The Porin String Quartet was established in 1998 within Prof. Mladen Sedak's chamber music class at the Music Academy in Zagreb. Apart from their work at the Academy, the Quartet has also actively participated in master classes held by Valter Dešpalj and by string quartets such as Amadeus, Alban Berg, Bartók, Janáček, Smetana and the Prague Quartet. They soon started achieving success in concerts held around Croatia, as well as in Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Italy, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, and Argentina. The Quartet represented Croatian music at the Expo 2000 in Hannover and were invited the same year by the Austrian Contemporary Music Society to participate in a concert of young Austrian composers in Vienna, when they appeared in the Salzburg Mozarteum. Apart from performing in festivals such as the Zagreb Music Biennale and the Dubrovnik Summer Games, the Quartet has also been organizing its own concert series since 2006 in which they collaborate with numerous Croatian musicians. They have won numerous national awards. The Quartet members are: violinists Ivan Novinc and Tamara Petir, violist Lucija Brnadić and cellist Neva Begović.