Ivana Marija Vidovich
Label: Blue Pie Productions
Artists Genre: Other
Ivana Marija Vidovich
Ivana Marija Vidovic was born in Dubrovnik. At the age
of four she started her piano studies at the Music
Conservatory in Dubrovnik. Her first teacher was L.
Cobenzl who was later succeeded by Vesna Miletic -
Corona.
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): Dubravka Tomsic -Srebotnjak (Ljubljana):
Alberto Portugheis (London): Eugen Indjic (Paris),
Stephen Kovacevich (London) had a great impact on Miss
Vidovic's playing and creative development.
In the last year Miss Vidovic was invited to study
with her beloved maestro, Lazar Berman (a legend in
the piano world), until his sudden death.
Several contemporary Slovenian composers have
dedicated to Ivana their compositions, notably Primož
Ramovš, Gregor Pirš, Žiga Stanič:, Croatian
composers Pero Šiša, Nikša Njirić: 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. In August
2006. she is invited to give recital at Dubrovnik
Summer Festival. Abroad she has appeared in Slovenia
(the small hall of Slovenska Filharmonia), Bosnia,
Montenegro, Italy, Spain, the United States and
Canada. In the UK she has played at the Regent Hall,
Steinway Hall and, in August 2005, at St
Martin-in-the- Fields – all in London. She performs
regularly with Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra and has
played under button of Ivo Dražinić:, Marko
Vatovec, Zlatan Srzić:, Tonko Ninić: etc.
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--a
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 book has been
translated into Italian and Slovenian, published under
the title «Sreč:no otroštvo» (Happy childhood) in
January, 2006. Ms Vidović: is fluent in many
languages.
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