BERGHAIN INSPIRATION

Sunday, July 28
Lido Pool, Porto Montenegro, 9 p.m.
BERGHAIN INSPIRATION

NO BORDER ORCHESTRA 
PREMIL PETROVIĆ, conductor (Serbia / Germany)

Program:

Draško Adžić (1979)
B Matinee

Drinor Zymberi (1987)
Trance

Samuel Barber (1910–1981)
Adagio for Strings

Davor Branimir Vincze (1983)
Dark Room

Arvo Pärt (1935)
Fratres 

Danijel Zontar (1979)
Afterparty

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Air for Strings 

Darija Andovska (1978)
FairVent (newly commissioned piece)

Sponsor of the concert Porto Montenegro 

No Borders Orchestra is a symphony orchestra comprised of acclaimed professional musicians from the Western Balkans. Established in 2012, both in Belgrade and in Berlin, its goal has been to initiate positive social development through the power of reconciliation and creative collaboration, growing out of the desire to create a regional cross-border symphony orchestra, one delivering the highest artistic quality while calling for a new kind of communication. Across its six years of activity, the Orchestra has performed at leading festivals throughout the Balkan region, as well as at the Wiener Festwochen in Vienna, Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels, Festival d`Automne in Paris, and Operadagen in Rotterdam, in addition to performances in Marseille, Brisbane, Kvangdžu, London, Hamburg, Berlin, Athens, and Lisbon. Building on its two main foundations – music and society, the Orchestra successfully promotes musical excellence and social awareness. By seeking ways to deconstruct and transform communities, by advocating for positive social changes, towards being more inclusive, intercultural, more open and democratic than our societies currently is, the Orchestra serves as a platform for overcoming nationalism, racism, xenophobia, homophobia, and the bloody legacy of the past in the Western Balkan region and beyond. In 2018, they kicked off their annual Balkan Season, continuing to spread their music and message where ever they go.

Premil Petrović is the initiator, Chief Conductor, and Artistic Director of the No Borders Orchestra, with whom he recorded an album in 2015 for Universal Music – Deutsche Grammophon. He graduated in Conducting from the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin, under Professor Winfried Müller. In 1996, Premil founded the Cinema REX music theater in Belgrade. His repertoire includes interpretations of early music, operas and symphonies of Classicism and Romanticism, as well as premieres of contemporary music. He has also conducted premieres of operas by Isidora Žebeljan, one of the most prominent contemporary Serbian composers. Premil Petrović often conducts experimental music theaters, such as the production of Schönberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, directed by Bruce Labruce, for whose film by the same title, he recorded the second performance. In 2014, he collaborated with director Brett Bailey on the post-colonial production of Verdi’s opera Macbeth in Fabrizio Cassol’s arrangement in Capetown, which went on to be performed at some of the most important European festivals. Premil Petrović has conducted at the Vancouver and Philadelphia Operas, at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra, the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, and numerous European orchestras. He won the Hanns Eisler Prize for the interpretation of contemporary music.