Miroslav Martinjak

Miroslav Martinjak is a Croatian organist, liturgist, composer, arranger and university professor. He is the most prominent Croatian contemporary composer of liturgical choral music, influenced by Croatian liturgical tradition (Dugan, Vidaković, Klobučar etc.) 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 in 1976 at the University of Zagreb. The same year he is ordained as a priest. After two years of pastoral service in Samobor, he studied sacral music in Rome, receiving a master's degree in Gregorian chant and bachelor's degrees in sacral composition ("Compozicione sacra") and organs ("Organo liturgico").
Martinjak is a member of the Committee for Liturgy of the Croatian Bishops' Conference (since 1992) and Conferénce Européenne des Associations de Musique d’Église (since 1995). He was the president of the Institute for sacral music in Zagreb (1996-2012) and, since 2001, the editor-in-chief of the liturgical magazine "Sveta Cecilija" ("Saint Cecilia").