Program 2025

The exhibition is available at the Museum of Broken Relationships until 20 April 2025, during museum opening hours.

program collaboration - Museum of Broken Relationships

program collaboration - KIC – Cultural Information Centre

NAE Collective

Tomislav Oliver, live electronics
Vid Veljak, cello
Filip Merčep, percussion
Branimir Norac, clarinet
Boy van Ooijen, technical support and live electronics
Goran Nježić, visuals

SNOP

Monika Milas, scenography
Vanja Magić, scenography
Josip Kornet, DJ set
Kristian Bagarić varboska, live electronics

program collaboration - SNOP

co-production - MBZ, Festival of New Sound Sinj and KotorArt International Festival,
supported by the EFFEA residency program

Borut Šeparović, artistic director of MONTAЖ$TROJ

program collaboration - MONTAЖ$TROJ

program collaboration - HNK Zagreb

program collaboration - Kàko magazine

Rafał Ryterski: The Most Familiar Stranger* 
Alessandro Giaquinto, choreographer
                                                                                                
Ivan Končić: Flicker Out*
Pett Clausen-Knight, choreographer

Veronika Reutz Drobnić: Still I Rise*
Takuya Sumitomo, choreographer

Ivan Josip Skender, conductor
Orchestra of the Opera Ensemble of the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb

co-production - MBZ and HNK Zagreb
*premiere – commissioned by the 33rd MBZ and HNK Zagreb, through international open calls for composers and choreographers

supported by the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Croatia

Aïsha Devi, voice and live electronics

Monuments, audiovisual performance
N/OBE, composer and live electronics
Vladimir Crvenković, visual identity
Ivan Lušičić Liik, visuals

Meka Drina, DJ set
Anavi, DJ set

program collaboration - ZEZ – Institute for Experimental Sound

supported by the Swiss Arts Council – Pro Helvetia

Tine Surel Lange, composer and multimedia artist

The installation is available for viewing until 12 April 2025, during the Student Centre opening hours.

supported by the Embassy of the Kingdom of Norway in Croatia, Norwegian Audio and Visual Fond, Norwegian Composers’ Fund, and Office for Contemporary Art Norway
 

Øivind Torvund: Yes and No*, for flute, clarinet, piano, cello and live electronics
Raven Chacon: Round, for five performers and turntable
Sami Klemola: Peak, for bass, clarinet, piano, cello and live electronics
Laura Naukkarinen: For Buchla, for flute, clarinet, synth, cello and oscillator
Lovro Stipčević: Kaamos**, for flute, clarinet, piano, cello and electronics
Antti Auvinen: Warp My Simone, for bass flute, bass clarinet, two to four singers and two samplers/keyboards 

*premiere
**premiere - commissioned by the 33rd MBZ, the work was created at the residency in Helsinki in collaboration with defunensemble

with: Mauro Lanza and Andrea Valle, composers
moderated by: Karolina Rugle, musicologist      

The conversation will take place in English.

Schallfeld Ensemble

Mauro Lanza i Andrea Valle: Systema Naturae

• Regnum animale, for violin, viola, cello and electromechanical devices        
• Regnum vegetabile, for flute, oboe, clarinet, violin, viola, cello and electromechanical devices     
• Regnum lapideum, for flute, saxophone, percussion, piano, guitar, viola, cello and electromechanical devices
• Fossilia, for flute, oboe, clarinet, saxophone, percussion, piano, guitar, violin, viola, cello and electromechanical devices

supported by the Austrian Cultural Forum and Italian Cultural Institute

Marija Lešaja, soprano
Katarina Lamotte, organ

Ivan Božičević: The Everlasting Voices*, for soprano, organ and electronics
Daniel Godsil: transi, for soprano and electronics
Lula Romero: Umbra, for organ and electronics
Adrian Foster: Murmurations, for soprano and organ
Ante Knešaurek: Psalm 138 (139)*, za soprano and organ

*premiere – commissioned by the 33rd MBZ

Nolan Lem, artist and researcher

The installation is available for viewing until 12 April 2025, during the Oris House of Architecture opening hours.

Vid Veljak, violončelo
Filip Fak, klavir

Alejandro Frankel: expansion distortion compression*, za ozvučeno violončelo i klavir

*praizvedba

Kajana Pačko, cello
Danijel Detoni, piano

with: Liza Lim, composer
moderated by: Daryl Buckley, artistic director of ELISION ensemble

The conversation will take place in English.

ELISION Ensemble

The Green Lion Eats the Sun, for double-bell trombone
The Table of Knowledge, for double bass
Roda - The Living Circle, for trumpet
Calling the Ancestral River, for violin, saxophone, trumpet, trombone and double bass

supported by the Embassy of Australia in the Republic of Croatia and the Australian Government through Music Australia.

workshop facilitator: Francisco Uberto, composer

program collaboration - OTOK

guides: Tine Surel Lange, Hrvoje Hiršl and Nolan Lem, authors of the installations

Góska Isphording, harpsichord and electronics

Utku Asuroglu: Notes from Underground*, for harpsichord and electronics
Boris Jakopović: Circles and Rounds**, harpsichord and electronics
Daan Janssens: Nebulae***, harpsichord and electronics
Aleksandra Gryka: Yuomec, harpsichord and electronics

* premiere – commissioned by the 33^rd MBZ and Muziekcentrum De Bijloke
** premiere – commissioned by the 33^rd MBZ
*** premiere – commissioned by the Centre Henri Pousseur – Musique électronique / Musique mixte

co-production - MBZ and Muziekcentrum De Bijloke
supported by the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Croatia

with: Pierre Jodlowski, composer
moderated by: Dijana Grubor, music critic

The conversation will take place in English.

Victoria Cheah: Regarding those objects of study, for flute, violin, cello, clarinet, piano and electronics
Corie Rose Soumah: States of Intermeshing, for live electronics, violin, cello, flute, clarinet and piano
Simon Kanzler: Stereo, for violin and electronics
Yu-Shiun Mei, Ángel De La Hera, Žanete Spirka, Deniz Nurhat, Vigo Kovačević, Gaia Aloisi, Ada Dinçer and Ian Willock: compositions by MBZ Masterclass participants*

*premiere – commissioned by the 33^rd MBZ

Janka Vukmir, art historian

production and program collaboration - the Institute for Contemporary Art
supported by the Trust for Mutual Understanding, New York, the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, and the City of Zagreb Office for Culture

Ken Dewey, author of the happening
Janka Vukmir, curator

House of Extreme Music Theater:
Damir Bartol Indoš, performer
Tanja Vrvilo, performer

production and program collaboration - the Institute for Contemporary Art
supported by the Trust for Mutual Understanding, New York, the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, and the City of Zagreb Office for Culture 

Julije Knifer, painter

supported by SONIMED

MBZ & Cantus Ensemble

Lidija Horvat Dunjko, soprano
Marko Špehar, bass-baritone

Berislav Šipuš, conductor
Cantus Ensemble

Juraj Marko Žerovnik: Coalescence*, for chamber ensemble
Krešimir Seletković: Lorem Ipsum**, for bass and chamber ensemble
Milko Kelemen: Die sieben Plagen, for solo voice
Uroš Rojko: Neofonia***, for chamber ensemble
Jawher Matmati, Katharsis, for alto saxophone, accordion and cello
Ivo Malec, Miniatures pour Lewis Carroll, for chamber ensemble
Maja Bosnić, A Bit Less Death and Gore***, for chamber ensemble

program collaboration - Cantus Ensemble
*premiere – commissioned by the 33^rd MBZ from the first recipient of the Milko Kelemen Award for young composers
**premiere – commissioned by Cantus Ensemble
***premiere

scapegoat:
Joshua Hyde, saxophone
Noam Bierstone, percussion

Sara Salamon, visual concept and design

Zeynep Toraman: Where was I*, for saxophone, percussion and electronics
Joshua Hyde: sifting towards before*, for saxophone, percussion and electronics
Anthony Tan: Drip Variations*, for saxophone, percussion and electronics

*premiere

supported by the Canada Council for the Arts

SP-Tools: Machine Learning for low latency real-time performance

Creator and workshop leader: Rodrigo Constanzo, performer, composer and improviser

Marko Ševarlić, accordion

Antiphonus Ensemble
Tomislav Fačini, conductor

Tatjana Milošević Mijanović: U mome oku*, for vocal ensemble and accordion
Berislav Šipuš: Cruda Amarili, for vocal ensemble
George Lewis: Lone Coast**, for vocal ensemble and accordion

*premiere – commissioned by the 33^rd MBZ
**premiere performance in Croatia

The conversation will take place in English.

HRT Symphony Orchestra
Pascal Rophé, conductor
Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart
Maria Radutu, piano

Danijel Legin: Forgotten Memories*, for symphony orchestra
George Lewis: Your Network Is Unstable**, for symphony orchestra
Margareta Ferek-Petrić: The Orgy of Oxymorons, for piano and orchestra
Luciano Berio: Sinfonia, for 8 voices and orchestra

program collaboration with the Croatian Radiotelevision
* premiere – commissioned by the 33^rd MBZ
** premiere – commissioned by the 33^rd MBZ and Radio Österreich 1 in cooperation with ORF musikprotokoll

supported by the Austrian Cultural Forum 

Rodrigo Constanzo, percussion and electronics

program collaboration - KONTEJNER

program collaboration - the Music Youth Croatia and the Academy of Music in Zagreb

scapegoat:
Joshua Hyde, saxophone
Noam Bierstone, percussion

Pierluigi Billone: 2 Alberi, for alto saxophone and percussion
Justina Repečkaitė: Ciclo Continuo, for soprano saxophone and percussion

Mauricio Pauly: The Threshing Floor, for tenor saxophone, percussion and electronics

supported by the Canada Council for the Arts

United Instruments of Lucilin

François Sarhan, composer, director and video 
Maria Buzhor, dramaturgy, translation and subtitles
Lea Søvsø, costume design
Cédric Fischer, sound
Eric Slunecko, technical direction and lighting design

Daniel Agi, performer
Janina Ahh, performer
Marie Buzhor, performer
Julia Lwowski, performer

co-production - MBZ, Festival Musica Strasbourg, La Muse en Circuit, ECLAT Stuttgart, Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg
 

Bong-Ra
Jason Köhnen, bass guitar, vocal
Attila Kovacs, guitar
Botond Fogl, guitar

s.a.t.i.n.
Ireen Amnes, bass guitar, electronics
Ash Luk, electronics

program collaboration - ZEZ – Institute for Experimental Sound

Srđan Dedić: String quartet no. 2
Frano Đurović: Two bodies, one soul*, for string quartet
Marko Slaviček: Khrōmóphōnon V*, for string quartet
Dai Fujikura: String quartet no. 3: Aquarius

*premiere – commissioned by the 33 MBZ
 

Francisco Uberto and Goran Nježić, concept creators

Franisco Uberto, composer
Goran Nježić, visual artist

ELISION:
Joshua Hyde, saxophone
Tristram Williams, trumpet
Benjamin Marks, trombone
Alex Waite, keyboards
Daryl Buckley, electric lap steel guitar

premiere – commissioned by the 33^rd MBZ

supported by Culture Moves Europe, the City of Rijeka and Australian Government through Music Australia.
 

Angus Lee: hic / nunc*, for chamber ensemble and fixed media
Sonja Mutić: spektrum . spektra**, for amplified ensemble, multi-channel electronics and imaginary voices
Camilo Mendez: Disappeared Quipu[s]: Broken & Forgotten***, for chamber ensemble
Pilar Miralles: done for the day***, for chamber ensemble

* premiere – commissioned by the 33^rd MBZ
**premiere – commissioned by the 33^rd MBZ and DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program
***premiere – commissioned by the 33rd MBZ

supported by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, Acción Cultural Española (PICE), the Embassy of Spain in the Republic of Croatia and the German Academic Exchange Service DAAD

Nídia & Valentina
Nídia, live electronics and vocals
Valentina Magaletti, percussion

Behringer Escape Plan
Sander Notenbaert, synths
Boy van Ooijen, drums, electronics and lighting programming

program collaboration - ZEZ - Institute for Experimental Sound and MaMa Multimedia Institute

Manja Ristić, violin, electronics, sound objects and field recordings

program collaboration - KONTEJNER and MaMa - Multimedia Institute