Radovan Cavallin was born in Zagreb, Croatia in 1969. At the age of thirteen he was the youngest student ever to have entered the Academy of Music of Zagreb University obtaining a Diploma with distincion four years later. In 1986 he was chosen from 76 candidates to enter the Paris National Superior Conservatory of Music.…
Ivanka Kordić graduated in piano from the Academy of Music in Zagreb as an excellent student in the class of Professor Ivo Maček. She further refined her skills under Professor S. Neuhaus in Vienna. She spent her entire professional career at the Vatroslav Lisinski Music School in Zagreb, where she served as the head of…
Ivana ČrnjakACCORDION 20. – 25. 8. 2024. Ivana Črnjak finished the Accordion Study in 2000 at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Graz (Austria) in the class of renowned experts for the classical accordion James Crabb and Geir Draugsvoll. After graduating, she continued her postgraduate studies in the soloist class of professor James…
Ieva PranskuteVIOLIN August 26-30 2024 Ieva Pranskutė joined the Grammy award winning Kremerata Baltica, a chamber orchestra of musicians from the Baltic states led by the famous violinist Gidon Kremer since 2012. While touring in some of the most prestiges halls in the world, she has played with G. Kremer himself as well as other famous…
Petar ČulićGUITAR August 27-31 2024 Petar Čulić was born on 26 June 1986 in Split. He started learning the guitar at the age of seven, and his first teacher was Neno Munitić. He graduated from “Lovro pl. Matačić” Elementary School of Music in Omiš, and after finishing the third grade of “Josip Hatze” Secondary School…
Lovro PeretićGUITAR 25. – 30. 8. 2023. Lovro Peretić is an internationally award winning classical guitarist from Zagreb (Croatia). Lovro started studying guitar at a young age under tuition of prof. Xhevdet Sahatxhija in Zagreb. After that, he graduated with distinction at the Music academy in Zagreb in the class of prof. Darko Petrinjak spending…
Jelena Očić Jelena Očić The late Siegfried Palm, great interpreter of contemporary music, wrote of Jelena Očić, “she is one of the leading talents for contemporary music”. Bernard Greenhouse, founding cellist of the Beaux Arts Trio, said “I know no superior female cellist in her generation.” Jelena Očić was born in Zagreb, the capital of…
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…
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…
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…