16. 8.

Matej Mijalic, violin
Arsen Dalibaltayan, piano

PROGRAMME

Boris Papandopulo : Fantasy for violin and piano

Josef Suk : Love Song, Op. 7, No. 1

Helena Skljarov : Rituals - premiere

César Franck : Sonata for violin and piano in A major

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Matej Mijalić (Rijeka, 2000) began studying violin at the age of eight at the Ivan Matetić Ronjgov Music School in Rijeka. At the age of twelve, he enrolled in the program for especially gifted young musicians ( Hochbegabtenkurs ) at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, in the class of Marina Sorokowa. He began studying violin in 2017 at the Academy of Music, University of Zagreb, in the class of Leonid Sorokowa. He graduated in 2022 in the class of Orest Shourgot. During his studies, he won numerous first and absolute prizes at domestic and international competitions; among the most recent is victory at the 21st International Ferdo Livadić Competition for Young Musicians in Samobor (2024).

Arsen Dalibaltayan (2003), has won multiple awards at national and international competitions for young pianists, including first prizes at ArsNova (Trieste), Città di Gorizia , Young Virtuosi, Zlatko Grgošević, EPTA (Osijek), Jurica Murai (Varaždin) and Virtuosi per Musica di Pianoforte (Ústí nad Labem). He first performed as a soloist with an orchestra at the age of nine, performing Haydn's Piano Concerto in D major . In 2020, he performed Beethoven's Second Piano Concerto at the Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall, for which he was awarded the Rector's Award. He has also performed with the Varaždin Chamber Orchestra, the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, the WunderKammer Orchestra, and at numerous festivals in Croatia and abroad.