The Concert „Between Albania and Croatia“ was held in Tirana on 13 December 2014, in the Opera and Ballet Theatre. The Concert was organised, as a tribute to their yearlong friendship, by the Albanian horn player Ilir Kodhima and the Croatian horn player and artistic director of the Velika Gorica Brass Festival Tomislav špoljar.
Apart from Kodhima and špoljar, other performing artists were Etrita Ibrahimi (concert master TKOB), Pjeter Guralumi (cello), Ilir Hasani (piano) and the Albanian Brass Quintet.
The artists have performed pieces composed by the Albanian trumpeter and composer Isak Shehu (Albanian romantic themes and Northern Albanian traditional melodies), by the Croatian jazz composer Miljenko Prohaska, and by the American composer Eric Ewazen,
Media coverage of the event:
http://tkob.gov.al/between-croatia-and-albania-koncert-ne-holl/
http://kultplus.com/?id=6&l=5913;
http://vizionplus.al/7pa5-mes-kroacise-dhe-shqiperise-12-dhjetor-2014/;
http://tiranaxxl.com/event/albania-croatia/
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