• in 2022 we celebrated the 330th anniversary of Tartini’s birth, and also the jubilee 40th concert season of the Tartini String Quartet
• in 1728 he founded a violin school, at which violinists of various nationalities were drilled, and it thereby soon became known as La scuola delle nazioni (The School of Nations)
• towards the end of his life he researched music theory and acoustics, and recorded his findings in various tracts

Tartini String Quartet
Miran Kolbl, violin
Romeo Drucker, violin
Aleksandar Milošev, viola
Miloš Mlejnik, cello

Guest:
Monika Leskovar, cello

Programme:
M. Kogoj: Andante
W. A. Mozart: String Quartet No. 22 in B-flat major, K. 589
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F. Schubert: String Quartet in C major, D. 956

The Tartini String Quartet is today regarded as the leading such ensemble in Slovenia. The quartet started off as the String Quartet of the Slovenian Philharmonic in 1983, when the four heads of the string groups in the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra decided to try out their wealth of musical skills in a chamber setting. The concert programmes of the Tartini String Quartet gain special value through the constant focus of the members on inviting the participation of renowned Slovenian and international musicians, and in this way offering an original complement to their programme. At the same time this contributes to the continuous growth of the quartet as an adaptable chamber music performance ensemble. The fifth concert of the series marking the 40th anniversary of the quartet will feature Schubert’s String Quintet in C Major, which is undoubtedly the composer’s greatest work for chamber music. They will be joined by the young Croat cellist Monika Leskovar, who first drew attention to herself in 1995 when she became the youngest winner of the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Japan at the age of thirteen. She has performed as a soloist with many renowned orchestras, and in the 2010/2011 season she played first cello for the Munich Philharmonic. Since 2012 she has been a teacher at the Music Conservatory of Italian Switzerland in Lugano, and since 2017 an Assistant Professor at the Academy of Music in Zagreb.