Predrag Gosta
Predrag Gosta is a conductor, harpsichordist and musicologist specialising in baroque opera and historically informed performance. He is completing a DPhil in Music at the University of Oxford (Christ Church), supervised by Professor Suzanne Aspden. His dissertation studies Stephen Storace’s The Siege of Belgrade (1791) and offers a new reconstruction of the opera’s orchestral score from Joseph Dale’s surviving particello (1791). His doctoral research was supported by the Andreas and Margaret Makris Doctoral Research Scholarship. He is a Tutor at the Faculty of Music, University of Oxford.
As a performer, he founded the London period-instrument orchestra New Trinity Baroque in 1998 and is artistic director of the Belgrade Early Music Festival. Through the Belgrade Baroque Academy and New Belgrade Opera he has given the Serbian premieres of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo and L’incoronazione di Poppea and Handel’s Giulio Cesare, Orlando, Rinaldo, Alcina and Siroe, as well as the first period-instrument production of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas in Serbia, at the National Theatre in Belgrade in 2013. His L’Orfeo earned the UMUS Annual Award for the best concert of 2017. He has appeared as a guest conductor with the Belgrade Philharmonic, and his discography of eighteen albums includes three recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra at Abbey Road Studios.
Authorship
All text, the reconstructed score and the editorial orchestration on this site are by Predrag Gosta unless stated otherwise.