This concert, marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, presents works by women composers whose lives and creative output were shaped by wartime experience – Ilse Weber, Julija Weissberg, Else Beren, Henriëtte Bosmans, and Rosi Wertheim. The program functions simultaneously as an artistic and research endeavor, reconstructing works preserved only in fragments and reintegrating them into contemporary concert life.

The centenary of the Sukat Shalom Synagogue is commemorated through performances by the “Braća Baruh” Choir, the oldest active Jewish choir in the world, accompanied by organ and soloists. The program highlights the role of sacred music in preserving cultural identity and continuity, combining liturgical tradition with artistic performance.

The Corvina Consort ensemble from Budapest, led by Zoltán Kálmánovits, presents vocal music from the Middle Ages to the early Baroque. The program includes works by Orlando di Lasso, Philippe de Monte, Heinrich Isaac, and Salomone Rossi, interpreted through historically informed performance practice and contemporary musicological research.

The comic one-act opera The Telephone by Gian Carlo Menotti, enriched with an overture combining arrangements of American jazz standards and works by composers of Jewish origin from the 1950s. The performance unites humor, urban aesthetics, and the musical tradition of American jazz, offering a distinctive evening to conclude the festival.