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 The International Harpsichord Festival in Belgrade organised by the Belgrade Cultural Centre has been a unique event in South-Eastern Europe, and the entire Old Continent as well, since its inception. Its objective to promote the harpsichord as a four hunderd-year-old solo and chamber music instrument makes this event one of the key factors in the process of preserving European music culture and cultural heritage. During the previous editions of the Festival, numerous music aficionados and young people have been given a unique opportunity to enjoy music pieces from four hundred-year-old literature performed by some of the most prominent harpsichordists and pedagogues in this domain from the USA, Israel, Spain, France, Germany, Hungary, Slovenia, Serbia and other European countries. Let us not forget excellent master classes as well.
The sixth edition of the Festival will be held in the Atrium of the National Museum (concerts) and Austrian Kulturforum in Belgrade (master classes) from 2nd to 13th November. It will fulfil the highest artistic and educational demands this year, as well. This year’s participants are highly appraised and renowned artists and university pedagogues from various European academic institutions and schools as well as young harpsichordists from Belgrade and Serbia. This year’s programme focuses on presenting several composers in form of their individual concerts. On the occasion of the 250th anniversary of George Friedrich Handel’s death, two concerts at the very beginning of the Festival will be dedicated to this outstanding figure in baroque music. Then, there are concerts dedicated to Girolamo Frescobaldi (performance by Christopher Stembridge), Antonio de Cabezón (performance by Laura Puerto) and our contemporary composer and fellow citizen Miloš Petrović (performance by M. Petrović). Music for two harpsichords (S. Stojanović-Kutlača and Ágnes Várallyay) comes afterwards. At the end, the audience will have a pleasure to hear young harpsichordists from the Festival master classes.
On the occasion of the 250th anniversary of George Friedrich Handel’s death, two concerts at the very beginning of the Festival will be dedicated to this outstanding figure in baroque music.
PROGRAMME OF THE FESTIVAL:
Monday, 2nd November:
Opening night and XXIX birthday of Dragstor ozbiljne muzike BG 202; live broadcast
20:00 - Handel and Friends (250th anniversary of the death of Georg Friedrich Handel, I part)
Soloists: Snežana Savičić, soprano; Mateja Bajt (Slovenia), recorder; Smiljka Isaković, harpsichord; Aleksandar Solunac, trumpet
Strings: Gordan Trajković and Miloš Petrović, violins; Boris Brezovac, viola; Dejan Božić, violoncello; artistic leader and harpsichord: Egon Mihajlović (Germany); moderator: Dejan Đurović
Tuesday, 3rd November:
20:00 - Handel - harpsichord music (250th anniversary of the death of Georg Friedrich Handel, II part)
Egon Mihajlović (Germany)
Thursday, 5th November:
20:00 - Author's Concert
Miloš Petrović (Serbia); harpsichord - piano
Saturday, 7th November:
20;00 - Laura Puerto (Spain)
Programme: Early Baroque music of Spain
*in collaboration with Instituto Cervantes
Monday, 9th November:
20:00 - Music for two harpsichords
Duo Ágnes Várallyay (Hungary) and Svetlana Stojanović Kutlača (Serbia)
Programme: G.H. Handel, J.S. Bach, W. F. Bach, A. Soler
Wednesday, 11th November:
20:00 - Christopher Stembridge (UK)
Programme: 12 Toccatas of Girolamo Frescobaldi
Friday, 13th November:
20:00 - Concert of the Harpsichord Masterclasses participants
Free entrance.
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