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HAMMER PIANO FESTIVAL 2022

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October 6,
8 p.m

Francesco
Libetta

piano (Italy)

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October 7,
8 p.m
MIRKO
 TOPALSKI

composer (Serbia)

ANDRIJA
MAMUTOVIĆ

piano (Serbia)

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160 Years of the Birth of Claude Debussy and 150 Years of the Birth of Alexander Scriabin

October 8,
8 p.m
SANJA
BIZJAK

piano (Serbia/France)

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October 9,
8 p.m
RITA
KINKA

piano (Serbia)

TAJJ

String Quartet, (Serbia)

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Johannes Brahms

Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34

Allegro non troppo
Andante, un poco adagio
Scherzo: Allegro
Finale: Poco sostenuto – Allegro non troppo – Presto, non troppo

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Frédéric Chopin
Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11 (transcription for piano quintet)
Allegro maestoso
Romanze – Larghetto
Rondo – Vivace

RITA

KINKA

piano (Serbia)
BIOGRAPHY

Photo by Srđan Doroški

TAJJ

string quartet (Serbia)
BIOGRAPHY

RITA KINKA BIOGRAPHY

Until today, Rita Kinka has given more than 800 recitals and performed with many renowned orchestras in almost all European countries, as well as in the USA, Taiwan, Japan, Israel, Canada and Australia. In addition to her career as a pianist, she is also involved in pedagogical work. Rita Kinka is a full professor for piano as a major subject at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad. She has received a number of Yugoslav awards and prizes, and rewards at international piano competitions in Senigallia (1979), Vercelli (Viotti, 1981), Belgrade (Jeunesses Musicales Competition, 1983), Zwickau (Schumann, 1985), Sydney (1985), Munich (ARD, 1987), Bordeaux (Golden medal, 1988), Washington (1990), Brussels (Queen Elisabeth, 1991) and Orleans (20 th Century Piano Music, 1996).
Rita Kinka was the first winner of the European Parliament Prix Femmes d`Europe reward for the best European female interpreter of classical music, which was awarded to her in Brussels in June 1991. She is also the laureate of the February Prize of the City of Novi Sad for the year 2002. Rita Kinka made recordings for radio and television centres in several countries (Serbia, Macedonia, Slovenia, Croatia, Italy, Austria, Germany, Belgium, France, Russia, Estonia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, England, Greece, Spain, Israel, Canada, USA, Australia and Taiwan). She recorded three CDs released by the Digital Media Production (Brussels) and PGP RTS, and one LP issue before that.
She studied at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad (Prof. E. Timakin and A. Valdma) and completed her master studies at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade (Prof. D. Trbojević) and Academy of Arts in Novi Sad (A. Valdma). Rita Kinka continued her master studies in New York (Juilliard School of Music, class of György Sándor) thanks to the scholarship of Gina Bachauer Foundation, which she won at the international Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels in 1987 as the “most promising young artist”. Throughout her entire career, Rita Kinka has been “moving” passionately and with love, but also with gradually acquired comprehensive interpreting experience, a unique style of playing, and with full sensitivity and suggestivity through selected pieces of the most demanding piano repertoire.

RITA KINKA BIOGRAPHY

Her latest recital project dates back to December 2016 in the cycle titled Guest Editor/Artist of the Centre for Music of the Kolarac Endowment in Belgrade within which she connected the works of Bach, Brahms and Chopin using a specific concept of programme shaping. After that, she was awarded the Performer of the Year prize of the Musica Classica Magazine. She was also the President of the Artistic Council of the Novi Sad 2021 Project for the European Capital of Culture.

TAJJ STRING QUARTET

The ensemble was formed in Novi Sad, in 1997. Since its founding, it has been performing in an unchanged set up: Aleksandra Krčmar Ćulibrk (1 st violin), Jovanka Mazalica (2 nd violin), Jelena Filipović (viola) and Timea Kalmar (cello). Originating from the same string, namely quartet school, the artists gained invaluable experience over time, gradually finding their own interpretive expression. In addition to dedicated individual work, they have also studied with prominent artists at numerous master classes (members of the Amadeus, Alban Berg, Bartók, Medici, Janacek, Smetana string quartets and other distinguished musicians). They completed master studies of chamber music at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade in the class of Prof. Ladislav Mezei.The members of the TAJJ String Quartet are currently the final year students of doctoral studies at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad.
Quartet are currently the final year students of doctoral studies at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, in the class of Professor Istvan Varga (Budapest), where they exclusively study music of the 20 th and 21 st century. The knowledge and experience they have gathered in the field of chamber music they currently transfer to their students at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, where they are professors at the Department of Chamber Music, while Jovanka Mazalica holds the position of the second violins leader in the Serbian National Theatre Opera Orchestra. Over the past two decades, TAJJ has performed hundreds of times at concerts and festivals at home and abroad (from Croatia and Italy, through France, Germany and The Netherlands, to Scandinavian countries), and has also been a guest ensemble of several international competitions.
It also gets included in larger chamber formations and collaborates with great pleasure with most diverse soloists. TAJJ often and gladly steps out of the classical repertoire for string quartet, performing with great success the works of contemporary authors, many of whom, such as Jasmina Mitrušić, Dorotea Vejnović, Aleksandra Stepanović and, primarily Aleksandra Vrebalov, dedicated their works to this ensemble. The quartet has so far recorded five CDs. Thanks to a high level of professional and artistic work that has lasted over two decades, the TAJJ String Quartet is now one of the leading chamber ensembles in the region, showing from the beginning the tendency to subordinate individual characteristics to the common ideal of the uniqueness and assimilation of quartet sound.