The Lovro & Lilly Matačić Foundation was founded in 1987 according to the will of both, with an aim to improve the skill of exceptionally gifted young conductors, in Croatia and abroad.

The Foundation has been constituted as a non-profit association, performing its basic tasks on two levels: by providing annual grants (supports) to a certain number of candidates and protégés and by organizing an outstanding international competition of young conductors every four years.

Regarding the grants, which are based on documents submitted and in compliance with decisions of the Jury of Experts, selected candidates and protégés receive financial and other support for various types of professional training and improvement, i.e. a kind of professional sponsorship that may be extended over a longer period of time. In this regard, up until now the Foundation has encouraged and provided scholarships to a number of talented Croatian conductors, extending to them individual and depending on actual circumstances selected support in starting their careers.

Being the organizer of the Lovro von Matačić International Competition of Young Conductors, the Lovro & Lilly Matačić Foundation by initiating this care for a new generation of conductors, aims to bring the scope of a large international movement, which shall, by its reputation and influence in the contemporary world of music, add a new significance to the Artist whose name it bears. The Foundations aims at the same time, along with its other documentary and promotional activities to sustain and uphold the continuity and vitality of the spiritual heritage of its founder in the best way.

THE MOST SIGNIFICANT RESULTS DURING THE FIRST 23 YEARS OF FOUNDATION ACTIVITIES

* Programmes of support for participation in international competitions, scholarships for studying and training in Croatia and abroad, incentives for engaging young conductors in certain projects of Croatian orchestras, training and courses with prominent conductors.

* 1st International Competition of Young Conductors Lovro von Matačić, Zagreb, 1995

* Monograph “Matačić” authored by Eva Sedak, Ph.D., Zagreb, 1996

* 2nd International Competition of Young Conductors Lovro von Matačić, Zagreb, 1999

* 3rd International Competition of Young Conductors Lovro von Matačić, Zagreb, 2003

* Documentary exhibition about the life and work of Lovro von Matačić (author Eva Sedak, Ph.D.) staged in

Zagreb in 1999 and subsequently in Rijeka, Dubrovnik, Split, Omiš, Ljubljana, Nova Gorica, Čakovec, Osijek, Vienna, Trieste, Maribor, Skopje, Prague, Zadar, Sarajevo, Mostar, Varaždin, Berlin, Linz and Budapest.

* 4th International Competition of Young ConductorsLovro von Matačić, Zagreb, 2007