Tea Kulaš, a soloist, is to debut a brand new piece for the organ solo at the forthcoming Cantus Ensemble concert on 17 December 2022.
It was composed by the youngest author in the program, Danijel Legin, a composer, pedagogue, also the winner of the Stjepan Šulek award, Rudolf and Margita Matz scholarship, and many other grants and commissions; an author who is also engaged in sheet music publishing.
The second Cantus Ensemble concert, SOLO-TUTTI, is to take place on Saturday, 17 December 2022, in the Small Hall of Vatroslav Lisinski, starting at 8 PM.
Conducted by Berislav Šipuš, Cantus Ensemble will deliver three compositions of Croatian authors, of which two are to be first performances, as well as two pieces by foreign authors.
Cantus Ensemble is set to perform on Monday at 8 PM with their first concert in the new Zagreb season of 2022. After the guest performance in Slatina where it opened the Milko Kelemen Days festival, this longest-running Croatian ensemble for contemporary music is to return to the Small Hall of Vatroslav Lisinski, conducted by maestro Berislav Šipuš.
As part of the Croatian Composers’ Society, Cantus Ensemble is the only Croatian contemporary music ensemble with continuity of over 20 years. Now, they have officially announced the new season during which they will perform five concerts, but host several guest appearances.
The Cantus Ensemble, conducted by the art director Berislav Šipuš, is to open the Days of Milko Kelemen at the Slatina Public University on the 6th of October 2022. It is a program that connects and contrasts the music of this master and new music hopes. The concert is set to begin at 7.30 PM, while the sopranists Barbara and Stefani Pijetlović are set to perform alongside the Cantus Ensemble.
The UPSUS association in cooperation with the S-UMAS and Cantus Junior HDS ensembles invites composers up to the age of 35 to submit their compositions to the first Festival of New Sound, which will be held in Sinj in 2023.
This summer, in the third decade of the Cantus Ensemble's work and its continuous dedication to contemporary sound, the Ensemble brings New Music to an old location. More precisely, to the archaeological site of Fulfinum Mirine near Omišalj on the island of Krk on July 20, 2022.
Even after the end of its concert season in Zagreb, Cantus Ensemble continues with performances: As part of the collaboration with the Slovenian brass quintet Slowind, on May 16 they will be guests in Ljubljana, at the festival Slowindova pomlad (Slowind's Spring).
The final concert of the Cantus Ensemble season, May 9, 2022 in Blagoje Bersa Concert Hall starting at 19:30, is also a friendly match return!
Berislav Šipuš, composer and conductor, professor at the Music Academy of the University of Zagreb and artistic director of the Cantus Ensemble, is leaving for Canada at the end of April for an artistic and pedagogical tour.
