(1949) graduated in conducting under Professor Milan Horvat at “Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst” in Graz, Austria, and he graduated in violin from the Zagreb Academy of Music under Professor Milan Barić and then studied with Professor Charles Libov in the USA. Music Director of the Zagreb Chamber Orchestra “Gaudeamus” since 1978 he received the “Milka Trnina” award and “Vatroslav Lisinski” award. Zlatan Srzić is guest-conductor of the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra and the Croatian Radio Television Symphony Orchestra. He conducted in Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, France, Italy, Japan, Liechtenstein, Hungary, Slovenia, Spain and Switzerland. Since 1993, he has been conductor of the Zagreb Music Schools Orchestra and the Zagreb Chamber Youth Orchestra and performed with huge success at the Brive International Music Festival in France. Zlatan Srzić won award Jean-Fredenc Perrenoud Prize at the Vienna International Conducting Competition in 1994. Since 1997, he is lecturer and conductor of the Osaka Kyoiku University Symphony Orchestra. Since 1998, he has been chief conductor of the Kansai City Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as guest conductor of Osaka Chamber Orchestra and Nara Philharmonic Orchestra (Japan). In May 2004, he became Chief Conductor of the Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra. He recorded for Croatia Records, Suzy-CBS and KCPO Japan. He is holder of most prestigious award “Milka Trnina” for 2007.

conductor, was born in a musical family. His talent as a conductor struck when he had to direct the choral concert to honour of the president Sukarno at that time in Djakarta (Indonesia) at the age of eleven years for his suddenly ill father. In 1969, he began his piano study in the college of music Berlin with Prof. Gerhard Puchelt, composition with Prof. I Song Jun, and directing with Prof. Hans Martin Rabenstein. In 1982, he came to Nurnberg and was promoted as a conductor by the General Chief Conductor Hans Gierster. Thus, he got around to directing Nuremberg more than 400 images in the time in the opera house from 1982 to 1990. His activity as a conductor led him to Shanghai where he was from 1990 to 1995 an Honour-Guest's Conductor and Acting Chief Conductor. He directs until this day repeatedly in Shanghai numerous concerts, for example, the symphonies from Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Sibelius, Mahler, Tchaikovsky, Borodin, Korsakov, Brahms, Richard Strauss, Bruckner, etc. In 1993, he directed the world premiere of the opera "The Great Wall" in Taipei and, besides, still until 2004 the Taipei Music festival together with the Taipei symphony orchestra. From 1993 to 1995, he became a Principal Conductor Japan Metropolitan Opera and directed, among the rest, Otello, Turandot, Rigoletto, Tosca and Trovatore. With the Russian Philharmonic of orchestras, he led Asien-Konzert-Tourneen and did several CD admissions in Moscow. He gave his Italy debut in 1994 in the philharmonic concert hall of Verona with the opera Tutti in Maschera of Carlo Pedrotti. During the following years, he often appeared as a concert pianist and conductor in Italy. In addition, Noorman Widjaja directed different international song-contests and contests for piano and violin, e.g., in Guang Zhou and Peking. Also in Europe, he has already directed many important philharmonic orchestras, among the rest, in Berlin, Dresden, Hannover, Wiesbaden, Oldenburg, Bremen, Nuremberg, Moscow and Verona. In Asia, he was active in Peking, Shanghai, Yokohama, Tokyo, Takamatzu, Hayama, Nihama, Guang Zhou, Taipei, and Hong Kong. Since 2002, he is active Principal Conductor of the Seto Philharmonic Orchestra and as a concert pianist in Asia and Europe. High-carat conductors and soloists as for example Hirujuki Iwaki, Andre Pisarev, Anastasia Ceborateva count to his guests, etc. He co-operates for many years with the actor Karlheinz Böhm and his organisation “people for people". From 2010, he becomes Principal Guest Conductor of Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra.

conductor & clarinetist is co-founder and Music Director of the Bravo! Vancouver. He has performed as a solo clarinetist and with orchestras in the U.S. and Europe with such diverse groups as the Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy, the Heidelberg Opera Orchestra, North Carolina Symphony, Lansing Symphony, Greensboro Symphony, St. Stephen’s Chamber Orchestra, Ciompi string Quartet. From 1989-1991 he was a solo artist in the prestigious North Carolina Visiting Artist program. He founded the American Music Festival in North Carolina and was as Artistic Director until 1993. He has performed on numerous commercial recordings including Wynton Marsalis’s Grammy-nominated album, Carnival. Dr. Kissinger is also the founder and Artistic Director of the Vancouver Wine & Jazz Festival, and has produced the Festival since its premier in 1998. It has attracted more than 80,000 jazz, wine and art aficionados from 14 states and Canada and has featured such internationally acclaimed jazz artists as Jose Feliciano, David Sanborn, Poncho Sanchez, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Beausoleil, The Temptations, Bo Diddley, Arturo Sandoval, Diane Schuur, Chick Corea, Chuck Mangione, The 5th Dimension, Blind Boys of Alabama, The Louis Armstrong Society Jazz Band, Regina Center and many others. Michael earned the Doctorate of Musical Arts degree (DMA) from the Eastman School of Music, and holds graduate and undergraduate music degrees from Michigan State University and the University of North Carolina. He has worked with numerous conductors including David Effron (Heidelberg Opera Orchestra), Donald Hunsberger (Eastman Wind Ensemble), Leon Gregorian, and Norman Leyden (Oregon Symphony). Dr. Kissinger’s choral music compositions are published by Sound Music Publications, Seattle, Washington.

was born in 1955 in Baškir Republic, Russia. Graduated the horn in 1979 at Art Academy in the city of Ufa in class of Professor M. Perifilev, and conducting and arranging in class of Professor A. Juhvidin. In 1989 he practiced in Boljšom Theatre under conductor Marko Ermler in class of opera conductors. In 1972 he was working as horn player in Baškir Republic State Theatre, and in 1979 became constant assistant of main conductor of the same Theatre in numerous opera and ballet shows such as Don Carlos, Aida, La Traviata, Madame Butterfly, Swan Lake, Giselle etc. He educated large number of excellent musicians in a school for gifted children in same town. He performed as horn player in numerous philharmonics and opera houses throughout Russia. In 1990 came to Mostar Symphony Orchestra, then he went to National Theatre Ivan Zajc in Rijeka, then to Croatian National Theatre in Split and finally to Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra. Except the engagement in Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra, he is conductor of Dubrovnik City Music, and beside that he is into education of young musicians in Art School Luka Sorkorčević. His arrangements are often heard in repertoire of numerous chamber groups of symphony orchestras and City Music.