Like last season, this year’s matinee presents two concerts in two venues. It will again take place in part at the intimate and elegant Refugium in Lunz, in cooperation with the Brücken festival, a renowned music and literature festival in Mürz. The artistic director Ernst Kovacic has curated the performance of the two young musicians Mina Zakić and Symon Kałużny. Not only does this duo perform contemporary pieces, they elaborate on their performance as well. In this way they break the barrier which often makes it hard for listeners to truly engage in new and contemporary music. We from the wellenkænge festival are complementing these artists with another brilliant duo, Willi Landl and Michael Hornek. They are entertaining, eccentric and musically brilliant. On this Sunday we are building bridges. Not only to our befriended festival in Mürz, but also between different musical spheres and places in Lunz. For the second half, the matinee will transform the local church into an invigorating world of new music.

Mina Zakić
Mina Zakić began her musical career as a Cellist in Belgrad, studying under Nada Jovanović and later in Novi Sad, in the class of Imre Kalman. She graduated from the Music College of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow and in 2010 became a student at the Tchaikovsky State Conservatory in Moscow in the class of Alexey Seleznyov. In 2021 she completed her master's degree with Professor Xenia Jankovic at the University of Music in Detmold, Germany. Since 2023 she is a student of PPCM studies in Graz. As a soloist, Mina Zakić has performed with the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, the RTS Symphony Orchestra, the Kremlin, the RTV, the Orquestra do Algarve, the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra, the Westfalen Chamber Orchestra and I Solisti Veneti, among others. Mina Zakić also explores the performative possibilities of her instrument with great passion.

Szymon Kałużny
The violinist and composer Szymon Kałużny was born in Poland. His performance focusses on contemporary music. He graduated with honors from the Chopin University of Music in Warsaw and obtained a master's degree in violin. Szymon Kałużny currently lives in Graz and is completing a master's degree at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz as part of the Performance Practice in Contemporary Music (PPCM) program under the direction of Klangforum Wien. Szymon Kałużny is an active concert violinist with a focus on contemporary music who regularly performs as a soloist and as a substitute in renowned ensembles. He has been part of important festivals such as the Salzburg Festival Summer, Musikprotokoll and IMPULS in Austria as well as the OutHEAR New Music Week in Greece.