Do 10 ao 14 de Marzo, temos a visita de:

University of Arizona

PHILIP ALEJO - Contrabaixo

Academia de música de Sarajevo

DARIO KOS - PERCUSSÓNN

DJANI SEHU - GUITARRA

ADNAN ALAGIC - GUITARRA

Conservatorio de Trento

LAURA DI PAOLO - PIANO

Recitais

11.03.2025 Auditorio

DJANI SEHU & ADNAN ALAGIC - Guitarra Dúo + Dario Kos (Percusión)

Dúo guitarra

Johann Kaspar Mertz (1806-1856)

From Nanien Trauerlieder

- Am Grabe der Geliebten

- Unruhe

- Tarantelle

Fernando Sor (1778-1839)

The L'Encourangement op. 34

- Cantabile

- Andantino

- Valse

Isaac Albeniz (1860-1909)

-Tango op. 165 no. 2

- Tango Espagnol op. 164. no. 2

Trio with Dario Kos:

Ernesto Nazareth (1863-1934)

- Brejeiro

Vojislav Ivanović (1959-)

From 3 Pieces de cafe latino

- Mediteranea

Rene Bartoli (1941-2011)

- Valse en Mi mineur

Joao Pernambuco (1883-1947)

- Brazilian dance

Traditional Dance

- Dance de Cuba

12.03.2025

Laura di Paolo, piano

LUCIANO BERIO (1925-2003) Six Encores (1965-1990):

Brin (1990)

Leaf (1990)

Wasserklavier (1965)

Erdenklavier (1969)

Luftklavier (1985)

Feuerklavier (1989)

JOHN ADAMS (1947-) China Gates (1977)

WILLIAM DUCKWORTH from The Time Curve Preludes

Book I (1977-78): (1943-2012) nn. 4,5,6,7,8,10

KYLE GANN (1955 - ) Time Does Not Exist (2000)

PHILIP GLASS (1937 - ) from Etudes For Piano, Book II: n. 11 (1994-2012)

13.03.2025

ACADEMIA DE MÚSICA DE SARAJEVO

DARIO KOS - Percusión

Midnight star-David Friedman

Blade- Benjamin Finley

Caritas- Michaell Burritt

March - Carter

Asventuras- Alexej Gerassimez

Currículums

University of Arizona

 PHILIP ALEJO - Double Bass

Dr. Philip Alejo is the Associate Professor of Music, Double Bass at the University of Arizona and Artist Faculty at the Bay View Music Festival. Previously he served as Associate Principal Bass of the Quad City Symphony and Visiting Professor of Bass at the University of Michigan. A former member of the Chicago Civic Orchestra, Philip has additionally performed with the Tucson Symphony, Arizona Opera, Ensemble Dal Niente, Flint Symphony, and Ann Arbor Symphony.

As a chamber musician, Philip collaborates regularly with harpist Claire Happel in River Town Duo. RTD has premiered many newly commissioned works by living composers, including Caroline Shaw, Stephen Andrew Taylor, and Hannah Lash. His numerous music festivals residencies include Spoleto Festival USA, Lucerne Festival, Swannanoa Chamber Music Festival, Mackinac Island Music Festival, Oaxaca Instrumenta, Aldeburgh Festival, Tucson Winter Chamber Music Festival, Pacific Music Festival, and Aspen Music Festival.

Philip teaches at the Arizona ASTA Bass Jams and the Richard Davis Bass Conference at the University of Wisconsin. He was recently named Guest Professor at the Wuhan Conservatory of Music and MusAid Teaching Artist at El Sistema, El Salvador. Philip holds degrees from Oberlin College (BA, BM), Yale University (MM), and the University of Michigan (DMA), where his principal teachers included Diana Gannett, Donald Palma, Peter Dominguez, and Thomas Sperl

Academia de música de Sarajevo

DARIO KOS - PERCUSSION

Dario Kos, born in Čakovec in 1993, completed his primary and secondary music education (Percussion Department) at the Music School in Varaždin. During that time, he collaborated with the Varaždin Symphony Orchestra and the Varaždin Chamber Orchestra, and played in several amateur ensembles.

In 2013, he continued his education at the Music Academy of the University of Sarajevo, in the Percussion Department under the guidance of Assoc. Prof. Mr. Davor Maraus, where he graduated in 2017 and obtained his master's degree in 2022. He was also engaged as a student demonstrator from 2016 to 2019.

During his studies, Dario was active in student activism as a member of the MAS Student Association and participated in various projects of the Music Academy, including the organizational team of the Sarajevo Chamber Music Festival. He also performed as a soloist and a member of numerous chamber ensembles. A jazz project initiated at the academy led to the formation of the Dario Kos Quartet, which performed at the Whitefield Jazz Festival in Montenegro.

Dario gained extensive work experience through frequent engagements and collaborations with orchestras in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the region, and abroad. He also worked in pedagogy as a leader of music workshop programs during the EDUS Winter School for children with developmental difficulties and as a drum teacher at the "Mali Mozart" private school in Sarajevo.

As a percussionist, Dario achieved significant performances with the Mostar Symphony Orchestra, the Banja Luka Symphony Orchestra, and the Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra, where he worked as a permanent member in the position of solo timpanist from 2019 untill now. He collaborated with several other orchestras and artists and performed as a drummer and percussionist at significant regional festivals and musicals.

Dario Kos participated in the arrangement preparation for percussion in the first Bosnian children's ballet "Šapat šume bosanske" by Moamer Balihodžić. He is the composer of the music for the dramatic work "Moja predstava" by Branislav Trifunović and part of the ensemble of the play "Protekcija" directed by Kokan Mladenović, where he participated as a member of the drum set trio.

He has won several awards at international competitions, including laureate titles in 2017 and 2018 at the Skopje International Competition in the solo and chamber music categories, as well as the "Grand Prix" competition as the leader of the "PAMAS" ensemble. In 2016, as a member of the quintet "Klaster," he won the first prize in the XI category at the 7th International Accordion Art Competition. He also actively participated in the Summer Academy & Festival for Marimba and Percussion 2022, led by Professor Nebojša Jovan Živković, held in Vienna.

Currently, Dario Kos is employed as an assistant in the Percussion Department at the Music Academy of the University of Sarajevo and is an active freelance member of the Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra.

DJANI SEHU - GUITARRA

Đani Šehu (n. 1980) recibió su educación primaria en su ciudad natal Sarajevo, en Bosnia y Herzegovina. Luego de la escuela superior, se trasladó a Paris, Francia para estudiar en el Ecole Normale de Musique Alfred Cortot bajo la tutela del profesor Rafael Andia.

En el 2000, Đani prosiguió sus estudios en la Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst en Viena, Austria. Allí estudió con los profesores Konrad Ragossnig y Alexander Swete, donde se graduó con especialidad como concertista del departamento de guitarra en el 2006. Prosiguió a estudiar una maestría en la misma institución, graduándose bajo la guía del profesor Alexander Swete en el 2010. Durante sus años de formación, Šehu participó en numerosos seminarios y clases magistrales con diversos artistas de reconocimiento internacional.

Como solista de la guitarra y en conciertos de música de cámara, Šehu se ha presentado a través de Bosnia y Herzegovina, en Croacia, Serbia, Eslovenia, Romania, Italia, Austria, Francia, Dinamarca, Suecia, Alemania, y USA. Ha tocado como solista con la Orquesta Filarmónica de Sarajevo (Bosnia y Herzegovina), el Tonart Simfonietta (Austria), y el Cuarto de Cuerdas Dubrovnik (Croacia).

Desde el 2006, es profesor de la Academia Musical de la Universidad de Sarajevo. Sus estudiantes han ganado reconocimiento mundial por su éxito en competencias internacionales además de sus conciertos en los países bálticos y en el extranjero. Además de su carrera activa como concertista de la guitarra, es invitado frecuente en festivales a nivel internacional, da clases magistrales sobre la guitarra y ha sido miembro de jurado en concursos de guitarras en más de una década de países. Es director del Festival Internacional de la Guitarra en Sarajevo y de la “Escuela de Verano SIGF”.

ADNAN ALAGIC - GUITARRA

Adnan Alagić (b. 1990) ) received his primary education in his hometown of Bihać, Bosnia and Herzegovina. After high school, he studied guitar with professor Alexander Swete at Music Academy of the University of Sarajevo - guitar department, and graduated in 2013. He earned his master’s degree in 2022 studying under professor Šehu Đani.

During his studies, he participates in Federal and International competitions in the categories of solo guitar and chamber music: Sarajevo International Guitar Festival 2015 - 1st prize, XVII Open Federal Competition of students - Special prize, Omiš guitar fest 2015 - 1st prize, Montenegro International Guitar Competition 2016 - 1st prize, Tremolo International Guitar Festival Skopje 2011 - 2nd prize (laureate). Throughout his education, Alagić attended several seminars and master classes with world-class professors and artists such as: Marco Tamayo, Gianpaolo Bandini, Costas Cotsiolis, Margarita Escarpa, Denis Azabagić, Alan Thomas, Ryuji Kunimatsu, Srđan Tošić, Zoran Krajišnik, Darko Karajić, Ogrizović , Ahmed Baluh, Petrit Čeku, Matthew McAllister, Tomas Offerman, Goran Krivokapić, Anton Baranov, etc.

As a soloist and chamber musician, Alagić has performed throughout Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was a member of the Sarajevo Guitar Quartet.

As a guitar teacher, he worked at the Elementary Music School "Ilidža" and the Elementary Music School "Mladen Pozajić" in Sarajevo. He was hired as a student demonstrator at the Music Academy of the University of Sarajevo in 2017, and since 2018 he has been working as an assistant at the Department of String Instruments and Guitar.

In addition to his active concert schedule, he is a guest of the "Guitar Summer School in Bihać", the "Musical Dialogue for 10" project, Music School Zenica, Music School Mostar and Music Academy of the University of Montenegro as a master class clinician and serving Summer Guitar School Competition in Bihać 2019, the Montenegro International Guitar Competition 2021, Sarajevo International Guitar Fest 2023 and the XXIV Open Federal Competition Bosnia and Hercegovina as a member of the juriy.

Conservatorio de Trento

LAURA DI PAOLO - PIANO

Laura Di Paolo was born in Roma into a family of musicians. She studied piano under her father Silvano Di Paolo and later under Pina Pitini at the Conservatorio “S. Cecilia” in Roma, where she graduated getting full marks. Besides she attended some lessons and courses with Guido Agosti, Aldo Ciccolini, Jörg Demus and Paul Badura-Skoda.

Then she obtained full marks specialization degree in chamber music with Riccardo Brengola at the Accademia Nazionale “S. Cecilia” in Roma, and in piano with Aldo Ciccolini at the Accademia Internazionale “L. Perosi” of Biella. Later she was chosen by Ciccolini as his assistant at the Accademia.

Prizewinner in the International Competitions of chamber music “Maria Canals” of Barcelona and “Vittorio Gui” of Firenze, she has given many concerts both as a soloist and in various chamber groups for several musical institutions in Italy (“Istituzione Universitaria dei Concerti di Roma”, “Ente Lirico Arena di Verona”, “Università degli Studi della Calabria”, “Fondazione Piccinni” - Bari, “Nuova Consonanza” - Roma, “Festival Musica '900” - Trento, “Società Filarmonica” - Trento, and many others), and abroad in France, Austria, Spain, Portugal and Japan. Theremore she collaborated with the Orchestra Haydn di Bolzano e Trento as orchestra pianist under the conducting of Helmut Imig, Shao-Chia Lu, Alun Francis e Gabor Otvos to whom she performed the Symphony in 3 Movements by Stravinskji.

She is always successful receiving appreciations from public and critic: “...Laura Di Paolo, whose interpretative force is receiving now regognition and appreciation, infused an intense and rigorous breath into Beethoven's great Sonatas. Gushing from a coherent and cohesive plan, her performance showed all the lyrical breath and dramatic excitement she is gifted with, in a genuine, sweet, emotive, prophetic Beethoven...” (from a review by Umberto Padroni on a Beethoven monografic recital).

Laura Di Paolo has a large repertoire from Bach to the classic and romantic composers, with a particular interest in Beethoven, Chopin and Schumann works. She likes also modern and contemporary music, and she took part in many festivals where she performed authors as I. Pizzetti, D. Sôstakovic, F. Martin, O. Messiaen, J. Cage, G. Kurtág, S. Gubajdulina, and italian composers as S. Sciarrino, C. Colazzo, C. Galante, G. Manzoni, G. Lees, A. Naso and numerous others.

At the same time Laura Di Paolo has been increasing her interests for many years.

She graduated in philosophy at the University of Trento with the tesis: “Olivier Messiaen poetry of the nature: the birds music and the aspiration towards the Divine” and now she is attending the master's degree in Philosophy and Languages of Modernity.

The join between music and philosophy is essential in Laura Di Paolo’s mind. In 2017 she took part to an international research project organized by GATM (Gruppo Analisi e Teoria Musicale di Bologna), about the relations between analysis and interpretation: she dedicated her research to Schumann and she performed Papillons op. 2. She also studied American Minimalism and Postminimalism by performing works by J.Adams, W. Duckworth, K.Gann,P. Glass and I. Marshall. Now she is working on a research project on women composers of which a record will also be released.

Laura Di Paolo has been working as a piano teacher for a long time. She has given piano courses in Malta and in Italy, where she has given courses for piano teachers of musical schools, too.

Since 1984 she has been a teacher at the Conservatorio “F. A. Bonporti” of Trento and she has given piano masterclasses Erasmus at the ESMAE (Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espetáculo) of Porto, at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Musica "Victoria Eugenia" of Granada and at the Akademia Muzyczna of Poznan. She is regularly invited to give a piano course at the Talent Summer Course in Brescia.