Violin duo Krpan 29.08.2024. in the church of St. Francis

Anđelko Krpan (Zagreb, 1967) graduated in violin at the Academy of Music in Zagreb, in the class of Kristijan Petrović, and in 1995 he received his master’s degree at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna with Dora Schwarzberg. He improved at master classes with Yfrah Neaman, Igor Ozim, and at the Menuhin Music Academy in Gstaad. He performed as a soloist in Sweden, Austria, Italy, Russia, and Ukraine. He was a member of the Vienna Chamber Philharmonic (1990–93), then a member of the Zagreb Soloists (1993–97), concertmaster of the Zagreb Soloists (1997–2002), and concertmaster of the Zagreb National Orchestra (2002–2006). Since 1995, he has been teaching violin at the Academy of Music in Zagreb. He is one of the founders and the first violinist of the Sebastian String Quartet.

He won the first prize at the Alpe-Adria International Violin Competition in Italy (1988), the HGZ Award (1989), and was a laureate of the Václav Huml International Violin Competition in Zagreb (1993). He received the Ivo Vuljević Music Youth Award for the best young musician of Croatia in 1993. In 1999, he was awarded the Order of Danica Hrvatska with the image of Marko Marulić, and in 2008 he received the Milka Trnina Award of the Croatian Society of Music Artists for exceptional artistic achievements. With the Sebastian String Quartet, pianist Nada Majnarić, and violist Marko Gener, he recorded seventeen CDs for the publishing house Croatia Records. He won the Porin discography award for the Croatian Sonata

Martin Krpan (Zagreb, 1995) graduated in violin in 2018 in the class of Leonid Sorokow at the Academy of Music in Zagreb. He studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in Leipzig in the class of Erich Höbarth. During his studies, he won a number of prizes at regional and national violin competitions for students and music students, at the Croatian Chamber Ensemble Competition, and at the international violin competitions Etude and Scale in Zagreb, Lions Grand Prix in Rijeka, Alpe Adria in Gorizia (Italy), and Rudolf Matz in Dubrovnik.

In 2015, he won 3rd prize at the Croatian national Papandopulo competition in the chamber ensemble category, and for this achievement he was awarded the Dean’s Award. A year later, at the same competition, he won 2nd prize in the violin category. In 2016, he was the concertmaster of the international orchestra Euphony.

He attended violin courses in Grožnjan (A. Krpan and S. Milenković), in Opatija (M. Sorokowa, L. Sorokow), at the Strings International Music Festival in Bryn Mawr (Philadelphia, USA), at the International Summer Academy in Semmering, Austria (Dora Schwarzberg, Anna Dzialak Savitska), and chamber music in Weikersheim (Belcea Quartet).

In the 2016–17 season, he performed Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni as concertmaster of the Leipzig Academy Orchestra, and in the following season, as concertmaster of the same orchestra, he performed at the Leipzig Gewandhaus, playing works by Blacher, Reinecke, and Tchaikovsky.

Since 2018, he has been working as the first violinist of the Zagreb Quartet, and since 2022, as an assistant professor of chamber music at the Music Academy of the University of Zagreb.