Events Archive
June 2008.
dedicated to the great Croatian singer Ivo Robić
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February 2008.
Cuj serenadu Opatijo bajna biseru ti naseg mora
U tvom divnom skladu ti lijepa si nocu
Prekrasna kada svane zora
Tvoj val sto se pruza do vrtova ruza
O ljubavi sapce noc i dan
Snivaj sad Opatijo bajna
Ti si najljepsa tajna i moj ljubavni san ...
Famous lyrics from Ivo Robic are continuing to play even nowadays in old well- known Christall Hall of Hotel Kvarner, on this festival of serenades and chansons in Opatija. It will gather again all the important names of this music genre.
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16.th Croatian contest for the best song that will represent us on the Eurosong this year, it's best part is happening again in Opatija.
In Zagreb on 12., 19.,26.1. and 2.,9.,16.2. will be nights before final night that is in famous Christall hall in Opatija.
This year Song of Eurovision 2008. will be on 24.05. in Serbia in Belgrade, thanks to last year winner of Eurovision 2007. Marija Serifovic and her song "Pray".
December 2007.
21.12., Friday
Romantic evening - Massimo Savic i Trio Mondi
22.12., Saturday
DRAZEN ZECIC
Entrance: 40,00 kn
23.12., Sunday
GANG EVENING
Men gangs: Volosko i Opatija
Women gangs: Kamelija i Hreljin
Bozidarka-Matija Cerina
Joso Butorac
24.12., Monday
TOGETHER ON MIDNIGHT MASS
Vivien Galetta i Voljen Grbac
Trio Mondi
25.12., Tuesday
TONI CETINSKI
Entrance: 40,00 kn
26.12., Wednesday
ROCK'N'ROLL & ROCKABILLY - Pulp Fiction
27.12., Thursday
HOMO ĆA'
Mirjana Bobus, Mario Battifiaca, Karin Kuljanic, Robert Grubisic
Trio Mondi
28.12., Friday
SAJETA and guests
New CD-a promotion
29.12., Saturday
ALPE ADRIA FOLK FEST
Entrance: 25,00 kn
30.12., Sunday
DUSKO JELICIC
BONACA
31.12., Monday
JOSO BUTORAC I VIVAK
COCTAILS BAND
NEW YEAR CELEBRATION
01.01., Tuesday
GUSTAFI
Entrance: 40,00 kn
Cafe Imperial,
Saturday; 15.12., 22.12. and 29.12.
Dance in cafe Imperial with live music - free entrance
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.
