Predrag Gosta (Cyrillic: Предраг Госта) is a Serbian-American conductor, harpsichordist, and baritone.Biography at the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra web site
Life and career Predrag Gosta was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (present day Serbia), on 14 January 1972. His father was born to Serbian and German parents in Vojvodina and his mother to a large Croatian family in Herzegovina.
He studied at the Belgrade Music Academy, London's Trinity College of Music, Georgia State University in Atlanta (USA), as well as the University of Oxford.
He is the artistic director of an early music ensemble and baroque orchestra New Trinity Baroque,Biography at the New Trinity Baroque web site and the music director and conductor of the Gwinnett Ballet TheatreBiography at the Gwinnett Ballet Theatre web site based in Atlanta, United States; the president of the international early music society Early Music Network.Early Music Network's Board of Directors page From 1991 to 1996 he was the artistic director of the Studio for Early Music Belgrade and the Belgrade International Early Music Festival. Since the festival's renewal in 2012 Maestro Gosta has been serving again as its artistic director.Web site of the Belgrade International Early Music Festival The Festival has since grown to one of the largest and most successful early music festivals in southern Europe - in 2017 it received an Award from the classical music magazine Muzika klasika as the best festival for classical music in Serbia, while Maestro Gosta received the Artist of the Year award from the Association of Musical Artists.LookerWeekly - The Awards for the Association of Musical Artists for 2017 Predrag Gosta is also the artistic director of the Belgrade Baroque Academy,Belgrade Baroque Academy web site which he founded in 2013 and co-directed until 2019 with Serbian-born contralto Marijana Mijanović.
Between 2008 and 2009 he was the assistant conductor of the National PhilharmonicBiography at the National Philharmonic web site in Washington, D.C. Since 2010 he is the president of the Makris FoundationMakris Foundation in Washington, D.C., and the Makris Music Society. He is also an artistic advisor and U.S. director of Peter the Great Music Academy in St. Petersburg, Russia.Peter the Great Music Academy's web site In 2014 Gosta established the New Belgrade Opera,B92 Radio - Gosta established New Belgrade Opera which is focused on baroque opera. In 2015 he became the music director of the New Symphony Orchestra of Belgrade,Blic Daily - Belgrade got a new symphony orchestra which now bears the name of the Greek-American composer Andreas MakrisPolitika Daily - New Symphony Orchestra Makris held its premiere concert and is now known as the Makris Symphony Orchestra. In 2019, under this orchestra, he founded a new international competition for conductors, where he acts as the president of the jury.
Predrag Gosta has recorded several critically acclaimed CDs, including recording of Henry Purcell's opera Dido and AeneasEric Van Tassel - Purcell's operas revisited - Early Music 32:4. Article also available online with British soprano Evelyn Tubb, and recording of Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances and Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition with the London Symphony Orchestra. Other musicians he collaborated with include baroque violinists Florian Deuter, Ilia Korol and John Holloway, Baroque harpist Andrew Lawrence-King, lutenists Anthony Rooley and Michael Fields, Dutch recorder virtuoso Marion Verbruggen, harpsichordists Steven Devine and Ottaviano Tenerani, Italian countertenor Carlo Vistoli, Serbian contralto Marijana Mijanovic, Polish mezzo-soprano Magdalena Wór and others, as well as orchestras and theatre houses such as the London Symphony Orchestra, the Russian National Orchestra in Moscow, the State Hermitage Orchestra in St. Petersburg, the St. Petersburg State Capella Glinka, the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, the Theatre of Biel-Solothurn Theatre, the Belgrade National Theatre and the Madlenianum Opera-Theatre, opera theatres in Ruse, Burgas and Stara Zagora (Bulgaria) and others. He appeared at the festivals such as the Boston Early Music Festival and Piccolo Spoleto (USA), Varazdin Baroque Evenings and Korkyra Baroque (Croatia), Budva Theatre City (Montenegro) and many others.
Predrag Gosta also served the affiliate guest lecturer at Georgia State University in Atlanta,Georgia State University's Notable Alumni List of Georgia State University people and as a choir professor and artist-in-residence at Oxford College of Emory UniversityOxford Chorale's web site in Oxford, Georgia, USA.
Discography and videography AlbumOrchestra/EnsembleSoloist(s)LabelRelease yearTelemann: PimpinoneNew Trinity Baroque, New Belgrade Opera, et al.Sreten Manojlović, Radoslava Vorgićforthcoming2025Handel: Acis and GalateaNew Trinity Baroque, New Belgrade Opera, et al.Leif Aruhn-Solén, Beatriz de Sousa, Mathias Hedegaard, Sreten Manojlović, et al.forthcoming2024Monteverdi: L'OrfeoNew Trinity Baroque, La Pifarescha, New Belgrade Opera, et al.Nikola Diskić, Antonia Dunjko, Radoslava Vorgić, Marko Špehar, Dragana Popović, Marko Živković, Ljubomir Popović, et al.forthcoming2024J.S. Bach: Early Cantatas (BWV 4, 61, 150 and 196)New Trinity BaroqueWanda Yang Temko, Carrie Cheron, Leif Aruhn-Solén, Paul Max Tiptonforthcoming2024W.A. Mozart: RequiemMakris Symphony OrchestraAna-Marija Brkić, Dragana Popović, Roberto Jachini Virgili, Sreten Manojlovićforthcoming2024Handel: OrlandoBaroque Orchestra of the New Belgrade OperaBojan Bulatović, Sreten Manojlović, Ana-Marija Brkić, Radoslava Vorgić, Dragana Popovićforthcoming2022Slavic Spirit (Music by Mussorgsky, Smetana, Tchaikovsky and Borodin)Makris Symphony OrchestraEdition Lilac2021W.A. Mozart: Concertos for Piano and ViolinMakris Symphony OrchestraNataša Veljković, Milica ZulusEdition Lilac2020Purcell: Dido and Aeneas (15th Anniversary Edition)New Trinity BaroqueEvelyn Tubb, Thomas Meglioranza, et alEdition Lilac2019Buxtehude: Membra Jesu NostriNew Trinity BaroqueRadoslava Vorgić, Dragana Popović, Bojan Bulatović, Marko Živković, Sreten Manojlović Edition Lilac2018Monteverdi: L'OrfeoBaroque Orchestra of the New Belgrade OperaNikola Diskić, Antonia Dunjko, Radoslava Vorgić, Marko Špehar, Dragana Popović, Marko Živković, Ljubomir Popović, et al.OperaVision2017Predrag Gosta and London Symphony Orchestra: Orchestral Highlights (Music by Mussorgsky, Rachmaninov and Makris)London Symphony OrchestraTomo Keller, Andrew Marriner, et al.Edition Lilac2016J.S. Bach: Violin ConcertosNew Trinity BaroqueCarrie Krause, Adriane PostEdition Lilac2016Mussorgsky (orch. Ravel): Pictures at an Exhibition / Rachmaninov: Symphonic DancesLondon Symphony OrchestraTomo Keller, et al.Edition Lilac2016Makris: Orchestral WorksLondon Symphony OrchestraAndrew Marriner, et al.Edition Lilac2015Baroque Christmas (Concertos and Cantatas by Corelli, Torelli, Manfredini, Scarlatti, Buxtehude and Bernhard)New Trinity BaroqueKathryn Mueller, Wanda Yang Temko, Adriane Post, Carrie Krause, Martha Perry, Anna Griffis, André Laurent O'NeilEdition Lilac2011Vivaldi: ConcertosNew Trinity BaroqueCarrie Krause, Daniela Giulia Pierson, Michael Fields, André Laurent O'Neil, Christina Babich RosserEdition Lilac2010Handel: AriasNew Trinity BaroqueLeif Aruhn-SolénEdition Lilac2010Pergolesi: Stabat MaterNew Trinity BaroqueEvelyn Tubb, Terry BarberEdition Lilac2008Carissimi: Oratorios Jonas and JephteNew Trinity Baroque, Oxford ChoraleJulia Matthews, Kevin SuttonEdition Lilac2007Charpentier: Messe de minuit / Handel: Organ ConcertosNew Trinity Baroque, Canterbury ChoirBrad Hughley, Elizabeth Packard Arnold, Magdalena Wór, Brent Runnels, Patrick NewellEdition Lilac2005Purcell: Dido and AeneasNew Trinity BaroqueEvelyn Tubb, Thomas Meglioranza, Julia Matthews, Elizabeth Packard Arnold, Allison A. Brown, Terry Barber, Kevin Sutton, Brad FugateEdition Lilac2004Trio Sonatas & ChaconnasNew Trinity BaroqueEMN2003Il Pastor Fido (Balli e Balletti by Monteverdi and Marini)Ensemble of the Studio for Early Music BelgradeGordana Kostic, Predrag Djokovic, Nenad Ristovic, Predrag Gosta, et al.STURAM1996
References
External links Predrag Gosta's web site New Trinity Baroque's web site Gwinnett Ballet Theatre's web site Makris Symphony Orchestra's web site Makris International Conducting Competition's web site Makris Foundation's web site New Belgrade Opera's web site Belgrade Baroque Academy's web site Belgrade International Early Music Festival's web site Edition Lilac's web site Early Music Network's web site