Ermir Krantja Conductor – "Merited Artist" / "Naim Farsheri i Arte" International Academic Award – "Ylli i Arte" He was born in Tirana on March 6, 1947. He is the son of the well-known conductor and People's Artist, Mustafa Krantja, student and assistant of V. Talich at the Academy of Music in Prague, the first conductor who founded the Institute of Orchestration in Albania after the war. In addition to other musical activities, he has also conducted the orchestra for the recording of music for about 25 Albanian feature films. Ermir Krantja grew up and was educated as a child under the influence of Czech and Slovak culture. He graduated in violin at the Tirana high school under the guidance of G. Bogdo, and successfully completed his studies in solfege with professor S. Gjoni. He also studied orchestra conducting, conducting under his father's advice, as well as musicology orchestration at the Academy of Arts. He graduated in 1970 with the highest grades obtained at the Academy of Arts, earning the position of conductor of the Albanian Radio Television Orchestra, from where he performed various artistic activities, conducting concerts and recordings. 
From 1975 to 1979, he took the place of conductor of the Shkodra Symphony Orchestra, while in In 1979 he was appointed director of the Theater and Opera Orchestra in Tirana and at the same time he was also a professor of music and conducting at the Academy of Arts. In v. In 1974, he received an award at the "May Concerts". In 1985, he was awarded the title "Honored Artist" by the Republic of Albania. 
In 1989, he was among a selection of the best conductors at a RAI event in Turin, having a meeting and exchange of ideas with other conductors such as Carlo Maria GIULINI, Raffael FRUEHBEC DE BURGOS and Ferdinand LEITNER. Since 1990, Ermir Krantja's concerts have been numerous, even international in France, Macedonia, and even far away in California, USA. A-se with "Tulary Symphony Orchestra". In 1993, he made a tour with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Tirana in various cities in Italy. 1995 he directs the "due Mondi" Festival in Spoleto. He records for RAI and Mediaset (Canale5), in collaboration with "Czeck National Symphony orchestra (Prague)", respectively the soundtracks of the "fiction" serial film "Giorni da Leone 2" and "Questa e la mia terra", with the music of Savio Riccardi, and by making a CD through RTISpAdivisione Cinema Ermir Krantja has collaborated with these instrumentalists: Ilia Grubert, Kiell Backellund, Antoine Rebstain, Marcello Abbado, Rita Kinka, Antonio Di Cristofano, Enzo Caroli, Kemal Ghekič, Hylia Saidam, Fedele Antonicelli, Nicola Pascaloff, Boni Sozuar, Ted Papavrami, Sihana Badivuku, Renato Ripo, Suela Mullaj, England Hasa, with singers such as Simon Thorpe, Biondine Staskewič, Kristina Hawthorne, Inva Mula, Giuseppe Gipali, Mirko Palazzi, Frano Lufi, Luca Favaron , Milena Kitič, Georgeta Grigore, Susan Miller, Ivizza Sciarič, Stephanie Park, Lacezar Lazarov, Blagoja Nikolovski, Biser Georgiev, Annastassia N. Muhič, Silvana Kotlenko, Stefan Zvetkov ecc. Among many others, he has a very wide lyrical repertoire, which are: Traviata, Rigoletto, Trovatore, Manon Lescaut (Puccini), Tosca e Turandot, Barbiere di Siviglia, Carmen, Pescatori di Perle, Cavalleria Rusticana, Pagliacci, Le nozze di Figaro , Cosi fan tutte etc. An endless number of symphonic vocal songs such as: Handel – Messiah, Mozart – Requiem, Carl Orff – Carmina Burana, J. Brahms – Requiem Tedesco, G. Rossini – Stabat Mater, L. van Beethoven – Messa Solenne, G. Verdi – Requiem etc. 
Ermir Krantja has managed to cooperate with these orchestras: the Theater and Opera Orchestra in Tirana, the Albanian Radio-Television Orchestra, the Shkodra Philharmonic, the Philharmonic of the Academy of Fine Arts in Tirana, the Czech Symphony Orchestra (Prague), the Radio – Television of Pristina (Kosovo), Orchestra "Nova Amadeus" (Rome), Philharmonic of Skopje and Orchestra of the Opera Theater of Macedonia, of Ankara in Turkey, of Lece in Italy, of that in California, of Bar "la Camerata" G. Paisiello", with the Kosovo Philharmonic, the chamber in Pula and Basilicata, with the Sofia Orchestra in Bulgaria, etc. He holds the title "Naim Frasheri i Arte" for his long and excellent career. On April 24, 2013 "honoris causa" is awarded "Ylli i Arte", the International Academic Award. He currently lives in Italy. _______________ Albanian cinematography in activity since 2013 Reference: Text and photos from the official website of the great artist / conductor Ermir Krantja. / Published for the first time since March 2020 "Albanian Cinema" – Facebook.
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