Papandopulo Quartet consists of four Croatian saxophone players, all of them
graduates of the Music Academy in Zagreb. They continued their education at
Conservatoires in Paris, Amsterdam and Vienna as well as on the masterclasses held by world renowned saxophone players. Quartet performs regularly on many festivals in Croatia and abroad and has accomplished a remarkable series of more then 200 performances from the year 2008 until now.
They cooperate regularly with Zagreb Soloists, Amstel Quartet, Mobilis Quartet, Zagreb Quartet, Zagreb Saxophone Quartet, pianists Ivan Batoš and Linda Mravunac-Fabijanić and also with eminent soloists like Arno Bornkamp, Jean-Denis Michat, Jean-Yves Fourmeau, Lars Mlekusch, Bruno Phillip and others.
Quartet’s performances have been described in superlatives by the critics.
Trpimir Matasović wrote in the magazine "Zarez": "Stars of the evening were the members of the Papandopulo Quartet, the ensemble which, with its superb music but also extraordinary dedication, was the best thing that could happen to composers."
Special attention has been given to a promotion of new music therefore they have premiered more then 20 new pieces dedicated to Papandopulo Quartet, without neglecting the classical music of the past centuries.
Members of the quartet are also engaged in pedagogical work teaching at
Music Academies in Zagreb, Split, Sarajevo and Novi Sad, music schools in Zagreb and Jastrebarsko, working as teachers on the workshops in Croatia and abroad. Together they founded School of Saxophone in Jaska, a highly successful international spring masterclass for saxophone students that won annual City of Jastrebarsko Award.
Their discography consists of 3 albums, recorded for Croatia Records:
Papandopulo (2013.), Per Quattro (2015.) and Scherzo (2017.) and their debut album won Porin prize and it is a best selling Croatian classical album in the last decade. In 2019. Papandopulo Quartet won a Diploma Milka Trnina for their highly successful project “We’ll take 2000 seconds of Your life” produced by Showroom of Contemporary Sound Festival in Zagreb. In the same year Quartet won 1st prize at the 3rd Berliner International Music Competition and made it’s Berlin Philharmonie debut in October of 2019.
