Leading Belgrade musicians, pianist Vladimir Milošević and cellist Nemanja Stanković, winners of the Despot Stefan Lazarević City of Belgrade Award for 2023 for music and music theatre as members of the Cordа Piano Trio, are presenting a new concert programme in the Belgrade Philharmonic Concert Hall on 1 June, performing the music of the famous American composer Philip Glass. The concert is part of the Ninth International Conference programme ‘Minimalist Intersections’, which is being held for the first time in Belgrade and in Southeast Europe in general this year.
Through his operas, such as Einstein on the Beach, which was performed with great success in 1976 at the 10th BITEF, his collaborations with numerous artists, including Leonard Cohen and David Bowie, as well as his music for film, which includes nomination for an Oscar for the film The Hours, Philip Glass (1937) has had an extraordinary impact upon the musical and intellectual life of our time.
The concert programme includes some of Glass's most famous works, originally written or arranged for these instruments, such as excerpts from the Glassworks suite, tracks from the soundtrack to the film The Hours, The Etudes for Piano and Songs and Poems for Solo Cello.
The ‘Minimalist Intersections’ Conference, which will host about a hundred delegates from all over the world, is organized by the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SASA), the SASA Institute of Musicology, the Society for Minimalist Music, the Belgrade Festivals Centre – CEBEF and the Mokranjac Music School from Belgrade.
The conference and concert programme are supported by the City of Belgrade – Secretariat for Culture, the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation, SOKOJ (Organization of Music Authors of Serbia), Emory University from Atlanta (Georgia, USA) and the European Commission through the Erasmus+ programme.
Tickets for the concert at a price of 700 RSD are sold at the Belgrade Philharmonic box office, as well as online via the website www.bgf.rs
