Filip Merčep (Samobor, 1991) distinguished himself in the music scene thanks to his performance with The ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by C. Meister in the finals of Eurovision Young Musicians in 2010. The event, after which he gained the attention of the public as well as of the music experts, took place in front of Rathaus in Vienna and was attended by 45 thousand people. He graduated with honours in percussions from the Academy of Music in Zagreb with Prof. I. Lešnik on the recital which consists of contemporary composers’ works in 2015. He has been present in the Croatian music scene since he was a student and has thereby performed at almost every prominent festival (Dubrovnik Summer Festival, Osor Musical Evenings, Music Biennale Zagreb, the Zadar Summer Theatre Festival, Šibenik Summer Festival, Split Summer Festival). He has made solo appearances with most of Croatian orchestras (Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Croatian Radiotelevision Symphony Orchestra, Croatian Armed Forces’ Orchestra) and has received numerous awards such as Ivo Vuljević Award of Croatian Musical Youth for the best young musician, Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra Award, City of Samobor Award, Yamaha scolarship Award and Porin in the category “best interpretation of classical music”. Filip has also performed on the Bad Ragaz Festival of Chamber Music in Switzerland and on Molyvos International Music Festival in Greece. He is a member of Sudar Percussion Ensamble with which he recorded the album Eat Suit as well as of the Marimba Quartet with Katarzyna Mycka who was his first marimba role model and is now his colleague and mentor. Promoting Croatian music plays an important role in his career. Filip was awarded the Rector’s Award of the University of Zagreb for his interpretation of Concert for percussions and orchestra by Igor Lešnik and Franz Cibulka with Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra in Concert Hall Vatroslav Lisinski and Concert for Xylophone and String orchestra by Boris Papandopulo with Croatian Radiotelevision Symphony Orchestra.

Programme:
J. S. Bach, B. Wahlund, I. Xenakis & C. C. Lin

Objava Marimba concert with Filip Merčep pojavila se prvi puta na Youngmasters.

Milica Zulus and Nataša Veljković are going to play in Master concerts cycle on Thursday, August 25th in the Concert Hall of Ferdo Livadić Music School at 8 pm.

Milica Zulus (Vienna, 1999) began playing the violin when she was only four years old and by the age of six she was already taking lessons with Marina Sorokowa in the class for specially gifted children at the University for Music in Vienna. She has been a regular concert pianist student with Gerhard Schluz at the University for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna since August 2015. Aside from University in Vienna, she graduated from the Music Gymnasium Kosta Manojlović in Zemun (Belgrade). She won the first prize when she was seven years old at the Prima la Musica competition, which she won three other times as well. Encouraged by the excellent result, she attended the International Competition Alfredo e Vanda Marcosig of Gorizia the following year, where she also won the first prize (2008) and she won the Music Juventius Award (2013) She participated in masterclasses with Vadim Gluzman, Zakhar Bron and Maja Jokanović in Belgrade. Thanks to many performances across Europe, Milica is already known to the public. She held her first solo concert in Belgrade with Camerata Serbica in Sava Centre led by Aleksandar Pavlovič. She performed in the same city at the Academy of Science and in the Kolarac Endowment concert hall, where she performed within many concerts and festivals. She performed within the Chopin Festival in Gaming (Austria), the Vladimir Spivakov International Charity Foundation at the Moscow theatre Stanislavski, the Italian theatre in Malibran, the Croatian Music Institute, the Salzburg Mozarteum and at Vienna concert halls. She participated as a soloist in Bratislava in the performance of the J. S. Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins in D-minor with the Academy Chamber Orchestra led by Jack Martin Handler.

Nataša Veljković (Belgrade, 1968) expressed interest in piano when she was four years old and when she was ten she won awards at international competitions in Italy. After studying in Belgrade with Prof. Arbo Valdma, she studied at the Music University in Vienna, where she graduated with honours in 1987 with Paulo Baudur-Skode. After getting her first diploma she continued her studies at the Julliard School in New York with Prof. Rudolf Firkunsy and later at the Geneva Conservatory with Prof. Harry Datyner. Nataša’s concert career began to be incredibly succesful after winning the piano competition in Vevey in 1985 and she performed with many conductors (L. Foster, D. Kitajenko, M. Viotti, D. Shalon, E. Tabakov, M. Sieghart, R. Zollman etc.), orchestras (Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Dušan Skovran String Orchestra, Zagreb Soloist, Orchestra RAI) and ensambles. Her long lasting collaboration with the esamble Camerata Janáček particularly stands out as she recorded three Haydn’s piano concertos with them. The pianist is very succesful in the area of phonographic industry. She received excellent international critics reviews for two compact discs (one is with the work of W. A. Mozart and the other of F. Liszt) which she recorded for the Vienna Zulu Records. In the Gramola edition she published a disc with Robert and Clara Schumann works and she recorded the complete Heinrich and Elisabeth von Herzogenberg opus on compact discs for CPO in 2012. Two years later, she recorded the complete work of Dora Pejačević.

Program:
L.v. Beethoven, H. Vieuxtemps, N. Paganini, D. Pejačević, H. Wieniawski

Objava Concert of Milica Zulus,violin and Nataša Veljković,pianist on the Concert Hall of Ferdo Livadić Music School pojavila se prvi puta na Youngmasters.

Dušan Sretović is going to play in Youngmasters Excellent cycle on Wednesday, August 24th in the Concert Hall of Ferdo Livadić Music School at 8 pm.

Dušan Sretović (Belgrade, 1995) is a piano student at the University of Music and Performing Art in Vienna. He completed primary and secondary music school ‘Josip Slavenski’ in the class of the professor Maja Vuković. Dušan completed both instrumental and theoretical departments. He participated in many competitions where he received numerous awards among which the main award at the international competitions the Memorial Dr. V.Vučković (2011) and Davorin Jenko (2014). He was also pronounced the laureate of the competition ‘Josip Slavenski’ in Novi Sad (2009, 2010) and at the homonymous competition in Belgrade (2012). He perfected his knowledge attending the master courses by the professors A. Valdma, Đ. Milojković, I. Lasko, M. Popović and N. Veljković. He performed in every hall of Belgrade’s music school, in Novi Sad’s music schools ‘Josip Slavenski’ and ‘Isidor Bajić’ and in the halls of Student Cultural Centre (SKC), Belgrade Philharmonic, Kolarac Foundation and the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU). He performed in Ub, Smederevo and Kragujevac as a participant of the concert cycle entitled Chopin Fest Echoes, a part of Belgrade Chopin Fest which presents awarded young pianists. He performed solo recitals in the Gallery of Ilija M. Kolarac the Gallery of SANU and in Geneve in 2014 organised by Serbian Cultural Society. He also performed at the annual assembly of the Organisation of Serbian Students Abroad (OSSI) in the White Palace and at the closing of BUNT festival. As one of the youngest participants he played at the promotion of talented students of the University of Music and Performing Art in Vienna. Dušan is also a member of the piano duo Mozartkugeln which was pronounced laureate of all categories at the National ‘Competition for Piano Duos’ in 2010.

Objava Dušan Sretović’s recital in the Concert Hall of Ferdo Livadić Music School pojavila se prvi puta na Youngmasters.

Objava Youngmasters INFO DESK pojavila se prvi puta na Youngmasters.

Youngmasters Excellent cycles opens guitarist Antun Iveković on Tuesday, August 23rd in the Atrium of Livadić Café at 8.30 pm.

Antun Iveković graduated guitar at the Academy of Music in Zagreb in 2016. with István Römer. His musical education began at Elementary School Rudolf Matz with Predrag Krajnović and he graduated guitar at Music School Pavao Markovac with Danko Jukić. He has won the third (2005.), second (2009.) and first (2011.) prize at the State Competition of Music Students. He has won first prizes at international competitions Nikšić Guitar Festival in Montenegro and Fernardo Sor in Rome, where he also received a special prize Carla Minen for the best interpretation of a Fernardo Sor composition. He had won the Dean’s prize of the Academy of Music in Zagreb twice and for the performance of Boris Papandopulo’s Three Games, within the 49. Darko Lukić Award, he had won the Croatian Composers’ Society Award for the best performed piece by a Croatian author. He held many solo recitals through Croatia and abroad and as a member of the Zagreb Guitar Quartet he is active in chamber music, with which he had won the first prize at the International Guitar Competition Mercatali of Gorizia, in the category of chamber ensembles. He participated in guitar masterclasses with well respected pedagogues such as Zoran Dukić, Paolo Pegoraro, Dejan Ivanović and Álvaro Pierri.

Programme:
J. S. Bach, B. Papandopulo, I. Albéniz &Antonio José

Objava Antun Iveković plays in the Atrium of Livadić Café pojavila se prvi puta na Youngmasters.

Objava Hello world! pojavila se prvi puta na Youngmasters.

Dear Sirs,
In the upcoming summer, Youngmasters will once again bring together young lecturers and musicians of international reputation.
Every season introduces a new project. Besides guitar, clarinet nd violin, the cello sounds will resound throughout Samobor at the end of August. At the initiative of our cellist Jelena Šarić, two remarkable Viennese musicians will be our guests. The cello masterclass will be led by professor Tobias Stosiek while the distinctive secrets of piano art will be revealed through the lessons of the brilliant Nataša Veljković. For the first time, one of the best Croatian violin teachers, professor Nenad Merle, will honor us with his presence.

The next novelty is a chamber music for various ensembles that will be held as a separate masterclasses. This also includes the possibility to participate in the project named Chamber music with Petrit and the Samobor String Quartet. It is directed to those young students who are mature enough to recognize this special opportunity of musical advancement.

This year’s novelty is not only the choice of instruments, but also the expert, artistic and educational facilities offered to the participants and their teachers. In addition to the existing methods of teaching, such as individual lessons, chamber and orchestral music, sectional rehearsals, there are also daily group topics interesting and useful to all participants.

Through integrating professional performers amongst those who are at the beginning of their career, Youngmasters offers the oportunity to discover new acoustic and inspiring capabilities. Daily “short form” concerts with prominent musical artists in the festival’s part of  youngmasters, will enrich every student’s culture of music and make their sojourn in Samobor completely fullfilled.

Eventually, through the final performances, each student will take part in this festival of music celebration. The fifth season of Youngmasters means a small jubilee. In Samobor – a baroque Croatian town lauded in poetry and favored by the artist for its charming and idyllic setting.

Welcome!

Vesna Faullend Heferer, artistic director

Objava Youngmasters 2015. pojavila se prvi puta na Youngmasters.

Youngmasters Summer School 2011. photographs

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Objava Youngmasters 2011. pojavila se prvi puta na Youngmasters.

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Objava Samobor City pojavila se prvi puta na Youngmasters.