The Catholic Faculty of Theology and the Academy of Arts of the University of Split are organizing an international scientific-artistic symposium "Ivan Lukačić, Kapelnik of the Split Cathedral" (on the occasion of the 400 Anniversary of the publication of Sacrae Cantiones collection) which will be held from 12th to 14th November 2020 in the hall of the Split Archdiocesan Seminary and the Cathedral of St. Duje.
The scientific part of the program will bring together eminent experts who will unite and connect numerous aspects of Lukačić's work from different perspectives, as well as the importance of this composer in both national and European musical history. Music workshops will be held in the Cathedral of St. Duje under the guidance of domestic and foreign artists. At the end of the symposium, a CD of 27 Lukačić's motets performed by the international ensemble MUSICA ADRIATICA will be presented.
The symposium is open to the general public with respect to epidemiological measures.
Fra Ivan Lukačić (Šibenik, c. 1585 - Split, September 20, 1648), was the kapelnik (choirmaster) of the Split Cathedral and guardian of the monastery of St. Francis on the coast, where he is buried next to Marko Marulić. Lukačić was an early Baroque composer who 400 years ago (1620-2020) printed his collection of songs Sacrae cantiones in Venice, his only surviving collection of compositions, found in the Jagiellonian Library in Kraków, Poland.