The final concert of the International Festival "Gifts of Christmas" at the Co-Cathedral of St. Peter in Bar will be held on January 15th at 19 p.m. by the Women's Ensemble "Winter", and in addition to them, the audience will also be presented with a special guest of the festival, an organist from Norway. Andrei Mirgorodsky, who accepted the invitation to participate in the festival and perform in Montenegro for the first time with great interest, the statement said.
The concert will be held at 19 p.m., and will feature a special program of organ and choral spiritual music, the announcement says. Varvara Lojko in front of the ensemble “Zima”. The accompanist is Nikita Loyko, and the choirmasters Polina Krišenj i Nina Baženova.
"The concert program is designed as a musical journey through different eras of sacred music - from the austerity of Baroque prayer, through the lyricism and depth of Romanticism, to contemporary musical language. Works of the French and German tradition, as well as organ music by European composers, are connected by a common spiritual line and the space of the co-cathedral, which gives this concert a special sonic and symbolic power," the announcement states.
Over the past weeks, the "Christmas Gifts" festival, now in its third edition, has brought together numerous performers and audiences through a variety of concert programs of spiritual and classical music.
"The festival included several musical evenings of different character and composition, from chamber ensembles to choirs. Among the notable performances were the concerts of the piano duo Emerald and the ensemble Tri Arcus, as well as other programs that brought the audience a festive, warm and collected atmosphere of Christmas time," Lojko points out, adding that the final concert in the Co-Cathedral of St. Peter represents the natural culmination of the festival - quiet, solemn and focused on the essence of spiritual music.
The festival is organized by the NGO Zima, with the support of the Municipality of Bar and the Archdiocese of Bar, with the desire to open a space for the encounter of music, silence and togetherness during Christmas and the beginning of the New Year, the statement states.
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