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MICHAEL PEPA     STRING QUARTET No. 1, "NEKUIA" (1974)

                  ERIMIA
                  XOROS
                  XOROIMANIA
                  IREMIA

BERISLAV SIPUS    STRING QUARTET No. 2 (2010) - World Premiere

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                ANDANTE
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DMITRI SOSTAKOVICH      STRING QUARTET IN F - MAJOR, NO.3, OP.73 (1946)

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                        MODERATO CON MOTO
                        ALLEGRO NON TROPPO
                        ADAGIO
                        MODERATO

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 of Croatian 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.

Monday, May 24, 2010 - 8:00 p.m. - Chapelle Historique du Bon Pasteur, 100, rue Sherbrook Est, Montreal

Preseented by: Les AMIS Concerts and The Consulate General of the Republic of Croatia in Mississauga

Wednesday, May 26, 2010 - 1:15 p.m. - Arts and Letters Club, 14 Elm St., Toronto

Thursday, May 27, 2010 - 7:30 p.m. - Library at Archives Canada, 395 Wellington St., Ottawa

Presented by: The Embassy of the Republic of Croatia in Ottawa, Canada and Les AMIS Concerts