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13. February 2023.

Dora Pejačević Festival

Beginning of March in Zagreb will be dedicated to Croatian composer Dora Pejačević, who died 100 years ago on March 5.
 
Wednesday, 1 March 2023
11 a.m.
Festival opening
Zagreb City Museum, Opatička street 20
Dora, Engraving on birch-tree bark exhibition opening
 
11:30 a.m.
Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts – Illyric Hall,  Opatička street 18
Dora Pejačević – a portrait concert
Kyra Steckeweh, piano recital
 
7:30 p.m.
Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall
Dora Pejačević in the company of great composers – gala concert
Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Marija Ramljak
Dubravka Šeparović Mušović, mezzo-soprano
Ivan Goran Kovačić Academic Choir
 
 
Thursday, 2 March 2023
1 p.m.
Academy of Music – Stančić Hall
Chamber Music Journey with Dora Pejačević
Dora Pejačević’s compositions performed by the Academy of Music students and accompanied by assays of students of musicology
 
7 p.m.
Museum of Contemporary Art – Gorgona Hall
Premiere of Documentary by Tim van Beveren  Dora – Escape into Music
 
Friday, 3 March 2023
11 a.m.
Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts – Academy Library
Dora Pejačević, past and present – discussion with Academy Member Koraljka Kos and guests
 
7:30 p.m.
Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall
Dora & Liszt
Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra
Dawid Runtz, conductor
Mia Pečnik, piano
 
 
 
Saturday, 4 March 2023
11 a.m.
Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall – Small Hall
If I were Countess Dora – children’s play and workshop
Director: Petra Radin
Zagreb Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra
 
7:30 p.m.
Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall
Saturday at LisinskiIn memoriam Dora Pejačević
Symphony orchestra of Croatian Radiotelevision
Pascal Rophe, conductor
Soloists: Martina Filjak and friends
 
 
Sunday, 5 March 2023
11 a.m.
Croatian National Theatre
Sunday classics 
Chrysanthemum for Dora
Zagreb Philharmonic string quintet and Kalamos, wind quintet