Final concert of 4th Belgrade Baroque Academy

BELGRADE - The participants of the 4th international Belgrade Baroque Academy, dedicated to "Scenes from operas by Handel and Monteverdi", which took place last week, will give the final public performance on Saturday evening at the Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade.

The founder of the Baroque Academy, conductor and harpsichordist, Predrag Gosta, one of the most active Serbian music artists abroad, and the renowned baroque contralto Marijana Mijanovic (Serbia/Switzerland) will be leading the participants of the Baroque Academy in the Saturday's concert.

The Baroque Academy, founded last year, has been organized in Belgrade for the fourth time by the Studio for Early Music, with the support of the international Early Music Network, the US-based Makris Foundation and the Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade.

The Academy was established with an idea to introduce young vocalists and instrumentalists to the historically informed performance of music of the 17th and 18th centuries. The Academy particularly focuses on the historical principles of interpretation, using instruments created in the same era as the music itself, underlined Gosta.

The 4th Baroque Academy has gathered 12 participants from Serbia, Germany and Great Britain, and the teachers include Mijanovic, Gosta, pianist and harpsichordist Bojana Dimkovic, Karolina Bater (flute) and director Sofija Perovic, who directed all opera scenes for the occasion.

Out of 12 participants, nine are solo singers and three are instrumentalists. For the final public concert, they will perform arias, duets and tercets from the baroque operas composed by Claudio Monteverdi and Georg Friedrich Handel.

Photo Tanjug, M. Jelesijevic (Archive, illustration)