Aljoša JurinićPIANO August 27 – 30 2024 Hailed as “a startlingly subtle and visionary pianist” with “a rare blend of charm and mastery”, Aljoša Jurinić has established himself on the international stage at the world’s preeminent piano competitions. Best known for winning the 2012 International Robert Schumann Competition in the composer’s hometown of Zwickau, he…
Margarita EscarpaGITARA 25.-28.8.2021. Margarita Escarpa began her guitar studies at the Real Conservatorio de Música de Madrid with some of Spain’s most distinguished teachers, receiving the highest possible honour, the Premio Extraordinario Fin de Carrera. She later worked with David Russell, Gerardo Arriaga and Miguel Angel Girollet and has taken part in many of Europe’s…
Maroje BrčićGITARA 20. – 24.8.2021. Maroje Brčić was born in Dubrovnik. He started learning to play the guitar at the age of 7 and his father, Stefanin Brčić, was his first teacher. He graduated high school in the class of prof. István Römer, and continued his studies at the Music Academy in Zagreb, where he…
Claudia ViscaVOICE August 18 – 23 2024 Born in New York, soprano Claudia Visca graduated from the acclaimed Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where she studied with Anna Moffo’s teacher, Eufemia Giannini. A Fulbright Scholarship took her to the Hochschule fur Musik Wien where she finished her education under the direction of Ks. Hilde…
Marco GrazianiVIOLIN 21. – 26. 8. 2024. MARCO GRAZIANI was born on 20 June 1988 in Rijeka, Croatia. From 1995-2000 he attended the Music School «Ivan Matetić Ronjgov» in Rijeka. In 2000, he started taking violin classes with Prof. Leonid Sorokow from the Vienna University of Music who later became his professor at the Zagreb…
Krešimir BedekGUITAR 22. – 26. 8. 2021. Krešimir Bedek graduated from the Zagreb Music Academy in the class of Darko Petrinjak and continued his studies in The Netherlands at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague where he gained master degree with Zoran Dukić. He has performed as a soloist, with orchestra and in various chamber…
Tobias StosiekCELLO 19. – 23. 8. 2024. Tobias Stosiek was born in Schwerin, Germany. He studied with prof. Tobias Kühne at the University of Music in Vienna, Austria. During his studies he participated in many masterclasses with cellists such as Daivid Geringas, Frans Helmerson and Mstislav Rostropovich. Stosiek won many prizes including: 1st prize at…
Nataša VeljkovićPIANO 19. – 23. 8. 2024. Born in Belgrade, Natasa Veljkovic lives and works in Vienna, where she holds an associate professorship for piano at the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts.Ever since she was four, her life has centred around the piano. After her studies with Professor Arbo Valdma in Belgrade, at…
Nenad MerleVIOLIN 20. – 28. 8. 2024. Prof. Adviser NENAD MERLE (Zagreb, 1956) graduated at the Music Academy in Zagreb under prof. Martin Barić. He was a violin and chamber music teacher for many years at Pavao Markovac Music school in Zagreb and was head of strings department. From 1988 to 1991 he served as…
Tomislav VukšićGUITAR 8. 2021. Tomislav Vukšić (Zagreb, 1980.) stekao je osnovno i srednje glazbeno obrazovanje u Glazbenoj školi Vatroslava Lisinskog u razredu Ratka Podvorca. Gitaru je diplomirao na Muzičkoj akademiji Sveučilišta u Zagrebu u razredu Darka Petrinjaka 2005., a dvije godine kasnije završio je poslijediplomski studij na Kraljevskom konzervatoriju u Den Haagu u razredu Zorana…