In addition to top classical and jazz concerts, a photo exhibition "Jazz Reflection" is planned for the beginning of April, as well as a program for children and young people with the fifteenth consecutive performance of Teta Operetta and Barb Klavalir and the first consecutive public performance of the new interactive concert "Carnival of Animals" with maestro Hari Zlodra and the orchestra of UMAS students. The classical music cycle brings the "Evening of Croatian Composers" with the Violin duo Krpan, as well as the long-awaited concert of our world-famous opera singer Ante Jerkunica with friends, while "Jazz Saturday" brings the first concert of the Mimike Orchestra in full force in Split, as well as the concert of the Leon Brenko Trio .

The program starts April 4th with a concert by the Krpan Violin Duo which profiled itself as "a well-coordinated team, which constantly finds interesting, often forgotten works composed for two violins and encourages the creation of new ones." For this concert, they prepared the "Evening of Croatian Composers". In addition to Bach and Bartok, the program will include compositions by Ivan Mana Jarnović, Miroslav Šlik, Tomislav Uhlik, Boris Papandopulo and Josip Štolcer Slavenski. So far, father and son, Anđelko and Martin Krpan, have released three joint albums. One of the most respected Croatian violinists, Anđelko Krpan, in addition to performing as a soloist, also performs as the first violinist of the Sebastian String Quartet, of which he is one of the founders. He is a professor of violin at the Academy of Music in Zagreb and has been awarded a number of awards and recognitions. Martin Krpan is the first violinist of the Zagreb Quartet. He performed as a soloist with the Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, the Zagreb Soloists, the String Orchestra of the Croatian Musical Youth and the Sebastian String Quartet. In 2016, he was concert master of the international orchestra Euphony. He has won a number of awards at Croatian and foreign competitions.

April 5 at 18 p.m. for the first time this season, a performance of the new interactive concert "Carnival of Animals" was on sale. This interactive concert for children and young people is held in co-production with the Academy of Arts in Split. An orchestra of about twenty students under the leadership of their professor, experienced conductor Harij Zlodra, performs an integral suite of fourteen movements, during which, in a casual atmosphere, the students will get to know the characteristics of the instruments and the orchestra as an ensemble. Although Carnival of the Animals was originally composed for a small chamber orchestra including two pianos, two violins, viola, cello, double bass, flute and piccolo flute, clarinet, xylophone and glass accordion, the suite is often performed today in various transcriptions, including one for full orchestra. . In the performance of the UMAS Orchestra, the string and wind sections will be marked by instrumental reinforcement, while a pianist will skilfully unite the two piano sections.

A special spring jazz cycle called "Jazz Saturdays" begins in the Ivo Tijardović concert hall April 6 at 18:30 p.m with the opening of the photo exhibition "Jazz Reflection" by journalist and photographer Davor Hrvoje, editor of the Croatian jazz portal jazz.hr. the same evening, April 6 at 20 p.m., performed by the Mimika Orchestra, who is performing in Split for the first time with the full line-up with material from the latest album Altur Mur ("Temple of the sea", in the extinct Veljot language of the Croatian coast), the previous album Divinities of the Earth and the Waters and an exclusive premiere of new compositions from the as yet unrecorded latest project. Mimika Orchestra is an eclectic twenty-member band that performs its own, well-known material and leads the audience into an ecstasy of rhythm and emotion through music and stage performance.

April 12th the long-awaited concert of our world-famous opera singer will take place Ante Jerkunice with friends. Bass Ante Jerkunica and his colleagues and friends, mezzo-soprano Žana Marendić, violinist Marica Rogošić, cellist Sunčana Tušek, pianist Zoran Velić and conductor and pianist Hari Zlodre, prepared a gala evening of the most attractive opera excerpts, where, in addition to the most famous ones, such as Rossini's La calunnia from The Barber of Seville, or the Dalila and Carmen arias from the masterpieces of French opera of the 19th century, Camille Saint-Saens' Samson and Dalila and Georges Bizet's Carmen, illuminate the not-so-everyday repertoire, such as excerpts from Rossini's The Italian Woman in Ažir or Massenet's Don Quixote. The Verdian phrase will be demonstrated by our celebrated bass in two fundamental arias of the bass repertoire - the touching aria Fiesco from the opera Simon Boccanegra as well as the aria of King Philip from the opera Don Carlos, Ella giammai m'amó! Opera excerpts are interspersed with instrumental excerpts by F. Chopin, F. Mompou, P. Mascagni and J. Massenet, performed by some of the most outstanding Split musicians.

Jazz on Saturdays continues with Leon Brenko Trio concert April 13th. Pula musician Leon Brenko is an excellent keyboardist, but also an imaginative composer. He is a versatile instrumentalist who has tried his hand at performing various genres. During his twenty-year career, he worked as a concert and studio musician, as well as an arranger, collaborating with famous Croatian performers. Some of the projects in which he participated won Porin awards.

April 15 at 11 a.m the fifteenth consecutive performance of Teta Operetta and Barbo Klavalir will be performed for the youngest audience. Teta Opereta and Barba Klavalir, a singer and a pianist, are characters who "live" in the magical world of the Ivo Tijardović Concert Hall and will be introduced to children through opera, the queen of musical performing arts, and through the story of who lives in that world and how she creates and emerges in community, will bring her beauty closer to children. Along with mezzo-soprano Žana Marendić in the role of Teta Operetta, the author of the play, and Zoran Velić, an academic pianist in the role of Barb Klavalir, students of the Josip Hatze School of Music and Studen of the Academy of Arts in Split actively participate in the play as actors, singers and musicians.

You can find the entire program until the end of the season on the website of the Croatian Home Split.