KOTORART TALENTS

Wednesday, July 28
Church of the Holy Spirit, 9:30 p.m.
KOTORART TALENTS
CONCERT OF THE STUDENTS OF THE VIDA MATJAN MUSIC SCHOOL, KOTOR

PROGRAM

William Gillock (1917–1993)
Stars on a Summer Night
Splashing in the Brook
Performer: Ksenija Ilić, piano, 3rd grade of the Primary Music School
Professor: Ana Mihaljević

Dušan Bogdanović (1955) 
The Old Car
Performer: Josip Belan, guitar, 5th grade of the Primary Music School
Professor: Mirela Mudreša 

Anonymous
Romance
Performer: Stefan Vuković, guitar, 5th grade of the Primary Music School
Professor: Aleksandar Bubanja

Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887–1959)
Mazurka-Chôro
Performer: Ksenija Kovačević, guitar, 5th grade of the Primary Music School
Professor: David Marton 

Edvard Grieg (1843–1907)
To Spring, from Lyric Pieces
Performer: Nikolina Stanišić, piano, 6th grade of the Primary Music School
Professor: Nataša Tomović Selimović

Francisco Tárrega (1852–1909)
Lagrima
Performer: Ivan Jurij Donski, guitar, 7th grade of the Primary Music School
Professor: Mina Milenković

Agustin Barrios Mangore (1885–1944)
El sueño de la muñequita [The Little Doll’s Dream]
Performer: Nikolas Kataros, guitar, 8th grade of the Primary Music School
Professor: Romeo Lukšić

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943)
Prelude in C-sharp minor, Op. 3, No. 2
Performer: Marija Zečević, piano, 1st grade of the Secondary Music School
Professor: Ana Mihaljević 

André Chailleux (1904–1984)
Andante et allegro
Performer: Vojislav Marković, saxophone, 1st grade of the Secondary Music School
Professor: Goran Turkalj, piano accompaniment: Lidija Molchanova

Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953)
Montagues and Capulets, from Ten Pieces for Piano, Op. 75
Performer: Mark Ivanov, piano, 1st grade of the Secondary Music School
Professor: Novak Pavličić

Gaetano Pugnani (1731–1798) / Fritz Kreisler (1875–1962)
Praeludium and Allegro 
Performer: Vjera Radulović, violin, 1st grade of the Secondary Music School
Professor: Mileva Krivokapić, piano accompaniment: Ana Mihaljević

Partner of the concert: Vida Matjan Primary and Secondary Music School in Kotor

The Vida Matjan Primary and Secondary Music School in Kotor, over its seven decades of existence, has retained the status of an institution that has inherited and perpetuates the true values of national and international musical culture, while also modernizing and improving the learning process. Current teachers and associates successfully continue the tradition of their predecessors and through their everyday work and effort contribute to the development of the 
institution, whose quality has been confirmed time and time again in appearances at national and international competitions and festivals. In addition to its primary home in a magnificent building in the Old Town of Kotor, the school operates regional branches in Risan, Radanovići, and Lastva Grbaljska. With about 450 students and 48 teachers and associates, classes are taught in the departments of Piano, Flute, Clarinet, Saxophone, Trumpet, French Horn, Violin, Cello, Guitar, Accordion, and Voice. Since 2007, the School has proudly born the name Vida Matjan, composer, pedagogue, director, and founder of the school, who acquired her musical education in her native Ljubljana and then in Belgrade. The exceptional power and versatility of musical activities encompassed in the field of music pedagogy, in which Matjan constantly aspired to innovate, made the school another home for the many children who have come through its doors. As the interest and dedication of the school’s pupils have constantly grown, so to has the number that have become professionally engaged in music after finishing the school, while countless others remain musically active as amateurs, operating as members of town and church choirs, of City Music, and beyond.