{{Short description|Serbian-American conductor, harpsichordist, and baritone}} {{Infobox person | image = Predrag Gosta, conductor.jpg | caption = Gosta conducting the St. Petersburg State Academic Capella in 2010 | birth_name = Predrag Gosta | birth_place = Belgrade, Yugoslavia (Serbia) | occupation = Conductor, harpsichordist & baritone | years_active = 1993–present | website = predraggosta.com }} '''Predrag Gosta''' (Cyrillic: ''Предраг Госта'') is a Serbian-American conductor, harpsichordist, and baritone.<ref name="bgf.co.rs">[http://www.bgf.rs/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=425:predrag-gosta&catid=105:dirigenti&Itemid=595&lang=en Biography at the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra web site]</ref>
==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,<ref name="New Trinity Baroque">[http://www.newtrinitybaroque.org/biographies/artisticdirector.html Biography at the New Trinity Baroque web site]</ref> and the music director and conductor of the Gwinnett Ballet Theatre<ref name="Gwinnett Ballet Theatre">[http://www.gwinnettballet.org/staffandteachers#predrag Biography at the Gwinnett Ballet Theatre web site]</ref> based in Atlanta, United States; the president of the international early music society Early Music Network.<ref name="Early Music Network">[http://www.earlymusic.net/about/board.html Early Music Network's Board of Directors page]</ref> 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.<ref name="festivalranemuzike.com">[http://www.festivalranemuzike.com Web site of the Belgrade International Early Music Festival]</ref> 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.<ref name="LookerWeekly - The Awards for the Association of Musical Artists for 2017">[http://www.lookerweekly.com/najavljujem0/nagrada-umus-a-za-2018-godinu/ LookerWeekly - The Awards for the Association of Musical Artists for 2017]</ref> Predrag Gosta is also the artistic director of the Belgrade Baroque Academy,<ref>[http://www.belgradebaroqueacademy.com Belgrade Baroque Academy web site]</ref> 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 Philharmonic<ref name="National Philharmonic Orchestra">[http://private.nationalphilharmonic.org/predraggosta.htm Biography at the National Philharmonic web site]</ref> in Washington, D.C. Since 2010 he is the president of the Makris Foundation<ref>[http://www.makrisfoundation.org Makris Foundation]</ref> 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.<ref>[http://www.peterthegreatmusicacademy.com/about.htm Peter the Great Music Academy's web site]</ref> In 2014 Gosta established the New Belgrade Opera,<ref name="B92 Radio - Gosta established New Belgrade Opera">[http://www.b92.net/kultura/vesti.php?nav_category=321&yyyy=2014&mm=04&nav_id=835908 B92 Radio - Gosta established New Belgrade Opera]</ref> which is focused on baroque opera. In 2015 he became the music director of the New Symphony Orchestra of Belgrade,<ref name="Blic Daily - Belgrade got a new symphony orchestra">[http://www.blic.rs/kultura/vesti/beograd-dobio-novi-simfonijski-orkestar-veceras-prvi-nastup-na-kolarcu/2nrh63d Blic Daily - Belgrade got a new symphony orchestra]</ref> which now bears the name of the Greek-American composer Andreas Makris<ref name="Politika Daily - New Symphony Orchestra Makris held its premiere concert">[http://www.politika.rs/scc/clanak/317874/Novi-simfonijski-orkestar-Makris-odrzao-premijerni-koncert Politika Daily - New Symphony Orchestra Makris held its premiere concert]</ref> 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 Aeneas''<ref>Eric Van Tassel - Purcell's operas revisited - Early Music 32:4. [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/early_music/v032/32.4tassel.html Article also available online]</ref> 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,<ref>Georgia State University's Notable Alumni List of Georgia State University people</ref> and as a choir professor and artist-in-residence at Oxford College of Emory University<ref>[http://www.oxfordchorale.org Oxford Chorale's web site]</ref> in Oxford, Georgia, USA.
== Discography and videography == {| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: smaller; text-align: left; width: 100%;" |- !Album !Orchestra/Ensemble !Soloist(s) !Label !Release year |- !Telemann: ''Pimpinone'' |New Trinity Baroque, New Belgrade Opera, et al. |Sreten Manojlović, Radoslava Vorgić |forthcoming |2025 |- !Handel: ''Acis and Galatea'' |New Trinity Baroque, New Belgrade Opera, et al. |Leif Aruhn-Solén, Beatriz de Sousa, Mathias Hedegaard, Sreten Manojlović, et al. |forthcoming |2024 |- !Monteverdi: ''L'Orfeo'' |New 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. |forthcoming |2024 |- !J.S. Bach: Early Cantatas (BWV 4, 61, 150 and 196) |New Trinity Baroque |Wanda Yang Temko, Carrie Cheron, Leif Aruhn-Solén, Paul Max Tipton |forthcoming |2024 |- !W.A. Mozart: ''Requiem'' |Makris Symphony Orchestra |Ana-Marija Brkić, Dragana Popović, Roberto Jachini Virgili, Sreten Manojlović |forthcoming |2024 |- !Handel: ''Orlando'' |Baroque Orchestra of the New Belgrade Opera |Bojan Bulatović, Sreten Manojlović, Ana-Marija Brkić, Radoslava Vorgić, Dragana Popović |forthcoming |2022 |- !Slavic Spirit (Music by Mussorgsky, Smetana, Tchaikovsky and Borodin) |Makris Symphony Orchestra | |Edition Lilac |2021 |- !W.A. Mozart: Concertos for Piano and Violin |Makris Symphony Orchestra |Nataša Veljković, Milica Zulus |Edition Lilac |2020 |- !Purcell: ''Dido and Aeneas'' (15th Anniversary Edition) |New Trinity Baroque |Evelyn Tubb, Thomas Meglioranza, et al |Edition Lilac |2019 |- !Buxtehude: Membra Jesu Nostri |New Trinity Baroque |Radoslava Vorgić, Dragana Popović, Bojan Bulatović, Marko Živković, Sreten Manojlović |Edition Lilac |2018 |- !Monteverdi: ''L'Orfeo'' |Baroque Orchestra of the New Belgrade Opera |Nikola Diskić, Antonia Dunjko, Radoslava Vorgić, Marko Špehar, Dragana Popović, Marko Živković, Ljubomir Popović, et al. |OperaVision |2017 |- !Predrag Gosta and London Symphony Orchestra: Orchestral Highlights (Music by Mussorgsky, Rachmaninov and Makris) |London Symphony Orchestra |Tomo Keller, Andrew Marriner, et al. |Edition Lilac |2016 |- !J.S. Bach: Violin Concertos |New Trinity Baroque |Carrie Krause, Adriane Post |Edition Lilac |2016 |- !Mussorgsky (orch. Ravel): Pictures at an Exhibition / Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances |London Symphony Orchestra |Tomo Keller, et al. |Edition Lilac |2016 |- !Makris: Orchestral Works |London Symphony Orchestra |Andrew Marriner, et al. |Edition Lilac |2015 |- !Baroque Christmas (Concertos and Cantatas by Corelli, Torelli, Manfredini, Scarlatti, Buxtehude and Bernhard) |New Trinity Baroque |Kathryn Mueller, Wanda Yang Temko, Adriane Post, Carrie Krause, Martha Perry, Anna Griffis, André Laurent O'Neil |Edition Lilac |2011 |- !Vivaldi: Concertos |New Trinity Baroque |Carrie Krause, Daniela Giulia Pierson, Michael Fields, André Laurent O'Neil, Christina Babich Rosser |Edition Lilac |2010 |- !Handel: Arias |New Trinity Baroque |Leif Aruhn-Solén |Edition Lilac |2010 |- !Pergolesi: ''Stabat Mater'' |New Trinity Baroque |Evelyn Tubb, Terry Barber |Edition Lilac |2008 |- !Carissimi: Oratorios ''Jonas'' and ''Jephte'' |New Trinity Baroque, Oxford Chorale |Julia Matthews, Kevin Sutton |Edition Lilac |2007 |- !Charpentier: ''Messe de minuit'' / Handel: Organ Concertos |New Trinity Baroque, Canterbury Choir |Brad Hughley, Elizabeth Packard Arnold, Magdalena Wór, Brent Runnels, Patrick Newell |Edition Lilac |2005 |- !Purcell: ''Dido and Aeneas'' |New Trinity Baroque |Evelyn Tubb, Thomas Meglioranza, Julia Matthews, Elizabeth Packard Arnold, Allison A. Brown, Terry Barber, Kevin Sutton, Brad Fugate |Edition Lilac |2004 |- !Trio Sonatas & Chaconnas |New Trinity Baroque | |EMN |2003 |- !''Il Pastor Fido'' (Balli e Balletti by Monteverdi and Marini) |Ensemble of the Studio for Early Music Belgrade |Gordana Kostic, Predrag Djokovic, Nenad Ristovic, Predrag Gosta, et al. |STURAM |1996 |}
==References== {{Reflist}}
== External links == *[http://www.predraggosta.com Predrag Gosta's web site] *[http://www.newtrinitybaroque.org New Trinity Baroque's web site] *[http://www.gwinnettballet.org Gwinnett Ballet Theatre's web site] *[http://www.makrisorchestra.com Makris Symphony Orchestra's web site] *[http://www.makriscompetition.com Makris International Conducting Competition's web site] *[http://www.makrisfoundation.org Makris Foundation's web site] *[http://www.newbelgradeopera.com New Belgrade Opera's web site] *[http://www.belgradebaroqueacademy.com Belgrade Baroque Academy's web site] *[http://www.festivalranemuzike.com Belgrade International Early Music Festival's web site] *[http://www.editionlilac.com Edition Lilac's web site] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20150218001704/http://www.earlymusic.net/ Early Music Network's web site]
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