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SHLOMO MINTZ, conductor NEWS
ZPO CHIEF CONDUCTOR VJEKOSLAV SUTEJ DIED
 Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra chief conductor Vjekoslav Šutej died on 2 December 2009. after a long illness. Sutej led orchestras in Austria, Germany, USA, Italy and Spain and worked with many opera stars like Placido Domingo, Jose Carreras and Montserrat Caballe. In the late 1980s Sutej was art director of the Hollybush Festival in New Jersey. He later worked as art director of the Gran Teatro Fenice in Venice, and of the Houston Grand Opera in Texas. He was a Vienna State Opera conductor and led four Christmas concerts with Domingo and Carreras.MILJENKO PULJIC NOMINATED FOR ANOTHER TERM AS ZPO MANAGING DIRECTOR  The Zagreb City Council The Zagreb nominated the present managing director of the Zagreb Philharmonijc Orchestra Miljenko Puljic for another term. The City Council ’s decision was preceded by the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra Board decision and Orchestra members’ voting where Miljenko Puljic got 51 votes and his concurrent Davor Reba 39 votes.
LONG APPLAUSE FOR ZAGREB PHILHARMONIC AT SOLD OUT  Sunday, November 8th, 2009, the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra had a very successful performance at one of the world’s most prestigious concert halls – Musikverein’s Golden Hall in Vienna, as a part of the 5th festival of the Croatian music in Vienna.
Ivan Repusic conducted the orchestra and Martina Filjak was the soloist on the piano. The concert programme was the same as on November 6th at the V. Lisinski Concert Hall: The programme included: B. Papandopulo: HOMMAGE Á BACH
S. Rachmaninoff: PIANO CONCERTO No. 2 in C minor, op.18 H. Berlioz: SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE, op. 14
The Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra appeared for the first time at the Golden Hall of The Musikverein in December 2002 under the baton of maestro Vjekoslav Sutej. Winners of Chopin competition will perform with the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra  The project coordinator of the project Fryderyk Chopin 2010, Monika Strugala, visited Zagreb with her husband, renowned Polish conductor Tadeusz Strugala. At a joint meeting with the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra’s managing director Miljenko Puljic, they agreed that the winners of the Fryderyk Chopin competition will perform as soloists with the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra. The international competition Fryderyk Chopin is the most prestigious piano competition in the world. It was founded in 1927 and since 1955 it has been held every five years. In the year 2010 the Fryderyk Chopin Institute will celebrate with special programme the 200th birth anniversary of the most famous Polish composer.The Porin award to the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra for the best classical music album  The leading Croatian award in discography Porin, in 2009 was given to the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra for the recording of the Third piano concerto and The violin concerto by Boris Papandopulo, under the direction of Pavle Dešpalj and will the pianist Dalibor Cikojević and violinist Sidonija Lebar as soloists. The CD was co-published by the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra and Aquarius Records.Virgin published CD of Inva Mula and Zagreb Philharmonic
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LEOPOLD HAGER CONDUCTING A CONCERT WITH MARTIN GABRIEL ON OBOE The concert in the White octave series of the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra on Friday, January 15th, 2010, was conducted by Leopold Hager, for many years chief conductor of the Mozarteum Orchestra in Salzburg and chief conductor of the Volksoper in Vienna. Soloist was the first oboe player of the Vienna Philharmonic – Martin Gabriel. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s 254th birth anniversary is taking place in January this year. For that occasion, the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra had prepared a programme dedicated to the genius from Salzburg. The programme included: W. A. Mozart: SYMPHONY No. 35 in D major, K. 385, Haffner TRADITIONAL ZAGREB PHILHARMONIC BALL Wednesday, December 30, 2009, at 8.30 PM, at the V. Lisinski concert hall, the traditional Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra’s Philharmonic Ball was held under the direction of Benjamin Wallfisch. CHRISTMAS CONCERT WITH JOSÉ CARRERAS AT THE ZAGREB ARENA  Saturday, December 19th, the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, under the direction of Ivo Lipanovic, performed a charity concert at the Zagreb Arena with one of the world’s most renowned tenors, José Carreras.  Other performers were the Irish soprano Celine Byrne, Tony Cetinski, SCAA choir Ivan Goran Kovacic, Girls’ choir Zvjezdice and others.
DENYCE GRACE PERFORMED AS SOLOIST, IVO LIPANOVIC CONDUCTED Friday, December 11th 2009, the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, performed in a Blue Octave concert conducted by Ivo Lipanovic. The world famous mezzosoprano Denyce Graves performed as soloist. The programme included arias by F.Cilea, C.Saint-Saëns, S.Barber, G.Bizet and gospel. Friday, December 4th 2009, the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra performed in a Blue Octave concert conducted by Schlomo Mintz, while Monika Leskovar was the soloist on the cello. The programme: Samuel Barber: ADAGIO for strings, op. 11 GIFT CONCERT – BRUNO BJELINSKI’S 100th BIRTH ANNIVERSARY
  
Friday, November 27, 2009 at 7,30 pm at the V. Lisinski concert hall, the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra had a gift concert to celebrate 100th birth anniversary of the Croatian composer Bruno Bjelinski. GALA CONCERT FOR 110TH BIRTH ANNIVERSARY OF LOVRO PL. MATACIC 
Friday, November 20th, 2009 at the V. Lisinski Concert Hall the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra had a gala-concert by the Lovro & Lilly Matacic Fund, for the 110th birth anniversary of Lovro pl. Matacic. MICHAL DWORZINSKY and CHI-BUN JIMMY CHIANG conducted the orchestra and the soprano ANNE BAXTER was the soloist.
 The concert programme:
Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky: SYMPHONY No. 1 in G minor, op.13, Winter Daydreams
Gustav Mahler: SYMPHONY No. 4 in G major
MAKSIM MRVICA AND ZAGREB PHILHARMONIC 
Friday, November 13, 2009, at the V. Lisinski Concert Hall at 7,30 pm, the world-known young Croatian pianist Maksim Mrvica performed with the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Alan Bjelinski. Concert programme:
P. Ilych Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture
A. Dvořak: New World Concerto (arr. John Lenehan)
Freddie Mercury: Bohemian Rhapsody (arr. Tolga Kashif)
F. Chopin: Nocturne in E-flat major
A. Skriabin: Etude in D-sharp minor, Op. 8 No. 12
Maurice Ravel: La Valse
Ernest Gold: Exodus
T. Huljic: Child in Paradise, Claudine
Edvard Grieg: In The Hall Of The Mountain King (Peer Gynt, suite No. 3)
IVAN REPUSIC CONDUCTED, MARTINA FILJAK ON THE PIANO On Friday, November 6, 2009 at 7,30 pm the Zagreb Philharmonic orchestra played at Lisinki Hall. Ivan Repusic conducted the orchestra and the pianist Martina Filjak was the soloist. The programme included: B. Papandopulo: HOMMAGE Á BACH
S. Rachmaninoff: PIANO CONCERTO No. 2 in C minor, op.18 H. Berlioz: SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE, op. 14  TÕNU KALJUSTE CONDUCTED, PETRIT ÇEKU ON GUITAR
EAST WEST ACOUSTIC PROJECT ZF CONCERT AT THE NATIONAL LIBRARY HALL
The Concerts for night birds series of the Acoustic Project ZF ensemble continued with the East West concert on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 21.21 at the Croatian National Library hall in Zagreb.
The concert programme:
Boris Papandopulo: Mosaic, for jazz quartet and string quartet
Dubravko Palanovic: Solo for Mister and virtuosi, for viola solo and ensemble
W.A.Mozart / D.Palanovic: Mozart in an oriental way, for flute and ensemble
Jimmy Page / arr. D. Palanovic: Dazed and Confused, for ensemble ZPO back in Lisinski Hall: Despalj conducted, Pohjonen on the piano 
The concert in the Blue Octave series planned for September 25th was held on October 23rd at 7.30 pm at Lisinski Hall. The orchestra was directed by Pavle Despalj, Juho Pohjonen was the soloist on the piano. The programme includes works of Papandopulo, Shostakovich and Brahms. Marriner conducted, Vlatkovic on the horn .jpg) On Friday, October 16th, 2009, at the concert of the Red Octave series, the orchestra, directed by Sir Neville Marriner and with Radovan Vlatkovic on the horn, played Haydn, Mozart and Mendelssohn-Barholdy. The programme: Sir Neville Marriner opened the season 2009/2010 On Friday, October 9th, 2009, at the concert of the Blue Octave series, the Zagreb Philharmonic orchestra was directed by the famous Sir Neville Marriner, with Orest Shourgot on violin. The programme: |
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Friday, February 5, 2010
At the end of the first part, concluded by the numerous audience’s ovations, Martina Filjak played an encore – ETUDE op. 4 No. 4 by Karol Szymanowski. At the end of the concert, after a long applause, the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra played an encore as well – Dvořák’s SLAVONIC DANCE op. 46 No. 8 in G minor. 
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