Anja & Zlatna

Balkan Caravan
2021-09-02 19:00 - 20:00 (Australia/Adelaide) | The Athenaeum 2 188 Collins St, Melbourne, The Athenaeum 2 188 Collins St, Melbourne, Any city
Back by popular demand, Anja & Zlatna returns with its winning combination of voices and instruments, fusing exotic rhythms and melodies of the Balkans with 17th-century improvisation. Join us on a journey filled with humour and celebrate all the beauties of the world. Colourful family songs meet evocative sevdah, all flavoured with that distinctive Balkan beat.

LOVE AND OTHER MYSTERIES - live in Melbourne or stream anywhere in the world
2021-05-13 08:30 - 21:30 (Australia/Adelaide) | The Athenaeum 2 188 Collins St, Melbourne, The Athenaeum 2 188 Collins St, Melbourne, Any city
Anja & Zlatna brings a unique combination of voices and instrumentalists, fusing exotic Balkan rhythms and melodies with 17th-century improvisation. This incredible ensemble has won audiences everywhere and is coming to the MDCH. This program celebrates beauty of all sorts, featuring colourful street songs, heart-breaking sevdah, and a fiery Fandango.

Romani Caravan
2021-03-20 18:00 - 19:00 (Australia/Adelaide) | Melbourne Recital Centre, Corner Southbank Boulevard & Sturt St, Melbourne, Australia
Come to the nomadic lands of the Romani people and get ready to fall in love with their quirky songs. With more than a touch of humour, Anja & Zlatna performs songs and dances that celebrate distant lands, magnificent horses and – of course – beautiful women. These lighthearted songs recount Romani adventures and may even teach you a few pearls of wisdom along the way – did you know, you should always give up your last penny to hear a good song? With Anja & Zlatna playing, of course you should.

Beautiful Balkans: Songs about Him
2020-11-02 18:00 - 19:00 UTC | Victoria
Anja & Zlatna continues a Balkan journey where the music and stories make you feel just like you are there. Hear Anja & Zlatna sing and play their wonderful repertoire, this time celebrating fathers, brothers, lovers and more. What happens when you fall in love when you’re young? Does a gentleman need money to marry the most beautiful girl in town? This musical journey is filled with humour in a program that connects the universal values of humanity. With harmony intrinsic to these songs, the voices of Anja and Zlatna delight your soul as the versatility of the instrumentalists charm your ears with the unexpected colours of the harpsichord.

Beautiful Balkans: Songs about Her
2020-02-22 18:00 - 19:00 UTC | Victoria
Anja & Zlatna invites you to an exciting insight into the Balkans’ unending romantic love for women. These are those ladies who can be seen at weddings, sharing sorrows and joys of love or even working on the fields. Melodies and texts spring forth from centuries long past with their powerful threads and themes reaching out to our modern-day communities. Leitmotifs of love, yearning and friendship bring together a diversity of musical traditions – transporting you to the lands of this beautiful region and celebrating mothers, daughters, sisters, friends and loved ones.

Anja & Zlatna Relaxed Performance
2019-11-21 12:00 - 12:45 UTC | Melbourne Recital Centre, Corner Southbank Boulevard & Sturt St, Melbourne, Australia
Enjoy a casual attitude to noise and movement
Melbourne Recital Centre’s series of Relaxed Performances provides the same exceptional artists in the best place to hear, with an environment particularly suitable for audience members with autism, learning disabilities or sensory sensitivities.
This time, experience Anja & Zlatna’s beautiful melodic lines and complex rhythms from Eastern Europe, the Middle East and beyond.

Dance until the Sunrise
2019-11-16 18:00 - 19:00 UTC | Melbourne Recital Centre, Corner Southbank Boulevard & Sturt St, Melbourne, Australia
Anja & Zlatna continues a Balkan journey where the music and stories make you feel just like you are there. What happens when you fall in love when young and untried? Could you relate to a girl who loves to take off her shoes and dance until sunrise? Have you been to Florence, the birthplace of the Renaissance? Hear Anja & Zlatna sing and play their wonderful music from the Balkans.

The Boîte presents Anja & Zlatna
2019-09-13 08:00 - 22:00 UTC | Box Hill Community Arts Centre 470 Station St, Box Hill, VIC 3128, Box Hill Community Arts Centre 470 Station St, Box Hill, VIC 3128, Melbourne, Victoria, 3128, Australia
Anja & Zlatna sing the exhilarating repertoire of the Balkans, sweet, songs with exciting, edgy harmonies and compelling driving rhythms. They sing love songs, stories from village life and dance tunes. Enjoy the tunes the Romani carried from place to place.

Anja & Zlatna: Music without Borders: "That gentle light that wakes me"
2019-08-04 12:00 - 13:10 UTC | Hall of Congregation of Mark the Evangelist, 4 Elm St. North Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Anja & Zlatna would like to invite you to our annual concert ‘Music without borders’ – this time, in support of a monastery in Ljubovija, Serbia (Манастир Свете Тројице) whose Monks are inspiring in their music and work for the community.
The programme will feature beautiful and intricate music from the Balkans, Russia, Scotland, England, Spain and Native America. Any donation is welcome, but if you are not in a position to donate, please come and enjoy our music and community.
Duration: 70 minutes; no interval; child-friendly event
ENTRY BY DONATION FOR THE CAUSE

Tales from the Balkans
2019-02-16 18:00 - 2019-02-19 19:00 UTC | Victoria
Anja & Zlatna invites you to an exciting insight into the Balkans. Whether about weddings, working on the field or the sorrows and joys of love, the Balkans’ memorable music brings a plethora of stories coloured with multiple interpretations. Shed a tear for a friend whose burdens are turning her hair grey, enjoy a lively wedding and imagine yourself dancing to that distinctive Balkan rhythm.

Russian Caravan
2018-11-17 18:00 - 19:00 UTC | Melbourne Recital Centre, Salon, Corner Southbank Boulevard & Sturt St, Melbourne
Journey through a land imbued with a fascinating and curious history. Russian Caravan features traditional and street songs, exploring dreams, nature and integral questions of existence.
From the ecstatic meditations of ‘Dusha maya pogreshnaya’, to the pensive street poetry of ‘Godi Mchatsya’ (Years Rush) and the patriotic war song ‘Katyusha’, experience the variety of Russian song with some added romance, of songs which became popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Music without borders (Vol.VII)
2018-08-12 13:00 - 14:00 UTC | Hall of Congregation of Mark the Evangelist, 4 Elm St. North Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Anja & Zlatna would like to invite you to our annual concert ‘Music without borders’ – in support of Befriend a Child in Detention community project. We hope to raise much needed funds for educational resources for these unfortunate Children.
Location: 4 Elm Street North Melbourne, Hall of Congregation of Mark the Evangelist
The programme will feature beautiful and intricate music from the Balkans and beyond. Any donation is welcome, but if you are not in a position to donate, please come and enjoy our music and community.
Duration: 1 hour, no interval
ENTRY BY DONATION FOR THE CAUSE
Thank you to Congregation of Mark the Evangelist for kindly providing a concert space for this event.

Musical Postacards
2018-07-14 17:00 - 18:10 UTC | Capital Theatre Bendigo, The Capital 50 View Street, Bendigo, Victoria, 3550, Australia
This is a celebratory evening, exploring songs and dances which have been long cherished by people from the region of the Balkans and Eastern Mediterranean. Anja & Zlatna’s delightful musical interpretations will surprise, delight and transport you to the faraway exotic lands beyond the concert hall.

Balkan Jewels
2018-02-17 18:00 - 19:00 UTC | Melbourne Recital Centre, Salon, Corner Southbank Boulevard & Sturt St, Melbourne
Balkan Jewels is a celebratory evening, exploring songs and dances which have long been cherished by people from this region.
Melodies and texts spring forth from centuries long past with their powerful threads and themes reaching out to our modern-day communities; leitmotifs of love, yearning and friendship bring together a diversity of melodic and rhythmic traditions – transporting you to the faraway lands of this beautiful region.

Love and Other Secrets
2017-09-09 18:00 - 19:00 UTC | Melbourne Recital Centre, Salon, Corner Southbank Boulevard & Sturt St, Melbourne

When Roads Meet: Balkan Crossings
2017-04-08 18:00 - 19:00 UTC | Melbourne Recital Centre, Salon, Corner Southbank Boulevard & Sturt St, Melbourne

Music without Borders: Volume 5 For Children in Immigration Detention
2016-11-13 17:00 - 18:15 UTC | Church of All Nations, 180 Palmerston St, Melbourne, Victoria , Australia

Anja & Zlatna & Friends: Greetings from the Beautiful Balkans
2016-10-28 18:00 - 19:00 UTC | Edinburgh Gardens, Edinburgh Gardens, Alfred Crescent, Fitzroy North , Melbourne, Victoria, 3068, Australia

Letters from Beyond (Melbourne Recital Centre, Salon)
2016-08-03 18:00 - 19:00 UTC | Melbourne Recital Centre, Corner Southbank Boulevard & Sturt St, Melbourne, Australia
An exploration of the earthly and the sublime…
Anja & Zlatna explore the phenomena of dreams, nature and the integral questions to existence, which have long found expression through folk music.
Focussing primarily on Balkan folk music, this program ranges from the ecstatic meditations of the medieval Orthodox chant ‘Radusya nevesto’ to the prophetic words of the Virgin Mary to her infant Jesus in Falconieri’s hypnotic ‘Hor ch’e Tempo’. Letters From Beyond is an exploration of the earthly and the sublime.

Letters from Abroad (Melbourne Recital Centre, Salon)
2016-03-16 18:00 - 19:00 UTC | Melbourne Recital Centre, Corner Southbank Boulevard & Sturt St, Melbourne, Australia
Songs of life, love, jealousies, loss and lament…
Anja & Zlatna present a program that bursts with the vitality and diversity of folk music from Europe and the Balkans. Songs wishing well for newly-weds share company with the complaints of exhausted mothers, whilst the exotic scales of Turkish classical music melt into the haunting ethereal world of Bulgarian lament. Punctuated with letters from one particular intrepid traveller, Letters from Abroad is your very own picture-perfect tour from Melbourne.

Letters from Abroad (Melbourne Recital Centre, Salon)
2016-03-16 14:00 - 15:00 UTC | Melbourne Recital Centre, Salon, Corner Southbank Boulevard & Sturt St, Melbourne

Anja & Zlatna: Music Without Borders for Doctors Without Borders Médecins Sans Frontières
2015-11-29 00:05 - 13:05 UTC | Hall of Congregation of Mark the Evangelist, 4 Elm St. North Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Free entry or by donation to the cause.

Lullabies, Weddings and Funerals
2015-03-30 18:00 - 19:00 (Australia/Adelaide) | Melbourne Recital Centre, Corner Southbank Boulevard & Sturt St, Melbourne, Australia
Folk songs, Baroque improvisations and more.
A celebratory evening of folk songs, enhanced with Baroque improvisations, which will be both moving and invigorating.
Ensemble Anja & Zlatna presents a program of beautiful melodic lines and complex rhythms from Eastern Europe and the Middle East in an exploration of the phenomena of birth, life and death. The ensemble’s unique sound comes from the unusual blend of flute, bass, harpsichord and voices (plus a few other surprises!).
Together they perform a selection of re-imagined folk melodies from Russia, Italy and the Eastern Mediterranean.
Photo: Verica Bajic Manojlovic
Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre and Anja and Zlatna
