Grand Opening
Croatian Radio-Television Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Ivan Hut
Piano: Lovre Marušić
C. Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre
B. Papandopulo: Concerto No. 3 for piano and orchestra
F. Liszt: Les préludes
In a traditional manner, Musical Evenings at St Donatus will be opened under the open sky above the Roman Forum. The Symphony Orchestra of the Croatian Radio-Television will be conducted by maestro Ivan Hut, a distinguished conductor of a younger generation, who graduated and obtained an MA in Rotterdam. Among others, Ivan Hut has conducted the Sinfonia Rotterdam orchestra, Symphony Orchestra of Guanajuato University, the Zagreb Philharmonic, as well as Zadar and Varaždin Chamber Orchestras. Since 2020 he has been conductor of Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra. The soloist role in Papandopulo’s Concerto for piano and orchestra will be performed by Lovre Marušić, a young pianist of an impressive biography, who has studied in Moscow, Zagreb and Weimar. He has received a number of awards at renowned pianist competitions. He works as assistant at the Music Academy of the University of Zagreb.