Split Mandolin Quartet is a natural result of a years-long collaboration between Ivana Kenk Kalebić,
Sandra Katunarić, Dea Škorić and Stela Ivanišević, based in Split (Croatia).
What separates this quartet from the others is the fact they play original music written for mandolin,
which is less known to general public, but is of great importance for cultural preservation
and development of Dalmatia and the whole Mediterranean.
The quartet promotes all instruments from mandolin family, which includes mandola and liuto cantabile
(mandolocello), and they often include instruments which were a part of mandolin orchestras throughout history –
such as guitar, harp, and certain wind instruments.
Split mandolin quartet mostly plays original music, written for classic mandolin quartet
(2 mandolins,mandola,liuto
cantabile), and they put special emphasis on modern Croatian composers and Romanticism era –