Saturday, August 321.00 OPENING CEREMONY

August’s Temple, Pula21.15 CARMEL A - CAPPELLA

August’s Temple, Pula

Lior Suchard is a supernatural entertainer and mentalist with an extraordinary talent for mind reading, thought influencing and telekinesis, which have earned him international acclaim. He has performed with enormous success in 42 countries around the world and appears regularly on the Israeli TV. He was a guest at Jay Leno’s and Larry King’s shows.

Sunday, August 421.00 TASTING OF ISRAELI FOOD

Forum, Pula

Monday, August 520.00 EXHIBITION from THE BEGINNING

The vocal quintet Carmel A - Cappella is a five female singers’ ensemble who specializes in a cappella polyphonic music. The unique voices and the virtuosic contemporary arrangements make the ensemble a rare phenomenon in the Israeli music scene.The group’s repertoire includes fresh vocal versions of well-known classical instrumental pieces, Israeli songs, folk songs in various languages, musicals, jazz and Latin music.

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20.30 TASTING OF ISRAELI FOOD

Forum, Pula

Shai Ginott started her career as a photographer in 1984. Her photographs have appeared in newspapers, periodicals and books, including the bestseller Echoes of A Landscape (1992, MOD), which won the Gold Prize at the Jerusalem International Book Fair in 1993 and several other books. Her photographs have been displayed in exhibitions in Israel and abroad, among them the Barbican Centre in London and the Olympus Gallery in Tokyo.

Amir Gwirtzman is one of Israel’s leading jazz musicians. He began his solo project Inhale-Exhale, in November 2008, performing alone on stage surrounded by 20 woodwinds, reeds, horns, pipes, flutes and percussion instruments. Growing up in Israel, Amir infuses Inhale-Exhale with a unique blend of the earthly R&B of Ray Charles, the soaring jazz of Chick Corea, Miles Davis & Wayne Shorter, with the rich rhythms of Cuban jazz along with Middle Eastern, Gypsy, Jewish Klezmer, Armenian, Irish Celtic & Native American influences as well.

21.30 AMIR GWIRTZMAN

August’s Temple

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21.30 LIOR SUCHARD

August’s Temple, Pula

Shaul Ben Aderet, a famous chef from Israel, opened his first restaurant twenty years ago. He cooperated with some of the leading Israeli chefs and cooked in Michelin restaurants all over the world. He will prepare some dishes which will bring tastes, colors and scents of the Israeli Mediterranean cuisine.

Cvajner Gallery, Pula

Tuesday, August 621.00 CARMEL QUARTET

TheCathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Pula

Sheketak is the joint project of extraordinary dancers and rhythm experts who in their modern, innovative choreographies unite music, rhythm and dance sequences in different styles like break-dance, step, hip hop etc.Sheketak dance group was founded in 1997 by Danny Rachom and Zahi Patish.It started with 5 members, and the first show combined live music, dance, rhythm and lots of energy. The show became an international success and its creators went on to create more shows, work for TV, theatre and live events worldwide.In 2003 Danny Rachom and Zahi Patish created Rhythm in Motion - a big show with 12 artists that combines also video art and special effects.

Wednesday, August 721.00 TASTING OF ISRAELI FOOD

Forum, Pula21.30 SHEKETAK- rHYTHm IN moTIoN

Forum, Pula

Thursday, August 821.00 OPERA AND MUSICALS NIGHT

Kastel, Pula

One of Israel’s most extraordinary indie successes, Acollective has been playing monthly shows to sold out venues, whilst headlining some of Israel’s leading music festivals. The band tours Europe regularly and has quickly earned a reputation.Their unforgettable energetic stage presence has gained critical acclaim and extensive airplay in local and national radio and TV stations, and the band were given enthusiastic mentions.Acollective evolved in the backstreets of Tel-Aviv. The band’s early shows became well-known in Tel-Aviv, and soon all over Israel.

Tuesday, August 621.00 AMIR GWIRTZMAN, Trg Slobode

Wednesday, August 721.00 CARMEL QUARTET, Euphrasian Basilica

Friday, August 922.00 ACOLLECTIVE, Trg Slobode

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The Carmel Quartet, was established in 1999. In 2001 the quartet won the first prize in the Prague-Vienna-Budapest international competition in Austria. The quartet studied in Israel and abroad with the members of the Alban Berg Quartet in Cologne, with Walter Levin of the LaSalle Quartet and with members of the Amadeus, Hagen, Bartok and Janacek Quartets.The members of the Carmel Quartet have won prizes in competitions and they performed on tours in Europe and the USA, in prestigious halls such as Carnegie Hall and the Vienna Konzerthaus. The quartet has performed with internationally renowned musicians such as violinists Gidon Kremer and Nikolai Znaider, violist Tabea Zimmerman, pianists Ian Fountain and Pnina Salzman, guitarist Emanuele Segre and Cantor Alberto Mizrahi.

22.30 ACOLLECTIVE

Kastel, Pula

Thursday, August 8

This concert is cooperation between the Israeli conductor Noam Zur and soloists Keren Hadar- soprano, Hila Baggio- soprano and Yuri Kissin- bass baritone and the Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra. They will perform famous opera and operetta arias, as well as some songs from musicals.Maestro Noam Zur was educated in Israel, Germany and the USA. Since 2001, Zur has performed in major concert halls and with leading orchestras worldwide. Noam Zur regularly conducts in houses such as Vienna Volksoper, Bucharest National Opera & Israeli opera and orchestras in Europe, USA, South Africa and Israel. Hila Baggio studied at the Rubin Academy of Music at Tel Aviv University. Hila Baggio is one of the most successful, critically acclaimed, award-winning and sought after Israeli sopranos. She regularly performs at the Israeli Opera and frequently performs in oratorio concerts and lieder programs in many countries.Keren Hadar is a graduate of Beit-Zvi – the Academy of Performing Arts, Israel. She studied opera in Berlin in 2006-2007, funded by a special grant given to her by Maestro Daniel Barenboim. She performs with many of the best orchestras in Israel and abroad with such conductors as Barenboim, Mehta, Mazel and others. Keren is an Israel Cultural Excellence Foundation (IcExcellence) chosen artist since 2008.Yuri Kissin immigrated to Israel in 1990 and now resides in Paris. He was a member of the Paris Opera Studio and was regularly invited to sing roles in

operas such as Yevgeny Onegin, Parsifal, Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Rigoletto, Macbeth and Mozart’s Masetto and Leporello in many European opera houses.

Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra is an important part of a rich and diversified cultural tradition of Dubrovnik and Croatia. The Orchestra is continuing a long and important seven-hundred-year musical tradition which started in the time of the ancient Republic of Dubrovnik (1358 – 1808).