Miroslav Martinjak
Miroslav Martinjak is a Croatian organist, liturgist, composer, arranger, church musician, Catholic priest and university professor. He is among the most prominent Croatian contemporary composers of liturgical choral music, influenced by Croatian liturgical tradition and Gregorian chant. He is also regens chori of the Zagreb Cathedral.
Biography
He was born on 4 August 1951 in Gornja Voća, where he attended elementary school. He graduated theology in 1976 at the Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb. The same year he is ordained as a priest. After two years of pastoral service in Samobor, he studied sacral music at the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music in Rome, receiving a master's degree in Gregorian chant and bachelor's degrees in sacral composition and organs.Martinjak is a member of the Committee for Liturgy of the Croatian Bishops' Conference and Conferénce Européenne des Associations de Musique d’Église. He was the president of the Institute for sacral music in Zagreb and, since 2001, the editor-in-chief of the liturgical magazine "Sveta Cecilija".
Works
Music works
Hrvatska misa za troglasni zbor i orgulje, 1989Misa za troglasni mješoviti zbor, 1989Misa brevis, 2005Misa novorođenom kralju, 2005Scientific papers
Gregorijansko pjevanje baština i vrelo rimske liturgije, Zagreb, 1997.Orguljska pratnja gregorijanskih napjevaGregorijanska nadahnuća: Muke po Mateju, Marku, Luki i Ivanu- ''Liturgijske skladbe u glazbenom prilogu časopisa sv. Cecilija''