The global coronavirus pandemic has made it impossible for the audience to enjoy quality concerts, and for musicians to do their work and have direct contact with their audience, but this is compensated for at least to some extent by virtual concerts.
Thus, the Montenegrin Symphony Orchestra will serve classical music lovers a concert delicacy that will be able to be watched online. On Monday, December 21, starting at 19 p.m., a concert of the Montenegrin Symphony Orchestra ensemble will be held, which will be broadcast live through the platforms of the Music Center of Montenegro, i.e. on its Facebook page and YouTube channel. This institution announced that on Monday, under the direction of Ivan Josip Skender, Croatian conductor, composer and professor at the Academy of Music in Zagreb, three works will be performed: "Holberg's Suite" Op. 40 by Edvard Grieg, "Serenade for Winds, Cello and Double Bass" by Antonín Dvořák and "Concerto in E flat - Dumbarton Oaks", 8.v.38 by Igor Stravinsky.
The Montenegrin Symphony Orchestra performed for the first time on December 14, 2007 in Cetinje. At almost three hundred concerts in the country and abroad (Italy, Croatia, Russia, Turkey, France and many other countries) they performed the most important works of the symphonic genre, as well as great vocal-instrumental works such as "Symphony no. 9" by Ludwig van Beethoven and "Requiem" by Giuseppe Verdi. Among others, Monserat Kabalje, Miša Majski, Ivo Pogorelić, Ilja Gringolc, Roman Simović, Miloš Karadaglić and others performed with him.
Composer and conductor Ivan Josip Skender is a versatile musician with a wide range of activities. He enrolled in composition studies in 1997 at the Academy of Music in Zagreb in the class of Željko Brkanović, as the youngest composition student in the history of this institution, and later went on to study in Vienna. As a conductor, he collaborated with numerous Croatian and foreign ensembles, won numerous awards, and his works were performed in almost all European countries, as well as the USA, Canada and Mexico.
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