophilharmonie. Chamber music plays a prominent role in the richly varied spectrum of Steger's artistic activities. With fellow musicians and friends such as Hille Perl, Rachel Podger, Avi Avital, Daniele Caminiti, Sebastian Wienand, Diego Fasolis, Sol Gabetta and the French harpsichordist Jean Rondeau, he dedicates himself to a continuously updated repertoire of Early music. Thanks to his boundless curiosity and thirst for knowledge, he continually discovers new chapters of Baroque music, regularly uncovering Baroque and early Classical rarities, which he performs as a soloist and conductor, and releases on recordings. Maurice Steger loves the interaction between different cultures and getting to know other ways of working and interpretive approaches, working as a concert artist, professor, and juror not only in Europe but throughout the world. Tours through North and South America, Asia and Australia have brought him together with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and the Malaysia Philharmonic Orchestra, among others. He was also the first Western recorder player to perform with the Traditional Taipei Chinese Orchestra. His commitment to musical education is also extremely important to him: besides the directorship of the Gstaad Baroque Academy at the Menuhin Festival Gstaad, which he took over in 2013 in addition to diverse master classes, he invented the character of Tino Flautino in order to encourage young children to playfully engage with classical music. Maurice Steger has received numerous awards for his work, including the Karajan Prize and the ECHO Klassik.
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.