This idea will be an integral part of thinking around, and consequently, creating the program of the new edition. It is the tradition of Music Biennale Zagreb to break with tradition. In the following year, the goal is to explore complex opposites through creativity, collaboration and gatherings, that after any kind of disruption re define our positions, and the course and direction of movement.
The new edition of Music Biennale Zagreb will be run for the first time by as many as three new artistic directors and under the management of the newly-appointed executive director. So, a lot of new blood coursing through the veins of our festival.
As the recipient of the award for young composers, he will have the opportunity to compose a new piece premiered by the Cantus Ensemble as part of the MBZ This public event, which includes a press conference and a Sunday concert, has a two-fold purpose. On the one hand, it serves as our internal rehearsal β to test out ideas before the main edition, and on the other, to warm up and create excitement around the upcoming festival.
We want the audience to start thinking about the central theme β of Broken Relationships. How does this topic relate to music, the festival, and Zagreb? We also want to show that we are open to all kinds of cooperations: with local and regional cultural collectives, tourism partners and other international festivals.
Although the theme of the festival is Broken Relationships, we are actually building new and strengthening existing ones , said Fanny Martin. As the new artistic leadership was elected in , the programming concept for the edition is jointly created by composers Ivan Josip Skender, Davor Vincze and Tomislav Oliver. All three were involved in the festival in previous years, but in different capacities and perspectives. For example β artists who left their native countries to create in a new environment, art that breaks with tradition, cities that have broken the connection with their architecture, bonds between countries that have been violently severed, and along with them artistic collaborations Returning to these works can be a deeply intimate process, like the kintsugi art of repairing broken pottery with gold.
