Events Archive
February 2014.
DJs SUB
Selecter from Venice
SATURDAY
02/15/2014.
15h
in front of the Art Pavilion Juraj Sporer-Opatija
July 2013.
On the occasion of the Day of Opatija, on 20th of July in front of the AP Juraj Sporer, there will be a concert of Opatija Group 4'33"
Read More »July 2008.
Ivo Robić, the most famous Croatian pop music singer older generation, began his career on the terrace of the Hotel Kvarner in Opatija, and for many years performed at the festival in Opatija, MIK and elsewhere. The exhibition presents his music and life through the records, objects of personal use, prizes and awards, photographs and news clips also using audio and video materials.
Read More »October 2007.
3. Jazz Ex tempore:Workshop Tradition in transition: from traditional Sardenian music to jazz Enzo Favata (Sardenia, Italy)
Enzo Favata
Enzo FavataEnzo Favata is one of the most active and well-known Sardinian musicians. He plays the saxophone and sopranino sax other wind instruments, above all ethnic ones from Sardinia. His research joins the arcane and the modern, experimenting with different languages and musical cultures.
After having played traditional jazz for some years, 1992. he make the Jana Project - a project which weds ethnic music from other parts of the world with jazz improvisation.
During the same period he developed another project with the guitarist Marcello Peghin and the percussionist Roberto Pellegrini: Tangram Trio, an experimental group in the field of contemporary jazz and vanguard music, halfway between minimalism, noise music and underground. In 1995 this group won a European competition in Poitiers as best improvising group.
Alongside the concert experience was that of musical production for soundtracks working with RAI, radio and television, dance and theatre.
At the start of 1993 he debutted as the composer of soundtracks for cinema, putting his name to the music of a film“With love ….Fabia” by the Italian director Maria Teresa Camoglio. The experience was repeated in 1995 with the film by the director Antonello Grimaldi “The sky is ever bluer” presented at international film festival of Berlin.
1997 saw an important collaboration with a master of the Argentine bandoneon, Dino Saluzzi. This collaboration was recorded on the Cd Ajò. The disc had been placed in the best discs of 1997 according to the World Music Charts Europe
Yuri Golubev
Yuri GolubevBorn in Moscow, Russia, in 1972. Receiving his Master’s Degree in double bass as a soloist and chamber music performer from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory in 1995 (where he has also studied classical composition).
In 2002 Yuri becomes the youngest bass player ever in the history of both USSR and Russia to be awarded the prestigious title of the Honored Artist of Russia by President.
From 1991 till 1992 Yuri performs with the famed Bolshoi Opera, and from 1992 till 2004 holds a position of the Principal Bass with one of the world’s most noted chamber orchestras with one of the world's most noted chamber orchestras - Moscow Soloists directed by Yuri Bashmet. In this way he collaborated with some of the top classical artists: Thomas Quasthoff, Lynn Harrell, James Galway, Gidon Kremer, Barbara Hendricks, Sviatoslav Richter, Mstislav Rostropovich, Vladimir Spivakov, Maxim Vengerov.
Has also performed with such orchestras as l'Orchestra Filarmonica del Teatro alla Scala and l'Orchestra Filarmonica Toscanini and wrote a number of jazz and chamber music works as well as bass transcriptions and arrangements. Some of these works are published in Russia, Germany and the United States. In addition, he has lead diverse master classes in the field of both classical and jazz music in the United States, England, Ireland and Italy.
After many years of a splendid career in classical field, Yuri moves to Milan and dedicates himself exclusively to what he considers his “true call”: jazz music.
In his "adopted home", Italy, he rapidly attracts attention of many important Italian musicians, and this brings him numerous collaborations with such artists asEnrico Pieranunzi, Rosario Giuliani, Franco Cerri, Glauco Venier, Claudio Fasoli, Giovanni Falzone, Guido Manusardi, Gianni Cazzola, Massimo Manzi, and many other musicians from overseas Adam Nussbaum, Miles Griffith, Gwilym Simcock, Asaf Sirkis, and others.
3. Jazz Ex Tempore:Workshop From piano to bandoneon - in search of expression Daniele Di Bonaventura (Italy)
Daniele Di Bonaventura
Daniele Di BonaventuraDaniele di Bonaventura is a composer-arranger and a pianist-bandoneonist. He was born in Italy in 1966. He started a classical training at the age of 8 and studied grand piano, cello, composing and orchestration. He obtained a diploma in composing. His music ranges from classical to contemporary music, from jazz to tango, from ethnic to world music.
He has played, recorded and collaborated with: Enrico Rava; Paolo Fresu; Oliver Lake; David Murray; Miroslav Vitous; Rita Marcotulli; David Liebman; Toots Tielemans; Omar Sosa; Flavio Boltro; Joanne Brackeen; Greg Osby; Ira Coleman; Dino Saluzzi; Javier Girotto; Cèsar Stroscio; Tenores di Bitti; Enzo Favata; Aires Tango; A Filetta.
In 2003, at the request of the Marchigiana Philharmonic Orchestra, he composed, played and recorded the "Suite for bandoneon and Orchestra" for them.
His latest collaboration was with Miroslav Vitous who invited him to record his new album "Universal Syncopation II". It is to be released in 2007 on the prestigious German label ECM.
Silvia Abalos
Silvia AbalosSilvia Abalos was born in Guadalajara, (Mexico). From her childhood she entered into theater’s world, classic ballet and Mexican folkloric dance. In the age of 14 she started a singing career, studying old mexican traditional music in indigenous languages as Huichol, Purépecha, Náhuatl and Zapoteco.
In the same time, she started to work as an actress and a choreographer in over 20 showcases. She became a member of the famous theater companies Mima and Pantomima’s Company of Bellas Artes of Jalisco and Itaca from Mexico City. She collaborates with directors Marta Luna, Bruno Bert, Luis Partida, Jorge Villagomez, Chela Orozco.
As a singer, she works with number of bands: : "Entropia", "Banco del ruido", "Gore Matraka” "Ache", "Cuba libre", "Rumbatey", “Banda Sonera de París”, “Las Manos Calientes”, “Son Bacán”, “El Truco Mexicano” and “Te’Ome”.
August 2006.
