Predrag Gosta

Predrag Gosta is a London-based Serbian-born conductor, continuo player and singer, specialising in Baroque opera and historically informed performance. As Founder and Artistic Director of New Trinity Baroque, he has established an international reputation for combining performance, scholarship and artistic leadership and is recognised as one of the pioneers of the Early Music movement in Southeast Europe.

His work centres on Baroque and Classical opera, sacred music and orchestral repertoire, combining historically informed performance with a particular interest in musical dramaturgy, source studies and performance practice. Equally active as a conductor, harpsichordist and continuo player, he has directed numerous productions and concert performances of works by Monteverdi, Purcell, Handel and Mozart, with eighteenth-century opera forming a central focus of his artistic activity.

Gosta has collaborated with many distinguished figures in the Early Music world, including Andrew Lawrence-King, Adrian Butterfield, Steven Devine, Rachel Brown, Evelyn Tubb, Michael Fields, Florian Deuter, Simone Pirri, Bojan Čičić, Marcio da Silva, Sonia Prina and Vivica Genaux, among others. Alongside his work with New Trinity Baroque, he appears regularly as a guest conductor or continuo player with ensembles including Ensemble OrQuesta, Harmony of Time and La Notte.

Gosta established New Trinity Baroque in London in 1998 while undertaking postgraduate studies at Trinity College of Music. Under his direction, the ensemble has developed an international reputation for performances, recordings and research-led projects, combining scholarly rigour with vivid and engaging performance. He is also Artistic Director of the Belgrade Baroque Academy and founder of the Belgrade Early Music Festival (FERAM), where he has played a leading role in the development of historically informed performance in Southeast Europe through concerts, educational initiatives and international artistic collaborations.

An active recording artist, Gosta has made over a dozen CD recordings, including ten with New Trinity Baroque and two with the London Symphony Orchestra. His recordings and performances have received widespread critical acclaim – his production of Monteverdi's L'Orfeo received Best Concert Performance Award in Serbia for 2017, while Handel's Giulio Cesare in Egitto received the Best Opera Performance Award by the classical music magazine Muzika Klasika. His interpretations of Handel's operas have attracted critical recognition and several further distinctions for artistic excellence.

Alongside his performing career, Gosta holds three Master of Music degrees in vocal performance, choral conducting and orchestral conducting and pursued doctoral research in Musicology at the University of Oxford. His research examines the creation of English opera at the end of the eighteenth century through the works of Stephen Storace, exploring the relationship between historical sources, compositional practice and performance. As both performer and scholar, he is particularly interested in preparing new performing editions, reconstructing neglected repertoire and bringing archival research to life through historically informed performance.

Beyond his work in Early Music, Gosta has conducted orchestras and opera productions throughout the United Kingdom, the United States, Russia, Switzerland and his native Serbia, appearing with ensembles including the London Symphony Orchestra, the National Philharmonic (Washington, D.C.), the Russian National Orchestra, the St Petersburg State Capella Orchestra and the Belgrade Philharmonic. He is a member of the Royal Society of Musicians.