The sixth concert of the Cantus Ensemble cycle in the 2025/2026 season, entitled Neither Yesterday, Nor Today – Only Tomorrow, brings an evening of powerful authorial poetics, new soundscapes and as many as seven premieres by Croatian composers of different generations and aesthetic orientations.
On Friday, April 17, at the Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall, as part of the Zagreb Philharmonic's Blue Cycle, the audience can expect a rare musical experience in which the double bass becomes the star of the evening.
The fourth concert in the Cantus Ansambl cycle – Aged 20 Years – Musical Links – will take place on Monday, 2 March 2026, at 8 p.m. in the Small Hall of Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall.
Alea iacta est! So it was at their beginning. A quarter of a century ago. They cast the dice without knowing which way it would turn. And yet the dice, propelled by some inner inertia and necessity, continued to roll for the next twenty-five years. This evening, admittedly, it was not a dice but a pair of drumsticks that were thrown. The effect, however, was no less striking.
The Croatian music scene has lost one of its strongest, freest, and most versatile artists—a flautist whose name was synonymous for decades with supreme musicianship, sound exploration, and uncompromising artistic curiosity. Dani Bošnjak was a musician of exceptional energy and presence, leaving a deep and unmistakable mark on every one of the many musical fields in which he worked.
Cantus Ensemble enters 2026 in a festive spirit, inaugurating the celebration of its landmark 25 years of artistic activity with a concert that also marks the third event of the 2025/2026 season cycle. This evening symbolically opens the Ensemble’s jubilee year, celebrating an ensemble that, over a quarter of a century, has grown into one of the central protagonists of the contemporary music scene.
