Artistic director of the HRT Children's Choir, Tomislav Fačini

Tomislav Fačini (Zagreb, 1975) graduated cum laude  from the Zagreb Academy of Music with a degree in conducting. 

The same year he won second place and a special prize at the International Antonio Pedrotti Competition for Orchestra Conductors in Trento. He continued his studies at the Hans Swarowsky  Academy in Milan and the Hochschule für Musik in Karlsruhe. He is a full professor at the Conducting, Harp and Percussion Department of the Academy of Music in Zagreb. 

From 1994 to 2008, he was the director of the Oratorio Choir of the Church of St. Mark in Zagreb, from 2003 to 2009 he was the Chief Conductor of the Croatian Army Orchestra, from 2006 to 2009 artistic Director of the Music Evenings at the Church of St. Donatus in Zadar and from 2014 to 2017 Chief Conductor of the Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra. Since the 2017/2018 season, he has been the Artistic Director of the HRT Choir, in charge of the Sfumato and Kanconijer  series. 

Mr Fačini was also Assistant to Dubrovnik Summer Festival’s Artistic Director for music program and is Artistic Director of the Antiphonus Ensemble. His conducting activity has been equally focused on both concerts and operas. He was a guest at many festivals in neighboring countries and at almost all Croatian festivals. He has conducted a number of first modern performances of works by old Croatian masters and premiered many new pieces, promoting Croatian music. Mr Fačini has been performing with numerous Croatian ensembles, and with the HRT and RTV-Slovenia Symphony Orchestras he has made recordings for CDs, film and phonoarchives. He regularly conducts the International Youth Orchestra from Neumarkt. In addition to conducting, he is also engaged in composing and music arrangement. 

He is the recipient of the Jurica Murai  award for the best artistic interpretation at the 51st Varaždin Baroque Evenings (2021) and the Milka Trnina  award of the Croatian Society of Music Artists for 2021. In both cases, he led the Choir of HRT.