21. 7.

2025.

Monika Leskovar, cello
Martina Filjak, piano

PROGRAMME

Blagoje Bersa : Réverie, op. 49

Dora Pejačević : Sonata in E minor for cello and piano , op. 35
II. Scherzo: Allegro

Sergei Rachmaninoff : Sonata in G minor for cello and piano , op. 19
Lento – Allegro moderato
Allegro scherzando
Andante
Allegro mosso
 

Astor Piazzolla : Le grand tango

ABOUT THE ARTIST

At the age of thirteen, Monika Leskovar became the youngest winner of the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Japan (1995). She is the winner of many international competitions, including the ARD in Munich in 2001, the Mstislav Rostropovich in Paris, the Roberto Caruana in Milan in 1999, and the Adam in New Zealand in 2003. She has given numerous concerts in Japan, Belgium, France, Germany, Denmark, Hungary, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia. She has collaborated with musicians such as Giovanni Sollima, Ivana Švarc Grenda, Boris Berezovsky, Sofia Gubaidulina, Jurij Bašmet, Julian Rachlin, Stefan Milenković, Mischa Maisky, Itamar Golan, Gidon Kremer, Mario Brunello, Patti Smith, and Janine Jansen. Since 2017, she has been an assistant professor at the Academy of Music in Zagreb. She plays a cello by Vincenzo Postiglione from 1884, which she received for use from the city of Zagreb and the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra. 

Pianist Martina Filjak came to the attention of the wider public in 2009, when she won the Beethoven Prize at the Cleveland International Competition. Before that, she was the winner of first prizes at the Viotti (2007) and Maria Canals competitions in Barcelona (2008) and was a laureate of the Busoni Competition in Bolzano. She regularly expresses her love for chamber music in performances and collaborations with such luminaries as the Szymanowski and Amaryllis quartets, Ensemble Berlin, Dmitry Sinkovsky, Radovan Vlatković, Felix Klieser, Andrej Bielow, Julian Steckel, Monika Leskovar and Eckart Runge. In Croatia, she has been awarded the Milka Trnina , Vladimir Nazor , Orlando and Judita awards, and the Order of the Croatian Weaver for achievements in music.

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