Friday, July 5, 9 p.m.
Plateau in front of the Military Museum
Concert of
ILIJA MARINKOVIĆ AND ZARIFA ALI-ZADE

PROGRAMME

W. A. Mozart, Sonata in E Minor, KV 304
F. Kreisler, Praeludium and Allegro
H. Wieniawski, Légende, Op.17
F. Kreisler, La Gitana
C. Saint-Saëns, Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 28

INTERMISSION

P. Sarasate, Gypsy Airs, Op.20
P. Sarasate, Romanza Andaluza, Op.22
F. Kreisler, Liebesleid und Liebesfreud
(Love's Sorrow and Love's Joy)
H. Wieniawski, Faust Fantasy

Duration: about 72 minutes

Ticket Price: 500 RSD

Ilija Marinković, a former child prodigy, started playing violin at the age of five, and when he was nine, he became the youngest student in the history of the Vienna Academy. He has won numerous world prizes: Kreisler, Sarasate, Wieniawski, Viotti, Mozart, Brahms and others. He has performed as a soloist with leading world conductors and orchestras. Marinković shared the scene with famous artists – Gil Shaham, Ivry Gitlis, Vladimir Spivakov, Yuri Bashmet, Lynn Harrell, Montserrat Caballé, Grace Bumbry, Riccardo Massi. He has performed for leading world figures such as Vladimir Putin, François Mitterrand, Wolfgang Schüssel, Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI. He plays a Carlo Antonio Testore violin from 1774.

Zarifa Ali-zade was born in Baku, Azerbaijan. She graduated from the U. Gadzibekov State Conservatory in Baku, and obtained a master's degree at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow. She has performed as a soloist and a chamber musician across Europe and has collaborated with prominent musicians such as Nemanja Radulović, Marko Josifoski, Raphael Chretien (France), Galina Boyko (Russia), Jasmina Trumbetaš, Dunja Simić and many others. She participated at almost all major domestic music festivals. Zarifa Ali-zade is a full-time professor at the Piano Department of the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad.