23/7

2024.

Krešimir Špicer, tenor
Lovre Marušić, piano

PROGRAMME

Domenico Scarlatti
Sonata in E major, K 380   

Giulio Caccini
Amarilli, mia bella

Antonio Lotti
Pur dicesti o bocca bella

Giuseppe Giordani
Caro mio ben

Alessandro Scarlatti
Già il sole dal Gange

Robert Schumann
Arabesque in C major
, op. 18 

Franz Schubert
An Sylvia,
D 891
Meeres Stille
, D 216
In Frühling,
D 882
Abendstern,
D 806
Erlkönig,
D 328

Frédéric Chopin
Nocturne in E major
, op. 9, no. 2 

Gabriel Fauré
Three days of a day
, up. 21
Rencontre
Toujours
Adieu

Božidar Kunc
Two nocturnes for piano
, op. 32

Josip Hatze
Mother

Vatroslav Lisinski
Fisherman

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Krešimir Špicer (Slavonski Brod, 1976) graduated in singing from the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam in the Core Canne Meijer class. In 1997, he won the Dutch International Competition Vriendenkrans, organized by the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, and international success came at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 2000, where he performed the role of Odysseus in Monteverdi's opera Odysseus' Return, with the ensemble Les Arts Florissants under the direction of William Christie. Recent engagements include Mozart's Idomeneo at the Festival in Aix-en-Provence and at the Opera de Toulouse, a singing masterclass at the Paris Conservatoire and a tour with the ensemble Les Arts Florissants (Ariodante by G. F. Händel). Recent projects include, among others, the opera Boris Godunov at the Avignon Opera, a tour with Les Musiciens du Louvre in the operetta The Bat, the opera Chevalier des Roses at the Théâtre de Champs Élysée in Paris...

Lovre Marušić confirmed his international reputation by winning a silver medal and a special Robert Schumann award at the prestigious International Telekom Beethoven Piano Competition 2023 in Bonn, Germany, as well as winning a silver medal in Cleveland, USA, at the 2021 Cleveland International Piano Competition. He has won numerous important awards at prestigious piano competitions, among which the following stand out: first prize at the 20. Santa Cecilia International Competition in Porto (2018), first prize at the IMF International Competition in Paris (2018), as well as first prize, jury prize and audience award at the Isidor Bajić International Piano Competition in Novi Sad (2016). In the 2023/24 season, as a soloist and chamber musician, he will tour China, tour with the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra and maestro Daniel Raiskin, recitals and performances in Italy, Austria, Germany, Portugal, Spain and throughout Croatia. Lovre Marušić signed a general representation with the company Cristoforium Art.

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