Thanks to the excellent cooperation so far, Alen Kopunović Legetin will open the third international festival: "The Organ of St. Anastasia". He will hold the concert on the day of the consecration of the Cathedral of St. Anastasia on 27. 5. 2026. after the solemn evening mass, which he will also animate. At this concert, he will be joined by guests, excellent Croatian artists. They are:

Marija Ticl, soprano

Ana Ticl- Bušić, soprano

Kristijan Kostić, tenor

Antonio Bogojević, baritone

Dario Teskera, trumpet

Krešimir Fabijanić, trumpet

Vedran Kocelj, trumpet

Borna Šercar, timpani

 Program of the concert – Frisina, Bach, Telemann, Handel,

Croatian folk songs

ALEN KOPUNOVIĆ LEGETIN, ORGAN

Alen Kopunović Legeta received his primary and secondary music education in Subotica (he graduated from the theory and piano departments), and graduated in 1997 from the Zagreb Academy of Music, in the class of Prof. Ljerka Očić. During his studies, he was the permanent organist of the Boys' Seminary Church in Šalata and the organist of the Church of St. Mark in the Upper Town in Zagreb. During his studies, he was awarded the Rector's Award of the University of Zagreb. In the academic year 1998/1999, he studied at the famous Mozarteum University in Salzburg, in the class of Prof. Elisabeth Ullmann, and in 2004/2005 at the Pontifical Institute for Church Music in Rome, majoring in liturgical music, with Maestro Valentin Miserachs, and organ with Maestro Fr. Theo Flury. From 1999 to 2016 he worked as an organist and choirmaster at the Church of St. Lawrence in Požega, pontifical choirmaster and organist at the cathedral, artistic director of the Požega Organ Evenings and conductor of the HKUD Vijenac Požega. From February 2017 to September 2020 he was organist and choirmaster at the parish of Blagovijesti – Naveztenja Gospodinova in Zagreb. He is the organist and choirmaster at the parish of St. Maximilian Kolbe in Bijenik in Zagreb.

He often performs as a soloist or with orchestras (Zadar Chamber Orchestra and Croatian Army Orchestra). He has participated in numerous festivals: Zagreb Summer Festival, Musical Evenings in St. Donatus, Rab Evenings, Varaždin Baroque Evenings, Požega Organ Evenings, Osor Musical Evenings, Makarska Cultural Summer, St. Mark's Festival, concert series Organ Heferer, Ars Organi Sisciae, Organum Histriae. He also performs as an accompanist and chamber musician with instrumentalists and vocal soloists, and has a successful collaboration with the male klapa Stine and Leggero, for which he arranges and composes. He also composes liturgical and spiritual music (masses, motets, psalms).

He is the artistic director of the vocal-instrumental ensemble Capella Lignum of the Festival Ensemble of the Sancta Barbara Wooden Chapel Festival. He is a member of the Fiat lux trio with Josipa Lončar, soprano, and Dario Tesker, trumpeter. He has been a member of the jury of county and national organ competitions. In 1998, he was awarded the Antuš Award in Subotica for promoting the culture of the Bačka Croats. In 2010, he was presented with the Annual Award of the City of Požega for his contribution to musical culture, and in 2013, the charter of the Oratorio Society of the Church of St. Mark from Zagreb, which declared him an honorary member. His solo album Portrait of the Queen was released in 2011 by the record company Croatia Records. In 2020, the recording of the Croatian Musical Baroque was released by the Aulos publishing house, a recording of a concert from the Varaždin Baroque Evenings where he performed as a harpsichordist and organist with our celebrated prima donna and artist Dunja Vejzović.

A new solo album called Cantantibus Organis, which he recorded on the excellent organ of the Požega Cathedral of St. Teresa of Avila, was released in 2023 under the Croatia Records label. In 2024, he released two albums on Nota Bene Records, the first with the male klapa "Leggero" which also contains his original compositions for klapa and organ, and the second album entitled "Magnificat" was recorded with a quartet of male voices, namely Croatian Marian compositions throughout the liturgical year. He is a member of the Croatian Society of Musicians. In 2024, a record was released on Nota Bene Records, entitled Magnificat anima mea with Marian compositions throughout the liturgical year, performed by the male quartet "ADORE", where he performed as organist and artistic director.

MARIJA TICL, SOPRANO

Marija Ticl (Požega, 1997) is a Croatian soprano and music pedagogue. She began her musical journey at the Požega Music School and continued it in Pula and Graz. She graduated in music pedagogy in 2022 and solo singing in 2023 at the Music Academy in Pula in the class of Marija Kuhar Šoš. In 2025, she completed her graduate studies in singing at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, in the class of Mardi Byers. During her studies in Graz, she was a scholarship holder of the Steiermärkische Sparkasse bank and the Graz Opera. She has performed in various chamber ensembles and at art festivals in Croatia and abroad: Dubrovnik Summer Festival, Wooden Chapel Festival, Ars Organi Sisciae International Organ Festival, Passion Heritage, Ljubljana Festival (Slovenia), Chopin PianoFEST (Kosovo), Vox Baroque, Albania Guitar Fest (Albania), Belgrade Music Festival (Serbia), Fažana Sunsets, Organ Evenings and others.

She has participated in numerous singing competitions and won first and special prizes: International Music Competition Caneres (Vienna), International Singing Competition Stojan Stojanov Gančev (Zagreb – special prize of the Croatian Chamber Orchestra), Sirmium Music Fest (Srijemska Mitrovica – Laureate), International Singing Competition Lav Mirski (Osijek, 2021 and 2022 – special prize of the Osijek-Baranja County), International Music Competition Glasbena čipka (Idrija, Slovenia), Danubia Talents Liszt (Budapest). As a student, she performed in several opera and vocal-instrumental projects:J. Rutter: Magnificat (MAPU, 2018), W. A. ​​Mozart: Coronation Mass in C major, KV 317 (MAPU, 2018), W. A. ​​Mozart: Requiem, KV 626 (MAPU, 2019), J. Haydn: La Canterina – role of Don Ettore (MAPU, 2019), A. Vivaldi: Gloria, RV 589 (MAPU, 2019), G. B. Pergolesi: La serva padrona – Serpina (MAPU, 2022), W. A. ​​Mozart: The Magic Flute – role of Pamina (KUG, 2023), A. Dvořák: Rusalka – First Fairy (HNK Zagreb, 2025), G. Verdi: La traviata – Annina (Kassematten Graz, 2025, with Thomas Hampson, Xabier Anduag and Nicole Chevalier.

Since September 2025, he has been working as a choirmaster Cathedral Choir in Požega and works as a music teacher at the Catholic Elementary School in Požega.

ANA TICL BUŠIĆ, SOPRANO

Received her primary and secondary music education in Požega and studied singing with Prof. Darija Hreljanović. In 2013, she graduated from the Zagreb Academy of Music in the class of Prof. Snježana Bujanović-Stanislav. She premiered the role of Angel in the oratorio by Šime Marović - "Free in Truth - Blessed Alojzije Stepinac", and the role of Rožalija in the oratorio by Josip Praz - "Saint Rožalija". She performed the roles of the Witch and Marica in the play "Ivica and Marica" ​​by Tin Tonković at the Požega City Theatre. She performed as a soloist in "Requiem" by W. A. ​​Mozart, A. Vivaldi - "Gloria", G. B. Pergolesi - "Stabat Mater", M. A. Charpentier - "Te Deum". During her studies, she began collaborating with organist Josip Leko, and they regularly perform together in Croatia and abroad. In 2016, she founded the chamber ensemble Trio Espresso Energico together with flutist Lucija Zovko Čevapović and pianist Ivan Polić. She has collaborated with many well-known names on the Croatian cultural scene - P. Mašić, A. K. Legetin, E. Karamazov and others. She recorded 5 compositions on the Croatia Records label, "Selected Works of Josip Andrić". She participated in music festivals such as: Organ Heferer, Festival of St. Mark, Požega Organ Evenings, Panona Organo, Kaštela Cultural Summer, Po7art, Passion Heritage, Vis Musical Evenings, Musical Evenings in Martinščica, International Festival of Artistic Tambura Music, Organ Festival "Petar Nakić", Senj Concert Evenings, Organum - Organ Summer School and others. In the Croatia records edition, "Selected Works of Josip Andrić", she recorded 5 compositions. She participated in music festivals such as: Heferer Organ, St. Mark's Festival, Požega Organ Evenings, Panona Organo, Kaštela Cultural Summer, Po7art, Passion Heritage, Vis Music Evenings, Music Evenings in Martinščica, International Festival of Artistic Tamburitza Music, Organ Festival "Petar Nakić", Senj Concert Evenings, Organum - Organ Summer School and others. She performs as a member of choirs and as a soloist: Požega Cathedral Choir, Cantores Sancti Marci Oratorio Choir, Antiphonus Vocal Ensemble, Croatian Radio and Television Choir. She has improved her skills in master classes with eminent pedagogues and singers such as Catherine Danley, Martina Gojčeta-Silić, Stojan Stojanov Gančev. She has achieved significant results in singing competitions: first prize at the Regional Competition in Sisak (2008), and in 2012 in Herceg Novi (Montenegro) she was the winner of the category at the international competition Bruno Špiler. In the same year, she won first prize with the ART Trio at the first international competition for voice and organ Heferer, with which she performed in the Great Concert Hall of Vatroslav Lisinski.

From 2013 to 2015, she worked as a singing teacher at the Music School in Slavonski Brod, and since 2014 she has been working at the Music School in Požega, achieving notable results with her students at competitions and festivals. Since 2015, she has been leading the Mixed Choir of the Church of St. Michael the Archangel in Stražeman. Since 2021, she has been organizing and leading the children's singing competition "Golden Microphone" as part of the festival "Golden Strings of Slavonia".

KRISTIJAN KOSTIĆ, TENOR

Born in 1989, the musician received his primary and secondary music education as a guitarist in Požega, with additional training in seminars with Professor Ante Čaglj. While studying at the Faculty of Forestry in Zagreb, he continued his musical education through solo singing lessons with Professors Darija Hreljanović and Viktorija Badrov at the Blagoje Bersa Music School in Zagreb. As a tenor, he performed solo at the ZOM concert in Mozart's Vespers KV 339 under the direction of Igor Tatarević, at the New Year's Concerts cycle at the Croatian National Theatre Osijek 2022 under the direction of Mladen Tutavac, and at several concerts under the direction of Josip Prajz and with the Požega Big Band under the direction of Alan Bjelinski.

His experience in ensembles/choirs includes three years as first tenor in Klapa Pižolot under the direction of Željka Vojvoda, membership in the vocal ensemble Antiphonus under the direction of Tomislav Fačini, the Academic Choir "Palma" under the direction of Ivan Josip Skender, and the Oratorio Choir "Cantores sancti Marcii" under the direction of Matija Fortune. He is currently active as a member of the male quartet ADORE under the baton of Alen Kopunović Legetin.

In the role of artistic director, since 2017 he has led Klapa sveti Lovro from Požega, and has also led the choir Horiv, a mixed choir of the Ukrainian Studies Students' Club.

ANTONIO BOGOJEVIĆ, BARITONE

Born in 1989 in Požega. Elementary and secondary music education, musician theoretician, completed in Požega where he sang in the cathedral choir. In Zagreb, he attends singing lessons with professor Viktorija Badrov. Since 2013, he has been singing in the Stine klapa, with which he has won numerous awards at the Dalmatian klapa festival in Omiš. He also sang as an external collaborator in the HRT choir. Student of the Music Academy in Pula, major: solo singing, in the class of assistant professor of art Margareta Klobučar.

DARIO TESKERA, TRUMPET

Trumpet professor at the Academy of Music in Zagreb.

He graduated from the Academy of Music in Zagreb in 1995.

After finishing his studies, he trained at the Trompeten-Academie Werder in Bremen (Germany), where he had the opportunity to learn from top trumpeters and pedagogues: Bo Nilsson, Pierre Thibaud, Thomas Stevens, John Wallace, James Thompson. The two-year study in Bremen left a deep impact on his further playing and teaching activities.

After completing his studies in Bremen, he successfully auditioned for the solo trumpet position in the Symphony Orchestra of the Croatian Radio and Television (1998) and began teaching at the Academy of Music in Zagreb (from 1999). He has been a solo trumpeter in the Symphony Orchestra for 20 years, and has since occasionally collaborated with the same orchestra. In addition to solo performances, he also pays great attention to playing in several chamber music ensembles. He has collaborated with organist Alen Kopunović Legetin since 1999.

With Marija Perestegi (organ) as part of the Teskera-Perestegi Duo, in which he has been active for the past ten years, in addition to performances in his homeland, he has performed in Poland, Lithuania, Montenegro, Morocco, Portugal, Austria, Slovenia, the United Kingdom and Japan.

KREŠIMIR FABIJANIĆ, TRUMPET

He graduated in trumpet from the Academy of Music in Ljubljana in the class of Professor Stanko Arnold. While still a student, he performed as a soloist with the Zagreb Soloists, the Zagreb Philharmonic, and the Varaždin Chamber Orchestra. After his studies, he intensively engaged in performing early music on replicas of instruments from the 17th and 18th centuries (cornet and baroque trumpet). He perfected his baroque trumpet and interpretation of baroque music with eminent English masters C. Steele-Perkins, M. Laird, D. Staff, S. Keavy, R. Farley, and M. Bennett. He is a multiple recipient of Dartington Summer School scholarships from Great Britain and has performed with the Dartington Festival Baroque Orchestra. He regularly performs at home and abroad and collaborates with the Antiphonus ensemble, the Croatian Radio Television Choir, the Slovenian early music ensembles Harmonia Antiqua Labacensis and Musica Cubicularis, the Austrian Haydn Akademie Orchestra, the Catalan ensemble La Grande Chapelle and the Belgian ensemble Vox Luminis.

He is a soloist of the Croatian Baroque Ensemble, with which he regularly performs at domestic early music festivals (such as the Varaždin Baroque Evenings and the Korkyra Baroque Festival). He has performed at foreign festivals in France, Sweden, Finland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria, Lithuania, Italy, Spain, Argentina, Bolivia and Cuba. He has recorded for the Croatian Radio and Television. He has recorded albums with the Antifonus ensemble, the Croatian Radio and Television Choir and the La Grande Chapelle ensemble. He is a full-time trumpet professor at the Vatroslav Lisinski Music School in Zagreb.

VEDRAN KOCELJ, TRUMPET

Vedran Kocelj is one of the leading Croatian trumpeters, who is actively performing as a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician. He received his musical education at the Luka Sorkočević Art School in Dubrovnik in the class of Nina Obradović, and graduated from the Academy of Music in Ljubljana in the class of Stanko Arnold. He continued his studies at master classes with John Wallace, Bo Nilsson and Ed Carroll. He won first prize at the Young Musicians Competition in Slovenia (1999) and reached the semi-finals of the international competitions in Toulon (2000) and Maurice Andre in Paris (2006). He was a member of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra under the direction of Pierre Boulez on a European tour in 2000.

Since 1998, he has been a solo trumpeter in the Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra. He has been a member of the Cantus ensemble, specializing in contemporary music, since its founding in 2001. For many years, he collaborated with the Croatian Baroque Ensemble, and was also a member of the Croatian Brass Quintet, with whom he performed numerous times in Croatia, Italy, Switzerland and China. Since 2015, he has collaborated with pianist Krešimir Starčević, and in 2018, he founded the Trio Seraphim, together with soprano Monika Cerovčec and organist Pavle Mašić. He also demonstrates the breadth of his musical interests by playing music from different periods, which is why he is perfecting his skills on a number of related instruments such as the natural trumpet, piccolo trumpet and cornet. The range of his solo repertoire includes some of the most demanding compositions for this instrument, such as concertos by André Jolivet and Michael Haydn, Johann Sebastian Bach's 2nd Brandenburg Concerto, and Matthias Pintscher's Chute d'etoiles.

Known as a promoter of music by Croatian composers, as part of the 27th Zagreb Music Biennale, he premiered Milko Kelemen's Tromberia with the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Luca Pfaff. He was one of three soloists at the premiere of Berislav Šipuš's Second Zagreb Concert, commissioned by the Zagreb Soloists. He performed the first complete performance of Boris Papandopulo's Concertino for Trumpet, Strings and Timpani. He performed this work in concert several times, as well as Bruno Bjelinski's Serenade for Trumpet, Piano, Strings and Percussion. He recorded both works in a studio with the Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra conducted by Mladen Tarbuk. With the same orchestra, conducted by Pavle Zajcev, he recorded Igor Kuljerić's Pop Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra. All three works, along with the composition Seven Trumpets by Srđan Dedić, are on Kocel's debut album Otkrivanja, published in 2023 by the publishing house Cantus. The recording of Kuljerić's Pop concert won the Porin award for the best performance of classical music.

Vedran Kocelj has performed at almost all major music festivals in Croatia: Dubrovnik Summer Festival, Varaždin Baroque Evenings, Osor Music Evenings, Music Evenings in St. Donatus, Samobor Music Autumn and many others. In addition to regular performances with the Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, he has given solo concerts with almost all Croatian orchestras: Zagreb Philharmonic, Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra, Symphonic Wind Orchestra of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Croatia, Orchestra of the Croatian National Theatre in Split, Zagreb Soloists, Varaždin Chamber Orchestra, Croatian Baroque Ensemble, Zadar Chamber Orchestra, Split Chamber Orchestra, Cantus Ensemble and Accoustic Project. He has also played with the Slovenian Philharmonic, Chamber Orchestra from Zurich, Cappella Istropolitana and Georgian Chamber Orchestra from Ingolstadt. He has collaborated with conductors such as Nikša Bareza, Mladen Tarbuk, Tomislav Fačini, Ivan Repušić, Tonči Bilić, Ivo Lipanović, Howard Griffiths, Ariel Zuckermann and Mimi Mitchel. On several occasions he has shared the solo podium in performances of double and triple concerts with world-renowned trumpeters - Stanko Arnold, Eric Aubier, Gábor Boldozcki and Reihold Friedrich, as well as pianists Martina Filjak and Danijela Detoni.

BORNA ŠERCAR, TIMPANI

Borna Šercar (1972) is one of the most versatile Croatian artists, he graduated from the Academy of Music in percussion. His fruitful and diverse career has been marked by collaboration with many orchestras, ensembles, theaters, soloists, directors, artists of various origins, such as; the HRT Big Band, writing music for animated films, composing music for theaters (CNC Zagreb, HNK Rijeka, HNK Split, Zagreb Puppet Theater, Žar-Ptica City Theater, Tuzla National Theater, Marin Držić Theater, etc.), as a set designer he collaborates with the HNK Rijeka and HNK Split, is a permanent member of the Croatian Baroque Ensemble and Zagreb Jazz Portrait, and works part-time in the HRT Symphony Orchestra, the Zagreb Philharmonic, and the Zagreb Soloists. For more than 23 years he has collaborated and is a permanent member of the Josipa Lisac Band, and for many years he has also collaborated with Arsen Dedić and Gabi Novak, Matija Dedić. Since the fall of 2009, he has been a member of the Orient Expresto ensemble under the direction of Matej Meštrović.

During his long career, he has also worked with Michel Legrand, Miljenko Prohaska, Boško Petrović, Tereza Kesovija, Oliver and many others... His performances on musical jars – flashophone – with guitarist Ante Gela have been noted throughout Europe and South America.

He is the winner of the Status award for the most promising young musician in the field of jazz in 1999. He is also the winner of the Status award for the best jazz drummer in 2014. He is the winner of four Porin awards, the Franjo Dugan award, and the Miroslav Sedak Benčić award.

In early 2009, he founded the jazz ensemble Borna Šercar's Jazziana Croatica, which performs his original compositions inspired by Croatian classical and ethno music heritage. With Jazziana, Šercar performed throughout Croatia and abroad in its first year of existence, and its first album "A Little Book Of Notes" published by Aquarius Records was awarded the Porin in 2011. The ensemble received the Franjo Dugan Award for the best concert held at Salon Očić in 2011, where a composition by Miljenko Prohaska, which was composed especially for him, was premiered. It received the Porin again in 2013 for the composition "Melancholy" from the album "Nehaj", and in 2015 for the best jazz performance in collaboration with Ernie Watts. The last two albums ("Wagner Goes to Hollywood" and "Rise After Fall") were released in 2015 and 2018, after a successful collaboration with the LADO ensemble on the song "Klek's Witches" and the recording of the video of the same name in collaboration with Zdenko Bašić. The sixth album of original compositions inspired by Croatian legends and history "UntAmeD" will be released in April 2022.

In 2024, he performed with Jazziana Croatica at the legendary and prestigious Blue Note in Beijing. He has been painting since 2006 (12 solo exhibitions) and writing poetry (he published the collection of poems and paintings "Musical Windmills" in 2010). He is a permanent member of the HDS (Croatian Composers' Association) and the HDLU (Croatian Society of Visual Artists).

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