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Ivana Marija Vidovic
-pianist-
Born in Dubrovnik into a family of mother and a brother musicians.
First contacts with music were a part of Ms Vidovic's life before she even learned
how to walk. Her mother is a music teacher at the school „Luka Sorkocevic“
in Dubrovnik where Ivana got her first education and her brother was a hyper
talented and versatile musician. The most common tounge of their childhood
was music.
At the age of four Ivana started her piano studies at the Music Conservatory in Dubrovnik. Her first teacher was L. Cobenzl who was later succeeded by Vesna Miletic. She completed her studies in 1991-1992 during the war in Croatia. She subsequently continued her studies at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana, Slovenia, with Tatjana Ognjanovich and graduated with honours in 2002.
During her student years Ivana performed frequently, giving two recitals in the U.S.A. (1990) and again with the Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra. She also gave concerts in Ljubljana and throughout Slovenia and Italy. Despite suffering a serious car accident in 1996 she pursued her musical studies and literary interests. In 1997 she returned to the Dubrovnik stage with the Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra and for her interpretation of the Mozart concerto in F-Major, KV 459, won the "France Preseren" award from the Academy of Ljubljana.
Meetings and work with Evgenij Timakin; Naum Starkmann (Moscow); Alberto Portugheis (with whom she appeared in a concert with Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra in 2005 as one of the soloists on the two pianos) and Eugen Indjic (Paris) had a great impact on Miss Vidovic's playing and creative development.
In the last year Miss Vidovic was invited to study with maestro Lazar Berman until his sudden death. Several contemporary Slovenian composers have dedicated to Ivana their compositions, notably Primo-- Ramov--, Gregor Pir--, --iga Stani--, Croatian composer Pero --i--a and English composer Peter Seabourne. Her passionate interpretation of all music gives Ivana her particular style and provides inspiration for any audience.
Miss Vidovich performs regularly in Croatia and abroad. Some of her most eminent concerts have been held at the Rector’s Palace and Revelin Fort in Dubrovnik and Glazbeni Zavod in Zagreb.Abroad she has appeared in Slovenia (the small hall of Slovenska Filharmonia), Bosnia, Montenegro, Italy, Spain, the United States, Canada and tured Argentina in 2006 with her debut in Buenos Aires organised by a Croatian Embassy in Argentina.
In the UK she has played at the Regent Hall, Steinway Hall and, in August 2005, at St Martin-in-the- Fields –, St James Piccadilly - all in London.
She performs regularly with Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra and has played under button of Ivo Dra--ini--, Tonko Nini--, Zlatan Srzi--, Marko Vatovec.
She had her Premiere appearence at the Dubrovnik Summer Festival in summer 2006 in collaboration with Pavel Berman (violin).
At the moment Miss Vidovic is ocasionally studying with Alicia De Larrocha in Barcelona who describes Ms Vidovic like this:
"young pianist with great natural instinct, a beautiful musicality, lovely desire to express herself artistically, with taste, poetry and extroversion…"
In addition to being a musician, Ivana has been writing poetry since her early youth. In 2003 she published her first book of poetry in Croatian rich, resonating selection, representative of her works. Ivana's poems express the variety and intensity of her literary experience, encompassing youthful and vividly picturesque verses, to deeply personal love poems and haunting laments. The same has been translated into Italian and Slovenian, published under the title "Sre--no otro--tvo" (Happy childhood) in January, 2006. In September 2006 Miss Vidovic will publish a new book dedicated to Dora Peja--evi-- under the title a "Flower’s life", after the same named cycle of miniatures for piano, op. 19, by Dora Peja--evi--. This book will be sponsored by Pejacevic’s native town, Na--ice, in Northern Croatia and is translated into four languages. In May 2007. her first book of poetry will be published in Italy (Akkuaria Edition) under the title "Infanzia felice" in Italian language.
Ms Vidovic is the creator and the artistic director of the Epidaurus Festival in Cavtat, Croatia.Last update, August, 2007.
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