Location: Foyer, Croatian National Theatre (HNK) Split

Date and Time: November 14, 2024, beginning at 6:00 p.m.

As part of the 12th Bach Days in Split, a concert by the String Orchestra and soloists from the Arts Academy of the University of Split will take place on Thursday, November 14, 2024, at 6:00 p.m. in the foyer of the Croatian National Theatre (HNK) Split, under the direction of Wladimir Kossjanenko.

The concert program will feature four masterpieces from the Baroque period:

• Concerto for Two Violins and Strings and Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 by Johann Sebastian Bach, along with two compositions by renowned contemporaries of the great composer:
• Viola Concerto in G major by Georg Philipp Telemann and
• the Concerto for Two Violins and Strings from L’estro armonico by Antonio Vivaldi.

Soloists include students from the Department of String Instruments and Guitar: Josip Veselić – viola (mentor Wladimir Kossjanenko), Dorotea Rukavina and Petra Subašić – violins (mentor Loris Grubišić), Marta Medan, and Viktor Galuf – violins (mentor Evgenia Epshtein). Professors from the Arts Academy will also perform: Zoran Velić – piano, Marko Zupan – flute, and Wladimir Kossjanenko – violin.

Admission is free.

Bach Days received recognition as a "Remarkable Festival of Europe 2019-2021" by the European Festival Association in Brussels. Since its founding in 2012, over 150 musicians of all generations from 19 countries have performed in the festival’s 30 concerts.

Program:

G. Ph. Telemann (1681–1767): Viola Concerto in G Major TWV 51

Largo 2. Allegro 3. Andante 4. Presto

Soloist: Josip Veselić – viola (mentor Wladimir Kossjanenko)

Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741): Concerto for Two Violins and Strings in A Minor, L’estro armonico, op. 8 no. 3 RV 522

Allegro 2. Larghetto e spirituoso 3. Allegro

Soloists: Dorotea Rukavina, Petra Subašić – violins (mentor Loris Grubišić)

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750): Concerto for Two Violins and Strings in D Minor BWV 1043

Vivace 2. Largo ma non tanto 3. Allegro

Soloists: Marta Medan, Viktor Galuf – violins (mentor Evgenia Epshtein)

Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 for Piano, Flute, and Violin in D Major BWV 1050

Allegro 2. Affettuoso 3. Allegro

Soloists: Professors Zoran Velić – piano, Marko Zupan – flute, Wladimir Kossjanenko – violin

String Orchestra of the Arts Academy of the University of Split:

Viktor Galuf, concertmaster

Mia Štimac, Dorotea Rukavina, Petra Subašić, Natalie Jelić – 1st Violins

Marta Medan, Isabella Goverdovskaya, Laura Kanešić, Peteris Caune – 2nd Violins

Josip Veselić, Ema Boljevčan, Božana Pandža – Violas

Dina Čajević Glojnarić, Martina Janevska, Karolina Kanižaj, Elza Filipović – Cellos

Prof. Piero Malkoč – Double Bass

Wladimir Kossjanenko – conductor and violin