Programme:
Gordon Jacob: Suite for Bassoon and String Quartet
Aldo Kumar: Istrian Suite
Lars-Erik Larsson: Concertino for Bassoon and String Orchestra, Op. 45, No. 4
Traditional, arr. Klemen Hvala: Kasapsko oro
Marko Mihevc: Concertino for Bassoon and String Quintet*
Astor Piazzolla, arr. Klemen Hvala: Oblivion
Astor Piazzolla: Escolaso for Bassoon and String Quintet

*premiere performance

After his studies in Skopje, Zoran Mitev graduated from the University of Ljubljana’s Academy of Music in 1987, then completed a specialisation in Graz. In 2010, the Senate of the Academy presented him with the Award for Important Works of Art in the field of bassoon. Since 1992, he has been solo bassoonist for the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra, and has premiered more than 40 works for solo and chamber ensembles by Slovene and foreign composers. He will be joined by the members of the Ensemble Dissonance, established Slovene musicians who believe there is no progress without deviation from norms and whose concert programmes are characterised by inventiveness, boldness and the linking of musical content from different periods, styles and genres. They will perform a suite by Gordon Jacob, an English composer with an unswerving commitment to melody; Slovene composer Aldo Kumar’s Istrian Suite,  a work inspired by Istrian folk motifs; a concertino by the stylistically eclectic Swedish composer Lars-Erik Larsson; a Macedonian folk song in an arrangement by Ensemble Dissonance founder and director Klemen Hvala; a new work by the prolific and dramatic Slovene composer Marko Mihevc; and two pieces by Argentinian tango revolutionary Astor Piazzolla.