04.03.2026. [20:00] MozArte Piano Quartet

The beautiful Art Nouveau contours of our Ivo Tijardović Concert Halls will come alive in combination with the refined, intimate, expressive and passionate lines of chamber works from the Baroque to the contemporary, in a powerful new synesthesia of space and sound at a series of concerts Winter Classical FestivalIn order to provide our citizens and guests with the highest quality musical content and enliven the winter months, we are hosting top domestic and foreign musicians who will reflect each other in four concerts in the harmonies of Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Rachmaninoff and many others.

World pianist name, English pianist Peter Donohoe, he began his first steps in the world of music by studying with the great Olivier Messiaen and Yvonne Loriod, since which time his countless successes, performances and recordings with top orchestras and conductors, in the most important halls of the world, began. Over the past few seasons, he has performed with the BBC Philharmonic, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Cape Town Philharmonic, the Dresden Philharmonic, the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and a number of others, and his collaborations include performances and recordings of all three concertos by one of the most sought-after contemporary composers, James MacMillan. At his recital in Split, he brings a kind of hommage Chopin, choosing Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Op. 22, S. Rachmaninoff, and Variations on a Theme of Chopin BV213a, F. Busoni, not bypassing himself Chopin, with his 24 preludes op. 28, and adding Tchaikovsky and his 6 pieces on one theme, op. 21.

Top Croatian clarinetist Marija Pavlović She has won a number of prestigious awards, and has performed throughout Europe and the world with orchestras and ensembles such as the Montreal Chamber Orchestra, the Brussels Chamber Orchestra, the Flanders Symphony Orchestra, Gli Archi Scaligeri, the Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano and Trento, the Zagreb Soloists, the Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra, the Croatian Chamber Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of the Croatian Radio and Television, the Rijeka Philharmonic, the Montenegrin Symphony Orchestra, and the Sichuan Symphony Orchestra. She is a lover of chamber music and is a member of the DeBewoners ensemble from Antwerp, where she is a clarinet professor at the Royal Conservatory there. The Split concert will be an exceptional musical encounter with two clarinet trios, the Trio in B flat major, op. 11 "Gassenhauer" L. van Beethoven and Trio in A minor, Op. 114. J. Brahms – will join her Nino Gvetadze, pianist world-renowned from Georgia, and a renowned German cellist Justus Grim.

One of our longest-standing and most respected ensembles, Zagreb Saxophone Quartet, which consists of the doyens of our musical scene: Dragan Sremec, Goran Mercep, Sasa Nestorovic i Matjaž Drevenšek, performs with a program ranging from Johann Sebastian Bach to Gordan Tudor, via Sergei Prokofiev and Phil Woods. The energetic harmonies of the saxophone quartet transform the baroque polyphonic handwriting of the great JS Bach into the magic of sound in his Italian Concerto BWV 971, as well as the dangerous emotional carousel on which the suite full of contrasts and drama from the ballet takes us Romeo and Juliet S. ProkofievAttractive, always compositionally well thought out and often surprising inspirations await us in A few miniatures top saxophonist and composer Gordana Tudor, as in Three improvisations one of the leading American jazz saxophonists and composers of the mid-20th century, Phil Woods.

European Guitar Quartet (European Guitar Quartet) brings together four top European guitarists, whose reputation as soloists contributes to this relatively new ensemble, founded in 2012. It consists of guitarists from various European countries: Zoran Dukić (Croatia), Pavel Steidl (Czech Republic), Thomas Fellow i Reentko Dirks (Germany). They made their joint debut in Dresden in 2012, and have since performed all over the world, inspiring composers to write new works dedicated to this quartet.

The concert in Split, as part of the Winter Festival of Classics, brings an amalgam where classics, tango, rock and world music meet, while works of different genres find links in the covers of the members of the ensemble, who are composers themselves – Thomas Fellow, Reentko Dirks and Pavel Steidl. The range of selected compositions ranges from selections from Paganini's 43 Ghiribizzi for guitar solo (performed by R. Dirks), over the work Astor Piazzolla in arrangements for guitar quartet, The four seasons i Concerto for quintet, to arrangements of songs Jimmy Hendrix,Purple Haze,  Frank Zappa,Father O'Blivion, and original compositions by R. Dirks, P. Steidl and T. Fellow.

Another superb selection of chamber music awaits us in performance Piano Quartet MozArte, composed of top European musicians: Alyssa Margulis, violin, Gareth Lubbe, viola, Thorleif Thedeen, cello, Andreas Frölich, piano. Each of these musicians can boast a rich career, both as a soloist and in chamber music, on stages across Europe and the world. The selection of this ensemble is dominated by music WA Mozart, his two piano quartets, the one in G minor, KV. 478, and the one in E flat major, KV. 452. The contrasting mood and escape to some more southern latitudes are brought by the compositions Joaquin Turina, his Piano Quartet in A minor, Op. 67, imbued with Spanish idiom and evocation of the nights of Turin's native Seville, while sensual tango echoes in Las cuatro estaciones porteñas (The four seasons) for piano quartet Astor Piazzolla.

Zrinka Matić