Events

MLADEN TARBUK, conductor 

 

Programme: 

Mladen Tarbuk: Trip around Austria

Mladen Tarbuk: Prelude, Aria and Fugue

Mladen Tarbuk: Sebastian Sleeping

Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 3 in D major, D. 200

 

 

If there is a person who has written the golden pages of the recent history of Croatian music and deserved to be celebrated, then it is undeniably the prominent composer, conductor and music writer Mladen Tarbuk! With the anniversary concert in the Saturday at Lisinski concert cycle, we celebrate maestro Tarbuk’s sixtieth birthday. He is one of the few Croatian artists who has long enjoyed an equally great reputation in the "microcosm" of Croatian culture and music and in the music circles of the "big world"! An intellectual, an erudite of broad horizons, Mladen Tarbuk has left deep traces in almost all areas of Croatian musical life.  As a composer, he has created numerous excellent works, some of which can already be included in the anthology of Croatian music of the 20th and 21st centuries, such as Martyre d'un jongleur, ballet A Streetcar Named Desire, Symphony or Zildjian Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra. His works have been featured in many prestigious contemporary music festivals (Europamusicale München, Musicora and Le Temps de soufflé Paris, Trieste Prima, The ISCM World Music Days in Manchester, World Saxophone Congress in Glasgow, Musikprotokoll, Hörrohr and Erasmus in Graz, Moscow Autumn Festival, Music Biennale Zagreb) and recorded on a number of albums. As a conductor, he gained an international reputation as a permanent guest conductor of the German Opera on the Rhine in Düsseldorf (2004-2009) and as a guest conductor in numerous opera houses and concert halls, in collaboration with many eminent ensembles and opera houses (North and South America, Europe). Tarbuk's merits in the organization of musical life are enormous: as Director of the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, as well as of the Dubrovnik Summer Festival, he intensified the programme and strengthened international cooperation, giving Croatian repertoire a well-deserved place. He has founded the Symphonic Wind Orchestra of the Croatian Armed Forces, recorded thousands of minutes of Croatian music with the Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra and put on brilliant operatic productions with the youngest professional ensemble, the one of the Music Academy of the University of Zagreb, within the Saturday at Lisinski cycle. He has left a strong mark on Croatian music with his musicological work and research on valuable works of Croatian symphonic and operatic heritage, which he redacts, edits, prepares for publication and, if necessary, reconstructs. His ballet A Streetcar Named Desire opened the 2005 World Music Days in Zagreb.