THE THREE DIVAS

2018-08-06 22:00, Duration 2h

Summer stage

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Monday, August 6
Summer Stage, 10 p.m.
THE THREE DIVAS 

TEREZA KESOVIJA, vocals (Croatia)
GABI NOVAK, vocals (Croatia)
RADOJKA ŠVERKO, vocals (Croatia)
ANTE GELO, guitar (Croatia)
ROBERT VRBANČIĆ, bass (Croatia)
MATIJA DEDIĆ, piano (Croatia)

Sponsor of the concert   KOKAKOLA

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TEREZA KESOVIJA, vocal artist, graduated in Flute at the Academy of Music in Zagreb, under Professor Theo Tabaka. As a singer, for more than four decades, she has appeared and has been awarded at all the major national (Yugoslavian) festivals. Audiences know her from her renditions of many songs by leading songwriters, such as Zdenko Runjić, Nikica Kalogjera, Arsen Dedić, Kemal Monteno, Đelo Jusić, Stipica Kalogjera, Andrej Baša, and others. Tereza Kesovija has built her international career at festivals ranging from Bratislava to Rio de Janeiro, through Mexico, Sopot, and Antalya. She began with her appearances in France in 1965 and collaborated with celebrities such as Serge Lama, Tino Rossi, Gilbert Becaud, and Ritta Pavone, while the highlight of her career was marked by her performance at the Paris Olympia (1988). Kesovija has twice sung at the Eurovision Song Contest – in 1966, representing the Principality of Monaco, and in 1972, as a representative of Yugoslavia. She is the holder of numerous awards, including the Vlaho Paljetak Award (1977) and the Đeki Srbljenović Award for special contribution to the Split Festival (2000). She was honored and proclaimed a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the President of the Republic of France (1999). Tereza Kesovija has released more than thirty LP records, over seventy singles, and a dozen compact-discs. 

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GABI NOVAK, vocal artist, after graduating from the School of Applied Arts in Zagreb, began her career by working for Zagreb Film as a stage designer while at the same time providing voices for various animated characters. Her unique vocal skills were noticed by Slovenian composer and conductor Bojan Adamič, who offered her a chance to perform with the Big Band in Ljubljana. Following this, she earned an engagement at the Zagreb Festival of Popular Music – later known as Zagrebfest, where she performed a song called Love or Joke in 1959. The same year, she had a duet performance with the legendary Louis Armstrong at the Bled Jazz Festival. She has frequently performed at Belgrade Spring Fest and at similar festivals in Split and Opatija. In 1964, the French record company Barkley offered her a record deal, which she turned down, not wanting to accept conditions that would require her to modify her style. Therefore, being primarily active on the Yugoslav music scene, she has always carefully chosen and sung songs for which she has had a particular fondness. Gabi Novak has won Porin Prizes for Best Female Vocal Performance (The Song Is My Life, 2003) and for her contribution to Croatian popular music (2006).

 

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RADOJKA ŠVERKO, vocal artist, had her first music experiences in school choirs, as well as with tamburitza and frula orchestras. She attended music school and studied singing. Her success at the Festival de Atlantico on the Canary Islands in 1969 opened the door to television, also earning her an exclusive contract for the Belter label from Barcelona. At that time, she recorded Alfi Kabiljo’s songs in Spanish, before getting her own show on Spanish television. Radojka Šverko experienced a career turning point in 1970, when she became a winner of the Rio de Janeiro Festival with the song The World is Mine, following it with performances at festivals in Tokyo, Seoul, Athens, Puerto Rico, Caracas, Los Angeles, and New York – where she even won over David Bowie (1969). She regularly sang at festivals across then Yugoslavia – singing the Kud Plovi Oovaj Brod song at the peak of her international career at the Split Festival (1970). Radojka Šverko has been a member of the Gubec-beg ensemble and the Grička Vještica rock opera. At the Zagreb Festival, she sang Zvonko Špišić’s Život Moj song, which she recognized as autobiographical. She has released the compact discs: Vatra i Led, Va Dihe Mora, Radujte Se, Zlatna Kolekcija, and Men Are My Best Friends.

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ANTE GELO, guitarist, composer, and arranger, completed studies in Jazz Guitar at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, where in 2001 he also enrolled in postgraduate studies at the Department for Composition and Arranging. He has performed in numerous concerts and jazz festivals in Croatia, Hungary, Serbia, Austria, Germany, France, Slovenia, Italy, and Brazil, at such notable venues as L’Olimpia (Paris), Royal Albert Hall (London), and Carnegie Hall (New York). He has collborated both with esteemed jazz musicians, such as Boško Petrović, Matija Dedić, Amira Medunjanin, Tamara Obrovac, Lee Harper, Alberto Marsico, and Gabi Novak, as well as with pop musicians, including Oliver Dragojević, Arsen Dedić, Nina Badrić, and Tereza Kesovija. Ante Gelo has written for orchestras such as the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, the Croatian Radiotelevision Symphony Orchestra, the Zagreb Soloists, the Croatian Radiotelevision Jazz Orchestra, the HGM Jazz Orchestra, and The Ljubljana Symphony Orchestra. He has won a variety of awards, most notably: several Porin Awards – for best arrangement, composition, production, etc., the Croatian Composers Society Award for Best Jazz Composition, and the Status Award, conferred by the Croatian Association of Musicians. He is active as an educator in jazz workshops.

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ROBERT VRBANČIĆ, bass guitarist, first started playing accordion at music school in Zagreb, and then, at the age of ten, double bass as well. At the same time, he began to explore the bass guitar. At the age of eighteen, he met Marko Križan, the legendary Croatian saxophonist who opened his musical horizons and directed him to private lessons with bass guitarist Lino Dević. Vrbančić has gained much of music experience in music clubs, playing with and watching many of the greatest Croatian musicians: Matija Dedić, Ante Gelo, Limo Baraković, and others. He had cooperated as a professional musician with popular performers, such as Nina Badrić, Vanna, Gibonni, Gabi Novak, Toni Cetinski, Tedi Spalato, Zoran Predin, Aki Rahimovski, Toše Proeski, Sergej Cetković, Dino Dvornik, and others. Vrbančić has been in close collaboration with Ante Gelo, with whom he works on television and studio projects, and as a member of his band has performed with Oliver Dragojević in Carnegie Hall (New York). He also performs with top world musicians, such as Jason Lindner, Anthonio Sanchez, Dimitar Božikov, and Barbara Tucker, among others. To date, Robert Vrbančić has recorded thirty albums and over one thousand songs.

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MATIJA DEDIĆ, jazz pianist and composer, comes from a music family. He completed studies at the Jazz Academy in Graz under Professor Harold Nuewirth before continuing his education under renowned artists such as John Taylor, Harold Galper, Bill Dobbins, and Barry Harris. At the end of the 90s, he founded the Matija Dedić Trio, performing his original music with double bass player Žiga Golob and drummer Krunoslav Levačić. He has performed in nearly all the countries of Europe and in the US, achieving outstanding appearances with jazz musicians and icons such as Boško Petrović, the Black Coffee Trio, the Sensitive Quartet, Darko Jurković, Alvin Queen, Martin Drew, Ron Ringwood, Mark Murphy, Patrizia Conte, David Gazarov, Gianni Basso, Miles Griffith, and Tamara Obrovac, among others. As a soloist and with other artists, Matija Dedić has recorded several albums: Octopussy, Mr. K. K., Solo/Part I, Handwriting, Tempera, The Second Look, Visiting Bruxeless, Sentiana, Life of Flowers, and Matija Playing Arsen, dedicated to his deceased father, while the album was named one of the best in Croatia. He also composes music for television and theater. He is currently studying privately with Barry Harris, with one of the greatest living jazz musicians.