April 20, 2022
With the concert “About Life, Identity & Death” on April 20 at the “Balkan” cinema, the ensemble Metamorfozis officially opened its 17th concert season, titled “Endless Poetry.” This event continued the ensemble’s tradition of presenting interesting programs to both local and international audiences.
The program featured works by Pergolesi, Gabriel Prokofiev, Airat Ishmuratov, Pēteris Vasks, Samuel Barber, and Dmitri Shostakovich. The guest performers were members of the Academic Choir “Obilić.”
Saša Mirković, the artistic director of the ensemble, commented on the performance: “This concert reflects the situation we’ve been going through in recent years—it’s a reflection on suffering and hardship, as well as a tribute to all victims, whether of war, illness, or personal struggles. It’s about the process of realization, acceptance, confrontation, and survival. It’s about making our suffering meaningful.”
The Belgrade chamber ensemble Metamorfozis was founded in 2005 at the initiative of violist and artistic director Saša Mirković, along with Tatjana Jovanović Mirković. Since its inception, the ensemble has been dedicated to performing boundary-pushing genres of art music, including new music, world music, and well-known works from the Western European musical tradition in a “new guise”—with different, fresh arrangements and stage settings that serve as a response to contemporary moments, audience tastes, and global performance practices.
In recent years, the Metamorfozis ensemble and the Saša Marčeta Foundation have established a partnership that has resulted in both concert performances and recordings for future projects.
The concerts in the 17th concert season are supported by the Ministry of Culture, Sokoj, the Saša Marčeta Foundation, and the “Balkan” cinema.