Sonja Mutić: spektrum . spektra

12.04.2025 / 20:00 – 21:30
With Sonja Mutić

Sonja Mutić (music & sound fellow 2023/24) will premiere her new piece, spektrum . spektra, at the final evening event of this year’s Music Biennale Zagreb (MBZ) edition.
Music Biennale Zagreb is the biggest Croatian festival dedicated to the adventure of contemporary music. Since its foundation in 1961, the MBZ program has been unburdened by genre limitations and accompanied by discussions, exchanges of knowledge, experimenting and games.

The event on April 12, Worlds Connect, brings together two international orchestras and a Croatian cellist: Vertixe Sonora Ensemble, a chamber ensemble connecting musicians from Galicia and Portugal, Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, one of the leading contemporary music ensembles in Asia, and Vid Veljak.

Vertixe Sonora Ensemble is a chamber ensemble connecting musicians from Galicia and Portugal. Together they create an open space for exchange, reflection and conversation about contemporary music. The members of the ensemble – sound and visual artists, jazz and classical musicians – are united by the desire to investigate new ideas through creative collaborations in a broader artistic context.

Hong Kong New Music Ensemble (HKNME) is one of the leading contemporary music ensembles in Asia, known for dynamic performances and innovative projects. Apart from concert halls, it also participates in educational programs, interdisciplinary collaborations, and research projects in cooperation with artists across the globe.

Vid Veljak started playing the cello at the age of 3, enrolled in the Academy of Music at 14, and at 23 became the leading cellist of the Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra. He is a co-founder of the NAE Collective and a member of the Synchronos Ensemble. He launched the project Resonance(s), devoted to recording works by Croatian composers for solo cello (and electronics), with the aim of promoting the music of the 20th and 21st centuries and encouraging new compositions. The project received a Porin, the Croatian music award, in 2022. He currently teaches at the Arts Academy in Split.

Program:
Angus Lee: hic / nunc, for chamber ensemble and fixed media
Sonja Mutić: spektrum . spektra, for amplified ensemble, multi-channel electronics and imaginary voices
Camilo Mendez: Disappeared Quipu[s]: Broken & Forgotten, for chamber ensemble
Pilar Miralles: done for the day***, for chamber ensemble

spektrum . spektra was co-commissioned by the 33rd MBZ and DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program.

Tvornica kulture, Šubićeva 2, Zagreb
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