Concerts
The Trio in tour

Harare International Festival of Arts (Zimbabwe), 2009
"Enligh10ment" - HIFA 2009 theme explained
    Enlightenment is the striving for and achievement of greater knowledge and understanding, the process through which we ‘see the light’…

  The evolution of HIFA over the last 10 years has been a shared journey of progressive enlightenment, a varied road trip in pursuit of thought-provoking creative endeavour, offering escape as well as empathy, fantasy as well as reason, beauty as well as realism.
    Our 2009 Festival is a snapshot from an important destination along the way. This year we ask you to consider different forms of enlightenment. We invite you to be part of diverse creative perspectives that bring to light ideas about where we are and where we are going.
    We urge you to come together in a spirit of blazing communal solidarity and to revel in the vibrant power of the arts to engage feelings in us that that are often beyond rational explanation and yet are powerfully illuminating.

    So, at a time when all Zimbabweans are seeking ‘a light at the end of the tunnel’, the lightening of our individual burdens and an ethos of reason, clarity and resolution, HIFA presents our largest and most luminous Festival yet. We plan to prominently celebrate our 10th anniversary but also to turn a spotlight on all of us – our fears, our sadness, our joys and ultimately on our hope for a brighter future.

Thanks to support of the Italian Embassy in Harare Trio Broz performed in Harare International Festival of Arts.
Here the list of the concerts:

Tuesday 28th April,  5.00 pm
Old Mutual Recital Room
Concert with the pianist Fausto Quintabà

 Wednesday 29th April,  7.30 pm
The Opera Gala - Main Stage

 Thursday 30th April, 11.45 am
Old Mutual Recital Room
 Concert with the pianist Fausto Quintabà

Thursday 30th April, 5.30pm
Old Mutual Recital Room
Trio Broz Goldberg Variations

Friday 1st May, 1.45 pm
Old Mutual Recital Room
Concert with the pianist Fausto Quintabà
Standing ovation at the end of the performance.
Was so much joy to attend a wonderful event like the International Fastival of Arts in Harare in 2008, was even more satisfaction to come back and to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Festival in the company of many great artists and good friends, who affectionately followed us during this year faraway. 

Despite the known problems afflicting Zimbabwe, during this week have been hosted in Harare over 120 shows and 20 workshops of music, dance and visual arts, with artists from every continent. 
We, in the company of Sicilian pianist Fausto Quintabà have represented the kind of classical chamber music with works by Mozart, Brahms, Fauré, Schumann and Turina, and the Goldberg Variations of Bach for strings in the version of the Maestro Giuranna. Both critics and the audience showed great enthusiasm for all our performances and at the end of each concert, there was a standing ovation. 
We have also partecipated at one of the most awaited events of the Festival, followed by thousands of people: the Opera Gala on the Main Stage; it has been a real pleasure to work with young and splendid  professionists as Lee Bisset (soprano), Lynn Boudreau ( soprano), Alenka Ponjavic (mezzo-soprano), Andrew Sritheran (tenor), Hakan Vramsmo (baritone). 

We are very grateful at the Italian Embassy in Harare for giving us the opportunity to replicate an artistically and humanly really extraordinary experience and we always remember with admiration and gratitude all the friends of the Festival Staff: with passion, dedication and seriously they achieved an event of incredible emotional intensity.
"... this music ensamble captivated the audience in masterful pieces that received sounding applause on each presented composition. The repertoire was served out beautifully as the music instruments jelled in perfectly and the instrumentalists showed a great standard of mastery and excellence. For all the starved classic music lovers, this is a show not to miss."

Olive Ncube, HIFA Lutin Wednesday 29 2009
Trio Broz and some friends of the HIFA staff.   Trio Broz and the other artists of the Opera Gala.
Trio Broz and Patrick Mavros.   sunset on the hills of Patrick Mavros
You can also visit the website of the Festival: http://www.hifa.co.zw/index.html