Recital by Solists Marcus and Berbarda Fink and Anthony Spiri

In context of project: SPECTRUM OF SOUNDS

The baritone Marcos Fink (also known as Marcos Teodoro Fink) is a Slovenian classical music singer who was born into a Slovenian expatriate family in Argentina, but who has mostly lived and worked in Ljubljana. He was a member of various vocal groups in Argentina and began his soloist singing career in 1985, receiving training from a number of European singing maestros. In parallel to his musical career, he worked as a professor of agrarian zoology at the University of Buenos Aires. In 1988, as a result of his singing successes, he won a scholarship and went on to further training in London. In 1990 he made his opera debut in Salzburg; since then he has appeared on numerous European stages. His sister is Bernarda Fink Inzko, a Slovenian world renowned classical music singer and he is married to Cristina Vovk, with whom he has a daughter Cecilija.  Bernarda Fink, a mezzo-soprano, received her vocal and musical education at the Instituto Superio de Arte del Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. In 1985 she received first prize at the competition »Nuevas voces Líricas« and moved to Europe. She lives in Carinthia, Austria, and is married to the current high representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina and president of the National Council of Slovenes in Carinthia, Dr. Valentin Inzko. Bernarda Fink Inzko has sung with leading world orchestras, including the Vienna and the London Philharmonic Orchestras, Gewandhaus Leipzig, the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, the Academy for Old Music from Berlin, English Baroque Soloists, I Solisti Veneti, Les Musiciens du Louvre and Musica Antiqua Köln. She has also performed under the baton of conductors such as René Jacobs, Philippe Herreweghe, John Eliot Gardiner, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Trevor Pinnock, Neville Marriner, Marc Minkowski, Roger Norrington, Mariss Jansons, Valery Gergiev, Colin Davis and Riccardo Muti. In 2002 she was awarded the Prešeren Fun Award. She has performed in opera houses in Geneva, Prague, Montpellier, Salzburg, Barcelona, Innsbruck, Rennes, Buenos Aires, Amsterdam; she has sung in Vienna, in Tokio, Montreux, at the BBC Proms festivals, as well as in Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Carnegie Hall, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Konzerthaus in Vienna and the Sydney Opera House. She has recorded over 50 CDs with Harmonia Munda and Hyperion Records and was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category “Best Classical Vocal Performance” for vocal soloists alongside her brother Mark Fink and pianist Carmen Piazzini. Anthony Spiri is one of the most versatile and highly-regarded among today's chamber music pianists. Born in the USA, he studied in Cleveland and Boston until a grant enabled him to continue his training in Europe, obtaining his diploma in Salzburg. Among his teachers, Erika Frieser, Hans Leygraf, Rudolf Firkusny, Erik Werba and Nikaolaus Harnoncourt were the most influential. Anthony Spiri's repertoire extends from the 17th to the 21st century and includes many unusual and lesser-known compositions. Spiri has given world premieres of compositions by Sofia Gubaidulina, Rainer Bishof, York Höller, Wolfgang Rihm, and other prominent composers of our time; he has also performed with many of today's foremost singers and instrumentalists. Among his regular Lied partners have been Bernarda Fink, Edith Mathis, Peter Schreier, Marjana Lipovsek, and Angelika Kirchschlager. His chamber music partners include some of today's leading instrumentalists and ensembles: the Ensemble Wien-Berlin, Gidon Kremer, and the Hagen Quartet etc. As a soloist he has appeared with the choir of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, the Camerata Academica Salzburg, the Basel Chamber Orchestra and many others.
Programme:
Benjamin Ipavec (1829-1908): Mak žari (The Poppy Glows) (Cvetko Golar)                                                       
 V spominsko knjigo (Into the Memorial Book) (Vojeslav Mole)                                                       
 Božji volek (Ladybird) (Oton Župančič)                                                      
 Pomladni veter (Spring Wind)(Oton Župančič)
Anton Lajovic (1878-1960):
Serenada (Serenade)(Oton Župančič)                                                 
 Kaj bi le gledal (Why Should I Only Watch) (Robert Burns / Oton Župančič)                                                  
Mesec v izbi (Moon in the Chamber) (Li Tai Po / Julius Bierbaum / Oton Župančič)
Alojzij Geržinič (1915-2008):  
Jesenska pesem (Autumn Song) (Rafko Vodeb)                                                  
Mrak (Dusk) (Juan Ramón Jimenez / Rafko Vodeb)
Lucijan Marija Škerjanc (1900-1973):  
Pesem (A Song) (Pavel Karlin)                                                                     
Počitek pod goro (A Repose Beneath the Mountain)  (Li Tai Po / Otto Hauser / Ferdo Kozak)
Josip Pavčič (1870-1949):  
Dedek samonog (Grandpa Unicorn) (Oton Župančič)                                             

Ciciban-Cicifuj (Ciciban-Cicifuy) (Oton Župančič)
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Kamilo Mašek (1831-1859):
Pod oknom (Under the Window) (France Prešeren)
Josip Michl:
Pevcu (To a Poet) (France Prešeren)                       
Kam? (Where to?) (France Prešeren)                       
V noči (In the Night) (Jv. Resman)Emil Adamič (1877-1936):
Trobentice (Primroses) (Kazimir)                                                 
Uspavanka (Lullaby) (Vida Jeraj)
Josip Ipavec (1873-1921):
Pomladni počitek (A Spring Repose) (Hans Willy Märtens / Jože Humer)                                               
Divja roža in bršljan (A Wild Rose and Ivy) (Julius Rodenberg / Pavel Oblak)
Zorko Prelovec (1887-1939):
Prišla je jesenska noč (And the Autumn Night is Here) (Josip Murn Aleksandrov)
Lucijan Marija Škerjanc (1900-1973):
Vizija (A Vision) (Li Tai Po / Otto Hauser / Pavel Karlin)                                                                   
Jesenska pesem (An Autumn Song) (Li Tai Po / Otto Hauser / Ferdo Kozak)
Davorin Jenko (1835-1914):
Na tujih tleh (On the Foreign Ground) (Anton Funtek)