16.07.2024, Gropina, Italy
- String Quartet Festival
Program:
- Alexander Borodin – String Quartet No.
2 in D Major: I. Allegro moderato - Alessandro Grego – Burnt Norton*
- Franz Schubert – String Quartet No. 14 in
D Minor, D. 810 „Death and the Maiden”
21:00, Pieve di Gropina
*premiere
“Music is a woman”
Contemporary Balkan chamber music written by women composers.
The Ex Jugosławia project was created in 2016 on the initiative of the Chamber Music Institute. J. Haydn at the Universitat für Musik und Kunst darstellende in Vienna. The project, whose author and main coordinator is Vida Vujić, MA (lecturer at the above-mentioned University, cellist), was aimed at discovering to a wider audience the contemporary chamber works of women composers from the countries of the former Yugoslavia (Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia).
During the concerts, Antarja Quartet had the pleasure of performing works by the most recognized composers in southern Europe: Jana Andreevska, Isidora Žebeljan, Sanda Majurec, Urška Pompe, Laura Čuperjani, Valentina Velkovska-Trajanovska and Ivana Stefanović. Their compositions open up a completely new world to the listener, showing the multicolor and extraordinary temperament of Balkan culture. In several works you can still hear echoes of the not-so-distant war in Yugoslavia, reminding us of the dramas related to it. On the other hand, the authors do not give up the traditional influences of their native culture. The power of expression is so intense that it forces the listener to concentrate deeply and follow the narrative of the concert. Each of the presented pieces impresses with its originality and imagination . The power of expression is so great that it forces the listener to concentrate deeply and encourages reflection.
Symposia and concerts took place in Vienna, Ljubljana, Skopje, Belgrade and Copenhagen, where each presentation of this outstanding music was received by the audience with enthusiastic ovations. In all these European capitals, the project was received with incredible interest.
Program:
- Sanda Majurec – Harmonies du matin
- Laura Mjeda Čuperjani – Strinx
- Urška Pompe – …rain’s cool finger-tips…
- Jana Andreevska – Am I a Falcon, a Storm or an Unending Song
- Ivana Stefanovič – Play Strindberg
- Valentina Velkovska Trajanovska – The Transfiguration
- Isidora Žebeljan – Polomka Quartet
19.02.2023/17:00, Concert Hall in PSM Jastrzębie Zdrój
On Sunday, February 19, in Jastrzębie-Zdrój, you will have the opportunity to listen to a unique program prepared to celebrate the release of the ensemble’s new album, titled *Krzanowscy*. The artists will present moving works from the Romantic era by Schubert and Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, contrasting them with contemporary compositions by Grażyna and Andrzej Krzanowski, a married composer duo who dedicated their artistic lives to Silesia. During the concert, we will explore the shared elements connecting the works of these two distinct eras together with the quartet. After the concert, there will also be an opportunity to meet with composer Grażyna Krzanowska.