- Admission: Adults $20 / Seniors &
Students $15 -
(Meet the artists at the reception after the
concert.)
Porin String
Quartet was
founded in 1998 within the chamber music class of Professor Mladen Sedak
at the
Music Academy in Zagreb. Alongside the
dedicated work
during their Academy days the quartet have participated in master
seminars held
by Professor Walter Dešpalj and a number of famous artists and members
of the
world's most renowned string quartets, such as the Amadeus, Alban
Berg, Bartok, Janaček, Smetana and
the Prague Quartet. The young Porin
String Quartet quickly emerged as one of
the most distinguished Croatian chamber music ensembles with numerous
successes
at home and abroad, most notably in Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Italy,
Bosnia
and Herzegovina and Argentina. The quartet had
the honour to represent Croatian music during the Days ofCroatian
Culture at the Expo 2000 in Hannover. That same year they were
invited by the Austrian Society for Contemporary Music to participate in
a concert
of young Austrian composers in Vienna, and they also performed in the
Mozarteum
Salzburg. Among their most
notable
performances are the String Quartet No. 2 by Krzysztof Penderecki at the
Music
Biennale Zagreb in 2007, attended by the composer himself, the concerts
at
Dubrovnik Summer Festival in 2008 and 2009, as well as the ones held in
Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall in Zagreb (as part of the Lisinski
Saturday
cycle)in
2008.
Since 2006 the
quartet have held
concert cycles in Zagreb, first in the Illyrian Hall of the National
House,
followed by the Small hall in Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall. The Porin
String Quartet members are violinists Ivan Novinc and Tamara
Petir, violist Lucija Brnadić and cellist Neva Begović. They have
cooperated
with numerous prominent Croatian musicians; their repertoire consists of
classic pieces of quartet music and notably works by Croatian composers. The quartet have also won
several prestigious awards: Ivo Vuljević Prize for the most
accomplished young musicians of the year in 2002, first prize in the Darko
Lukić Competition of Young Musicians, and first prize in Radio
podij, the contest for young Croatian artists. For their concert cycle held
during the 2007/2008 season they received the greatest prize awarded to
chamber
music ensembles by the Croatian Music Artists Association, the Milka
Trnina
Award.
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