Veranstaltungen Archiv
Juli 2013.
Crazy summer party this Saturday will awaken in you the maximum enjoyment of the senses, and Dj Alen G. with its spectacular melodic hits will keep you in the rhythm of the music for the dance.
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Maria Joao - vocal; Joao Farinha - fender rhodes, electronics; André Nascimento- electronics
Maria Joao (born Maria Joao Monteiro Grancha) is a Portuguese jazz singer.
She is known for her vocal flexibility and improvisational skills. While normally considered a jazz artist, her music incorporates a mix of folk/ethnic music, modern jazz, avant-garde, electronica, symphonic and other genres.
Although her main musical partner is Portuguese pianist Mário Laginha, she has worked with many musicians throughout her career, including Aki Takase, Manu Katche, Trilok Gurtu, Bobby McFerrin, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Joe Zawinul, Ralph Towner, Dino Saluzzi, Kai Eckhardt, Gilberto Gil and Lenine.
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Bruno Mičetić - guitar; Joe Kaplowitz - keyboards; Ratko Divjak- drums
After his degree at the jazz department of the Conservatory in Klagenfurt , Bruno Mičetić has formed a trio with musicians that he worked with throughout his studies. His recent trio has performed at numerous jazz festivals.
The new trio features the American pianist, composer and arranger Joe Kaplowitz and renowned Slovenian drummer - Ratko Divjak - a member of the Big Band RTV Slovenia, known to a wider audience as a member of the legendary band TIME, as well as the winner of the discographic award “Porin” for the Lifetime Achievement. The new album "Phantom's whisper" is a hommage to jazz standards that trio plays for some time, which in it’s final shaping produces an enormous creative sound mass . The album leaves an average jazz listener in a good faith in true jazz musicians, exceptional musical personalities who surrender themselves without compromise.
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Friday, 05. 07. 2013, 21:00 h , Open Air Theatre
Saturday, 06.07. 2013, 20.00 h, Hotel Bristol
Best known for his work with Dizzy Gillespie, Afro-Cuban and jazz drummer Ignacio Berroa was born in Havana, Cuba. In 1980 Berroa moved to New York. By the next year, Dizzy Gillespie had invited him to join his quartet, and he spent the next ten years playing in the trumpeter's various groups. Ignacio Berroa has been recognized by many as one of the greatest drummers of our times. Jazz Legend Dizzy Gillespie best defined Ignacio as: “… the only Latin drummer in the world in the history of American music that intimately knows both worlds: his native Afro Cuban music as well as Jazz…”
His first album as a leader, “Codes”, released under Blue Note Records, was nominated for a Grammy in 2007. “Codes” also won a Danish Music Award in 2007 as best International Jazz Album.
He was recently honored by inclusion in the 2011 Blue Note and Modern Drummer Release entitled "Jazz Drumming Legends".
Ignacio has recorded and played with musicians of the stature of: McCoy Tyner, Chick Corea, Wynton Marsalis, Freddie Hubbard, Jackie McLean, Michael Brecker, Joe Lovano, Jaco Pastorius, Ron Carter, Charlie Haden, Tito Puente and Gonzalo Rubalcaba, just to name a few.
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Folklore Ensemble King Tomislav, New Zealand / Klapa Samoana, Samoan Islands
(Guests: Jacques Houdek, Dani Stipanicev, Miroslav Škoro)
Thursday, the 4th July 2013. at 21:30 Summer Stage, Opatija
Djabe is a Hungarian jazz and world music band formed in 1996. The group composes its own works in which jazz style is mixed with elements of Hungarian and African music. The band has performed internationally at several festivals. Moreover, they worked together with musicians, such as Steve Hackett and Ben Castle. The band’s recordings are published by Gramy Records.
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Consulting: Day of European friendship between Italy and Croatia, entitled: Croatia as a new member of the EU, the opportunities for cooperation of attorneys and lawyers in Italy and Croatia.
The organizers of consultation are: University of Rijeka, Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence Inter Opatija, Croatia Bar Association, in cooperation with the City of Opatija and the Consulate General of Italy in Rijeka.
