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Conductor, Baritone, Harpsichordist, Organist

Predrag Gosta

Belgrade

Serbia

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Predrag Gosta has been recognized as one of the most interesting and multi-faceted conductors of his generation. He is the artistic director of New Trinity Baroque, a widely-acclaimed and recorded period-instrument orchestra in London; the music director and chief conductor of the Gwinnett Ballet Theatre in Atlanta, USA; the artistic director and chief conductor of the New Belgrade Opera and the Makris Symphony Orchestra in Serbia; and the artistic director of the Belgrade Early Music Festival and the Belgrade Baroque Academy. He also served as the assistant conductor of the National Philharmonic in Washington DC and was a faculty member at Oxford College of Emory University in Atlanta.

Gosta was initially trained as a violinist, since the age of six, but later continued his studies in singing, harpsichord and conducting. After starting his studies at the Belgrade Music Academy, he continued his undergraduate education in voice and harpsichord at Trinity College of Music in London, where he received a full scholarship together with a full scholarship from the Leverhulme Trust. Subsequently, he finished postgraduate studies also at Trinity, after which he moved to the United States where he received three Master of Music degrees (in voice, choral and orchestral conducting) at Georgia State University in Atlanta. A recipient of a graduate assistantship and several scholarships - including the prestige Regents Opportunity Scholarship - his further studies in conducting were with Gustav Meier (USA), Jorma Panula (Finland), Colin Metters (UK), Ennio Nicotra (Italy), Alexander Polyanichko, Vladimir Ponkin and Andrei Anikhanov (Russia), Jonathan Brett (England), Dejan Savic (Serbia) and Emmanuel Siffert (Switzerland). Currently, Gosta is conducting doctoral research at the Faculty of Music of the University of Oxford and is a Junior Member of the Christ Church in Oxford. His work focuses on the English opera between 1790 and 1850.

Equally at home with the concert, opera or ballet, Predrag Gosta performed in USA, United Kingdom, Russia, Sweden, Finland, Sweden, Germany, Poland, Switzerland, Mexico, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia and Montenegro. He collaborated with artists such as sopranos Evelyn Tubb and Juilliane Baird; mezzo-soprano Vivica Genaux; contralto Marijana Mijanovic; baroque violinists Florian Deuter, Ilia Korol, John Holloway, Antoinette Lohmann and Ingrid Matthews; recorder virtuosos Marion Verbruggen, Emma Murphy and Karolina Bäter; harpsichordists Steven Devine and Ottaviano Tenerani; lutenists Anthony Rooley and Michael Fields; baroque trumpet players Justin Bland and Nathaniel Mayfield; and many others. He appeared at festivals such as the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, Boston Early Music Festival and Amherst Early Music Festival in the USA; Dartington International Summer School and Festival in the UK; Sastamala Gregoriana Festival in Finland; Korkyra Baroque Festival and Varaždin Baroque Evenings in Croatia; Budva Theatre Festival in Montenegro; and the Belgrade Early Music Festival in Serbia – to mention a few. His guest conducting engagements include renowned orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra, the Russian National Orchestra in Moscow, the St. Petersburg State Capella "Glinka", the National Philharmonic in Washington DC, and others. He has been engaged as a guest music director in opera houses in Biel and Solothurn (Switzerland), Ruse and in Burgas (Bulgaria), Lexington (KY), Lüneburg (Germany), and his native Belgrade (Serbia), performing operas such as Mozart's "Lucio Silla" and "Mitridate", Puccini's "Madama Butterfly", Handel's "Orlando" as well as Monteverdi's "L'Incoronazione di Poppea" and "L'Orfeo", for which he received the Best Opera Award from the magazine "Musica Classica" as well as the Artist of the Year Award from the Serbian Association of Musicians (UMUS).

Predrag Gosta is an active recording artist with over a dozen recordings to his credit with his period-instrument ensemble New Trinity Baroque (including a critically acclaimed CD of Purcell's opera "Dido & Aeneas"), three with the acclaimed London Symphony Orchestra (produced by the Grammy Award-winning artist Michael Fine and recorded by the Grammy Award-winning engineer Wolf-Dieter Karwatky at the Abbey Road Studios in London), and two with the Makris Symphony Orchestra. As an active educator, he regularly presents masterclasses in historical performance practice and in conducting. Gosta is a member of the Conductor's Guild, the British Harpsichord Society and the Royal College of Organists, among others. He is the President of the Makris Music Society in Washington DC (which promotes the music of composer Andreas Makris), as well as the principal editor of the UrtextEditions.com and the Mediterranean Press.

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Der serbisch-US-amerikanische Dirigent und Cembalist Predrag Gosta gilt als einer der führenden Spezialisten für Alte Musik. Aufgewachsen in Belgrad studierte er zunächst Violine, später Gesang, Cembalo und Dirigieren am Trinity College of Music in London sowie an der Georgia State University in Atlanta, USA. Weiterführende Studien in Europa und Russland führten ihn u.a. zu Gustav Meier, Colin Metters, Jorma Panula, Alexander Polyanichko und Ennio Nicotra.
Predrag Gosta ist Intendant und Generalmusikdirektor der Neuen Belgrader Oper sowie künstlerischer Leiter des Internationalen Festivals für Alte Musik Belgrad, der Belgrader Barock-Akademie sowie der Makris Symphoniker. Seine jüngsten Opernproduktionen umfassen Händels “Orlando", Monteverdis “L'Orfeo" und "L'incoronazione di Poppea" auf historischen Instrumenten für die Neue Belgrader Oper, Purcells "Dido und Aeneas” am Belgrader Nationaltheater sowie Puccinis "Madama Butterfly" an der Nationaloper Rousse (Bulgarien). Innerhalb der Spielzeit 2016/17 gastierte der erstmals als musikalischer Direktor für die Produktion von Mozarts "Lucio Silla" an der Theater-Orchester Biel-Solothurn, die von den Kritiken sehr positiv aufgenommen wurde.  Predrag Gosta ist international als Orchesterdirigent tätig und trat u.a. in den USA, Mexico, Großbritannien, Russland, Schweden, Finnland, Serbien, Kroatien, Bulgarien, Österreich und Deutschland auf. Er arbeitete mit Orchestern wie dem London Symphony Orchestra, der Staatskapelle St. Petersburg und der National Philharmonic (USA) zusammen.
Mit seinem der historischen Aufführungspraxis gewidmeten Ensemble New Trinity Baroque gab er über 300 Konzerte und spielte über ein Duzend Platten ein, darunter "Baroque Christmas", "Bachs Violinkonzerte", "Händels Arien", Carissimis Oratorien «Jonas» und «Jephte» sowie "Vivaldis Konzerte". Seine Einspielung von Henry Purcells "Dido und Aeneas" wurde vom "Early Music”-Magazin der Oxford University Press als "one of the best recordings of this opera ever made" gepriesen. Vor kurzem veröffentlichte er seine zweite CD mit dem London Symphony Orchestra mit Mussorgskys "Bilder einer Ausstellung" und Rachmaninoffs "Symphonischen Tänzen".
Predrag Gosta war als Dozent an der Oxford Universität sowie der Emory Universität tätig. Er ist gefragter Gastdozent zahlreicher Vorlesungen und Meisterkurse, publiziert Artikel in führenden Musikzeitschriften und ist Verwalter der Gesamtausgabe der Werke des griechisch-US-amerikanischen Komponisten Andreas Makris sowie künstlerischer Berater der Makris Stiftung in Washington D.C und der Makris Musikalischen Gesellschaft.

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Le chef d'orchestre et claveciniste serbo-américain Predrag Gosta est considéré comme l'un des spécialistes de la musique ancienne. Il grandit à Belgrade et étudie le violon, le chant, puis le clavecin et la direction d’orchestre au Trinity College of Music à Londres et à la Georgia State University, à Atlanta (USA). D'autres études en Europe et en Russie l'ont mené, entre autres, à travailler sous la direction de Gustav Meier, Colin Metters, Jorma Panula et Alexander Polyanichko.


Predrag Gosta est directeur général du New Belgrade Opera ainsi que directeur artistique du Festival international de musique ancienne de Belgrade, de l'Académie baroque de la même ville et du Symphoniker de Makris. Au nombre de ses récentes prestations, citons notamment "Orlando" de Händel, "L'Incoronazione di Poppea" de Monteverdi, « Dido et Aeneas » ainsi que « Madama Butterfly » de Puccini.



Il s’est produit dans plus de 300 concerts et a enregistré une douzaine de disques, dont le Noël baroque, les concertos pour violon de Bach, les « Arias » de Händel et les concertos de Vivaldi. Sa version enregistrée de « Dido et Aeneas » est jugée comme «l'un des meilleurs enregistrements de cet opéra jamais réalisés» par la revue « Early Music ». Il sort bientôt son deuxième disque avec l’Orchestre symphonique de Londres.



Pedrag Gosta a été professeur à l’Université d’Oxford et à l’Université d’Emory. Il donne également de nombreuses conférences et masterclasses et est conseiller artistique de la Fondation Makris basée à Washington D.C.

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