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Call for Scores: a new piece for ballet on the theme of 'Broken Relationships’ 1 December 2023The Music Biennale Zagreb (MBZ) opens its 33rd edition at the Croatian National Theatre with a new ballet. With this call for scores, MBZ and the Croatian Composers' Society (HDS) are looking for...
Festival In Focus | Music Biennale Zagreb | Croatia31 October 2019In 2021 Music Biennale Zagreb will celebrate its 60th
anniversary and the composer recently appointed to guide the programme,
Margareta Ferek-Petric, has been contemplating how to recognise it. 'Of...
Music Biennale Zagreb raises a new audience: great programs for little ones14 March 2017Being
aware of the importance of raising the audience from the youngest
age, Music Biennale Zagreb has organised a whole series of
programmes dedicated to children...
Music Biennale Zagreb choose finalists of the 5-Minute Piano Concerto Competition12 October 2016As one of many ways to
encourage and support the production of contemporary music, the Music
Biennale Zagreb embarked on a new adventure which is already
becoming a tradition – the first...
HONORIFICABILITUDINITAS: Highlights of Music Biennale Zagreb 201527 March 2015HONORIFICABILITUDINITAS, the Latin word chosen as the motto of the 28th Music Biennale Zagreb (MBZ) translates into: the state of being able to achieve and receive honour. The honour will be...
Music Biennale Zagreb launches "5-Minute Opera" competition10 June 2014It is almost a year to go before the doors of the 28th Music Biennale Zagreb (MBZ) open on 18 April 2015. The festival is now in a position to start revealing bits and pieces, more accurately it...
Music Biennale Zagreb to transform Zagreb into a centre of New Music26 March 2013Every April of odd number years, ever since 1961, Zagreb is transformed into a centre of the latest in contemporary, alternative, cutting edge culture and art, into a centre of New Music, which is...- ECSA interviews Ivo Josipovic, President of Croatia: a journey from music to politics24 September 2012Ivo Josipovic, President of Croatia, professional composer and former Director of Music Biennale Zagreb, talked to the European Composers and Songwritr Alliance (ECSA) about his background in music...
- New artistic management of the Music Biennale Zagreb25 January 2012Eight very successful festivals, more accurately since the last century’s 19th Music Biennale Zagreb (MBZ) in 1997, and all the way to our 50th anniversary MBZ in 2011, Berislav Šipuš, in his...
- Interview with Berislav Šipuš, Music Biennale Zagreb: Mirabilia Memorabilia4 April 2011Music Biennale Zagreb (MBZ), the most important contemporary music festival in the region, is celebrating its jubilee. Full fifty years have passed since the first Biennale, which some still...
- President of the Republic of Croatia patron of the Music Biennale Zagreb8 March 2011The management of the Music Biennale Zagreb (MBZ) is honored to announce that it has received a memo from the Office of the President of Croatia confirming that H.E. Ivo Josipović has accepted the...
- Music Biennale Zagreb hosts World New Music Days 201122 April 2010Having successfully hosted ISCM's World Music Days in 2005, the Music Biennale Zagreb (MBZ) has once again been chosen to host this festival, now called the World New Music Days. This way, the 2011...
- Ivo Josipovic elected President of Croatia11 January 2010Social Democrat Ivo Josipovic, a scholar, composer and the director of Music Biennale Zagreb (member of the European Festivals Association since 1997), convincingly won the presidential election in...
