The CROATIAN MILITARY ORCHESTRA is a representative orchestra of the Republic of Croatia, founded in 1991. Besides performing the protocol tasks,  the orchestra has performed various concerts within the framework of the Concert Season in the Concert Hall "Vatroslav Lisinski" in Zagreb. The main part of the repertoire is made up of original compositions for wind instruments, and special notice is given to the first performances of the Croatian composers as well as the Croatian first performances of the pieces which are part of world's heritage. The orchestra is composed of the young academic musicians, and besides the Concert Band, there are also various Chamber Ensembles , Brass Band , Big Band , and Marching Band . Besides the chief conductor Tomisav Fačini and the former chief conductor Mladen Tarbuk , the orchestra has been led by many respected conductors, where as many eminent Croatian and foreign soloists have performed with the orchestra. The cooperation with other Croatian  musical ensembles is customary. Besides the concerts during the concert season, the orchestra has performed at various Croatian summer festivals (Zagreb, Dubrovnik, Zadar, Osor, Krk, Hvar), at Varaždin BaroqueEvenings and Music bienalle Zagreb , and it took part in eucharistic festivities during  the visit of the Pope John Paul II to Zagreb in 1995. Worth mentioning are also the guest performances in Lourdes, Budapest, and at the Moscow autumn festival . Besides many recordings for the Croatian Broadcast, the orchestra has recorded 2 CDs - Božićni san and Hrvatske mise (A. Klobučar: Papinska misa and F. pl. Lučić: Missa Jubilaris ) and the CD Povijesne hrvatske koračnice (Croatian historical marches) is being prepared.