Welcome to the twelfth issue of Croats in London. CIL appears in the first week of every month.

This month: Ivana Vidovic piano concerts, Croats hand letter to 10 Downing Street regarding Ante Gotovina

Ivana Marija Vidovic Piano Concerts

Ivana Marija Vidovic

Croatian pianist Ivana Marija Vidovic, who has played in the UK previously, returns to play in St. Albans and London on 27 and 29 August.

St.Saviours Church, St. Albans in aid of Ante Kardum 27 August 7.30 PM Free (but donations for Ante welcomed)

Ivana will be playing works by Albeniz, Granados, Liszt and Elgar.

The concert will be for the benefit of young Ante Kardum. During the war in Croatia, a Serbian attack on the city of Zadar, Ante’s mother was killed and he lost his left leg up to the knee. As he is growing, his prosthetics need replacing and this is expensive for his family. Donations for Ante are very much welcomed at this event. More info (including location details) at www.ssaviours.org

Lunchtime Concert, St.Martins-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square 29 August 1.00 PM Free

Ivana will be performing a lunchtime concert. She will play works by Pero Sisa, Granados, Liszt and Elgar. The concert will be approx 50 minutes long, and is free of charge.

Ivana was born in Dubrovnik. She began her piano studies at the Music Conservatory in Dubrovnik at the age of four, continued at the Academy of Ljubljana, Slovenia with Dubravka Tomsic and her student Tatjana Ognanovic and participated in various Masterclasses of Jevgenij Timakin, Naum Starkmann, Eugene Indjic and Alberto Portugheis.

She won a ‘Preseren award’ at the Academy of Ljubljana in 1998, for the interpretation of Mozart’s Piano Concerto in F-Major, KV 459 with the Dubrovnik Symphonic Orchestra, under the battle of M° Vatovec.

She performs regularly in Croatia and abroad.

She has published various articles and books of poems as well as having recorded her first CD in 2003, in Great Britain and DVD in 2004, in Dubrovnik. Her CD will be available for purchase at the events.

Ivana has been sponsored by the Croatian Ministry of Culture, whom she thanks, for these concerts.

Croats hand letter to 10 Downing Street regarding Ante Gotovina

On 5 August, Brian Gallagher, Jasna Celic and Marko Krznaric on behalf of themselves and other
concerned Croats in the UK handed a letter for Tony Blair to 10 Downing Street. August 5 was the
10th anniversary of Croatia’s Operation Storm, which successfully liberated large parts of Croatia
and was instrumental in stopping Milosevic, Karadzic and Mladic - saving Bosnia-Herzegovina and
bringing about the Dayton Peace Agreement.

The letter expressed concerns both over the indictment of General Gotovina as well as British
policy towards Croatia; London has prevented Croatia from starting EU negotiations entry over
the Gotovina issue.

The letter asked for London to press for a review of the charges against Gotovina, and asked that
the UK drops its objections to Croatia joining the EU.

The letter concluding by inviting Tony Blair and his family to visit Croatia, saying that “Dubrovnik,
Istria and Dalmatia are considered some of the most beautiful parts of Europe, indeed the world.”

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27 August - Ivana Marija Vidovic Piano Concert - St.Saviours Church, St. Albans in aid of Ante Kardum 7.30 PM Free

29 August - Ivana Marija Vidovic Lunchtime Piano Concert, St.Martins-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square 1.00 PM Free .

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