Visit-Montenegro.com: Ivo Pogorelich, a guest at the Festival

Kotor – The Festival KotorArt will be officially launched on 13th of July with the concert of Montenegrin Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Aleksey Shatsky. Within one month programme of KotorArt, the famous Croatian pianist Ivo Pogorelich, who started giving concerts again in recent years, will perform on 16th of July in the Church of the Holy Spirit, and he will play Chopin, Ravel and Sibelius.

The founder and Artistic director of KotorArt Music Festival is Ratimir Martinovic, Montenegrin pianist who works at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad as the youngest associate piano professor.

The programme of the KotorArt Festival includes miscellaneous thematic concerts such as “Klasika alla dzez” (Classica alla jazz), “Muzika za film” (Film music), “Spanska serenada” (Spanish Serenade), “Jeste li za ples?” (May I have this dance?), “Elegancija zvuka” (Sound Elegance), “Povratak korijenima” (Back to Roots), “Srpska veza” (Serbian Contact)…

The concert “Classica alla jazz” will take place on 15th July by group “Ognjen i prijatelji” (Ognjen & Friends) from Serbia, while on 19th of July a Russian violinist Valery Oistrakh and Italian pianist Francesco de Zann, and two days later film music on a summer stage will be performed by French KFX International Orchestra.

Furthermore, Spanish flutist Claude Arimani, Canadian pianist Eugene Skovorodnikov, who will play Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven, will perform in the Church of the Holy Spirit on 22nd July. Two days later at the same place a Spanish serenade will be performed by piano duet Carlos Lama and Sofia Cabruja, one of the most internationally renowned Spanish duets.

The festival orchestra of KotorArt will invite the audience to dance on 26th July with the concert at the Square of the Cathedral of St. Tryphon, while “Sound Elegance” will be main theme of the performance of Italian guitar player Edoardo Catemario in the Church of Blessed Ozama on 29th of July.

The concert “Mendelssohn 200” celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of German composer Felix Mendelssohn will be staged by the Orchestra of the KotorArt Festival in the Cathedral of St. Tryphon on 30th July under the baton of French conductor Franco Von Coubert. Russian violinist Xenia Akeynikova and pianist Vladimir Bocharov (Russia/Montenegro) will also take part in the programme.

“Back to Roots” concert is scheduled for 3rd August and it will be performed by “Larry-Lazar Vuckovic jazz trio” with guest guitarist Josh Workman at Piazza di Kino.

Bach and Haydn will be the main focus of the stage performance of the festival orchestra conducted by Tomislav Facini from Croatia with oboist Gordana Josifova Nedelkovska, Italian violinist Franco Megieno and Polish horn player Dariusz Mikulski who will perform as solo players in the Mother of God’s Church in Prcanj two days later.

The concert named “Serbian Contact” is announced for 7th August in the Church of Holy Matthias and audiences will have the opportunity to listen to the clarinetist Aleksandar Tasic and the guitarist Zoran Krajisnik (Bosnia and Herzegovina/Serbia) who will play Barroso, Gershwin and Piazzolla.

“Lady at the Piano” on 9th of August will be a prominent Turkish pianist Gulsin Onay accompanied by the KotorArt orchestra who will perform on 11th August in the Church of St. Nicholas on the occasion of celebrating the church’s 100th anniversary.

The festival’s orchestra will be conducted by the composer & conductor Ivan Moody (Great Britain/Portugal) and Serbian conductor Bogdan Djakovic.

At the very close of the festival, audience will be given a chance to enjoy in the world premiere of “Hymn to St. Nicholas” commissioned by KotorArt and composed by Moody.

By K.V.