Tina Horvat, trumpet

completed her primary music education in Čakovec with prof. Vjeran Vidović (2006), and the High School of Music in Varaždin with prof. Darko Navoj (2010). He then enrolled at the Music Academy in Zagreb with Assoc. Marin Zokić (2010). She participated in the regional competition organized by HDGPP held in Bjelovar in 2010, where she won 1st prize. She won the 2nd prize at the National Competition for Music and Dance Students. In 2012, he won the 3rd prize at the Petar Konjović International Trumpet Competition in Belgrade. In 2013 she was a finalist in the Croatian competition of young music artists Papandopulo, and in 2014 she won the 1st prize at the Davorin Jenko International Trumpet Competition and was declared a laureate. That same year, she received a gold plaque at the Svirel International Competition. She has collaborated with the Zagreb Philharmonic and the Croatian National Theater Orchestra. As a student, through auditions, she gets the opportunity to perform solo with the accompaniment of professional orchestras in Croatia. In 2013, she performed with the wind orchestra of the Croatian Armed Forces, and in 2014 the Zagreb Philharmonic. She has participated in several seminars held by professors: Marin Zokić, Reinhold Friedrich, Rex Richardson, Stanko Arnold, Laura Vukobratović, Guido Segers, Sergio Carstea, Sebastian Gil Armas, Yigal Meltzer…
Since 2018 she is the principal solo trumpet player of the Rijeka Opera and Philharmonic.

Aleksandar Arsic, trumpet

ALEKSANDAR ARSIĆ (Beograd, 1983) completed his master and specialist studies at the Faculty of Music Arts in Belgrade. He further continued his education with Maurice André in Zurich at a Summer academy in 2005 and 2006 and has attended numerous seminars with recognized soloists and pedagogues. He has won over twenty awards at domestic and international competitions (Concours Europen d'Interpretation Musicale, Jeunesses Musicales, and Concours de Musica Benidorm). As a soloist, he has performed since he was sixteen years old, playing 20 solo recitals and several times as a soloist accompanied by the Sarajevo Philharmonic and the Montenegrin Symphony Orchestra. He is a member of the New Trinity Baroque ensemble, where he plays the baroque trumpet. He has participated in festivals such as BEMUS, BELEF, A Tempo, Mokranjac Days, Sarajevo Winter, and KotorArt. He has performed in France, Italy, Spain, Austria, Hungary, Switzerland, and America.
In 2008, he has was named a soloist and the principal trumpet of the Montenegrin Symphony Orchestra and collaborates as a freelance member with the No Borders Orchestra, and the Busina Brass Quintet.

Vinko Rozic, horn

born in 1982 in Bjelovar. He completed his horn studies at the Music Academy in Zagreb in the class of prof. Stjepan Mateić. During his studies he also collaborated with prof. Boštjan Lipovšek from Ljubljana, and through seminars with prominent soloists and horn professors such as Hermann Baumann, Miklos Nagy, Radovan Vlatković, and Eric Penzel.
From 2004 to 2019 he was the soloist of the orchestra of the Opera of the Croatian National Theater Ivan pl. Zajc in Rijeka at the 1st horn, and since 2019 he has been a member of the orchestra of the Opera of the Croatian National Theater in Zagreb. He became a collaborative member of the Busina Brass Quintet in 2020.

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