TRUMPET
KREŠIMIR FABIJANIĆ was born in Zagreb. 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.