estival Paško ljeto - The Summer Festival in the Town of Pag was founded in 1999 and it has already become a tradition to have it opened by Lovro's recital. Lovro traces his origin to Pag, and the Festival originated out of his wish to help and dignify life of the town of Pag by meaningful companionship of quality through various projects. The town of Pag is a small renaissance town made of stone, a zoning unicum well known not only by the famous lace and cheese, but also by the tradition of cultural events. Pag has five churches, among which the Church of St. Fran’s is the Festival stage with wonderful acoustics. The Festival realises the various arts programme of a high level. Among the performers were Russian pianists Andrei Gavrilov and Konstantin Bogino, opera star Dunja Vejzović (Croatia), guitarists Aniello Desiderio (Italy) and Zoran Dukić (Croatia), and Petrit Çeku (Kosovo/Croatia), lutnist Edin Karamazov (BiH/Croatia), The Tschaikowsky Trio (Russia-France-Great Britain), quartets Fine Arts (USA) and Tartini (Slovenia), violinists Grigory Zhislin (Russia/ Germany), Stefan Milenkovich (Serbia/Italy)and Ilja Grubert (Nederland), cellist Monika Leskovar (Croatia), Rodoevre Percussions Copenhagen, ZUM quintet (GB) but also some young artists and numerous amateur ensembles from Pag itself. Among them, the Company which performs the traditional folk play Paška robinja (The Slave from Pag), a symbolic representation of the eternal desire of the Croatian people for freedom and independence, deserves to be mentioned. The exhibitions were: Paška čipka (The Lace from Pag, Etnographic Museum Zagreb, produced by architect Nenad Fabijanić), Svitlošnji put (The Path of Light, photographs by Mio Vesović/MO), Briju(o)ni (photographs by Damir Fabijanić) and gouache painting by the bard of Croatian visual arts, late Edo Murtić.


Festival Paško ljeto 2008,
programme

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July 31

Exhibition preview - acrylics by
Dino Trtovac, at The Duke's Castle at 9 p.m.
Maja Vučić and Scharf Club Quintet, jazz night in the atrium of The Duke's Castle at 10 p.m.
August 1
 Exhibition preview - Scale models of boats by Igor Hajdarhodžić, in the atrium of The Duke's Castle at 8 p.m.
Ilya Grubert, violin, and Krešimir Bedek, guitar
Concert in St. Fran's Church at 9 p.m.
August 2
 Lovro Pogorelić, piano
Concert in St. Marija's Church in the Old Town of Pag at 9 p.m.
Accompanied by the shooting of the documentary film Concert, directed by Filip Šovagović
August 4

The State of the Nation; the Globoid Premere Monodrama by Filip Šovagović in the atrium of The Duke's Castle
August 6
 The Meridian String Quartet, (the USA)
Concert in St. Fran's Church at 9 p.m.
August 8
 Rita Kinka, piano (Vojvodina)
Concert in St. Fran's Church at 9 p.m.
August 10
 Créme de la trompette Cappella Istropolitana, Conductor: Tomislav Fačini
Soloists: Stanko Arnold, Vedran Kocelj, Matej Richter, Krešimir Fabijanić, Marin Zokić, Dario Teskera, trumpets
Concert in the Church of Assumption (Cathedral) at 9 p.m.
August 12
 Kajana Pačko, violoncello and Dino Kalebota, piano
Concert in St. Fran's Church at 9 p.m.
August 13
 The Brahms Trio Moscow
Concert in St. Fran's Church at 9 p.m.
 
The Festival is supported by:
the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, the Zadar County, Tourist Board of the Zadar County, Municipal Authority and the Tourist Board of the Town of Pag, City Office for Education, Culture and Sport of the City of Zagreb, Medijski prostor, Premisa, TF Marketing, Croatia Airlines, Apart-Hotel Belveder, Tourist Agency Maricom, and Benikomerc from Pag.