DAYS OF EARLY MUSIC 2016

The Balkan chicks (Balkanske babe): brothers Teofilović and Bor Zuljan (Serbia, Slovenia)

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The sixth edition of the festival, which is organised in cooperation with well-established festivals Musica Cortese from Italy and Dvigrad from Croatian Istria, is here. In the previous years, the concerts filled up various art and historical scenes and have been receiving a positive response from the public and the media from the very beginning. The creator and art director of the festival is Bor Zuljan, a young guitar and lute player from Nova Gorica, who studied at the Conservatory of Geneva and currently performs and teaches both in Switzerland and Slovenia. His contacts with young musicians from all over the world as well as encounters with innovative interpretations of early music in various European festivals enabled him to outline programmes which are not out-of-date, but are in line with modern musical approaches. 

PROGRAMME   

The opening concert features two young virtuosos on sitar, Rohan Dasgupta and Deepshankar Bhattacharjee, with whom the journey begins in India. The Italian music project Musa Indiana also draws inspiration from this country and brings about an unusual combination of instruments with harpsichord player Paola Erdas, lute player Fabio Accurso and tabla player Shyamal Maitra. Experiments with unconventional mixes of old and modern instruments as well as early and contemporary music continues with the Juhart-Lazar-Drevenšek Trio. The Teofilović brothers, extraordinary Serbian vocalists and connoisseurs of Balkan folk tradition, will present a new programme in trio with Bor Zuljan inviting us on a journey across the Balkans of the 17th century. The festival will be closed in sunny Mexico of the past centuries and we will reach the final destination with the young group Son Garnacha. 

Lectures, workshops and other events will also take place alongside the festival, this year for the first time in Villa Vipolže in Brda.

Thursday, 22 September 2016
Large Hall of Kulturni dom Nova Gorica
THE ANCIENT SOUNDS OF INDIA
Rohan Dasgupta and Deepshankar Bhattacharjee, sitar (India)
Sandip Banerjee, tabla (India) 

Friday, 23 September 2016
Hall of the Franciscan Monastery of Kostanjevica, Nova Gorica
THE INDIAN MUSE (Italy, India)
Paola Erdas, harpsichord, exaquier
Fabio Accurso, lute, medieval transverse flute
Shyamal Maitra, Indian tabla  

Saturday, 24 September 2016
Villa Vipolže, Goriška Brda
THE LAZAR-DREVENŠEK-JUHART TRIO (Slovenia)
Milko Lazar, harpsichord
Luka Juhart, accordion
Matjaž Drevenšek, saxophones 

Saturday, 24 September 2016
Villa Vipolže, Goriška Brda
THE BALKAN CHICKS (Serbia, Slovenia)
Saracini's journey across the Balkans of the 17th century
Ratko Teofilović, vocalist
Radiša Teofilović, vocalist
Bor Zuljan, archlute 

Sunday, 25 September 2016
Villa Vipolže, Goriška Brda
Concert of music workshop participants led by Milko Lazar 

Sunday, 25 September 2016
Villa Vipolže, Goriška Brda
Closing concert and after-party
SON GARNACHA (Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Slovenia)
Monica Prada, jarana, vocalist
Daniel Zea, jarana, vocalist
Hernando Ibañez Prada, jarana, leona, vocalist
Erick Bongcam, jarana, requinto, vocalist
Bor Zuljan, requinto, Renaissance guitar, vocalist

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