The “SA Sinfonietta” ensemble will hold a concert on Friday, July 3, 2026, at 7 p.m., in the garden of the Museum of Literature and Theater Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as part of the Soundscape – Sarajevo Summer Fest festival.
Tamara Arsovski and Alma Dizdar on violin, Aida Deljkić on viola and Belma Alić on cello will perform at the concert. The program is conceived as an overview of different stylistic and compositional approaches to the string ensemble, from classic music and works based on historical dance forms to 20th century compositions and more contemporary tango arrangements.
The concert will open with the Divertimento in F major, K. 138 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a three-movement work created in the early period of the composer’s work. The fast outer movements and central Andantes demonstrate Mozart’s clear shaping of the melodic line and the balanced relationship between the string sections.
It will be followed by the Holberg Suite, Op. 40 by Edvard Grieg. The composition was created on the occasion of marking the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of the Danish-Norwegian writer Ludvig Holberg, and is based on the dances and stylistic patterns of the Baroque suite. Through the movements of the Praelude, Sarabande, Gavotte, Air and Rigaudon, Grieg connects older musical forms with the harmonic and expressive characteristics of Romanticism.
St. is also on the program. Paul’s Suite in C major, Op. 29, no. 2 by Gustav Holst, originally written for the string orchestra of schoolgirls at St. Paul’s in London, where Holst worked as a music educator. The four movements of the suite are based on clear rhythmic patterns, contrapuntal work and elements of English traditional music. The final movement links The Dargason tune with the familiar Greensleeves folk theme.
The second part of the program focuses on tango and its different forms in string quartet music. The ensemble will perform Underground Tango by Goran Bregović, followed by Blues Tango and Evening Shadows by Leslie Searle, and Por una cabeza by Carlos Gardel, one of the most famous works of Argentine tango.
The concert program connects compositions from different eras, cultural environments and musical expressions: from court entertainment music and stylized baroque dances to works of the 20th century and tango as a concert form.
Entrance to the concert is free.
