Goran Filipec (Piano)
Goran Filipec, one of the most
distinguished Croatian pianists whose interpretations have been described
as “... powerful and subtle in exact degrees,
with an infinite capability of phrasing and poetical deepening
in the most tremendous passages...” (Pablo
Kohan, La Naciуn, Buenos Aires) or “... brilliant
and refined...” (Edith Eisler, New York Concert Review),
was born in 1981 in Rijeka, where he obtained his
primary and secondary musical education at the Ivan Matetich Ronjgov
School of Music. From 1997 to 2001 he studied piano
(under Marina Ambokadze) and musicology at the Ino Mirkovich
Music Academy in Lovran under license of the Moscow State
Tchaikovsky Conservatoire. His subsequent education included postgraduate
studies at the Hochschule fьr Musik Kцln (under Arbo
Valdma, 2003-2004), the Schola Cantorum in Paris
(under Eugen Indjic, 2003-2006), the Zagreb Academy of Music
(under Evgeny Zarafiants, 2006-2007), the Oxana Yablonskaya Piano
Institute in Castelnuovo di Garfagnana in Italy
and at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire
(under Natalia Trull). His concert engagements have taken him
to Carnegie Hall in New York, the Auditorium di Milano,
the National Concert Hall in Dublin, the Thйвtre du Chвtelet
in Paris, the Bйla Bartуk National Concert Hall in Budapest and
numerous other concerts venues in Switzerland, France, Italy,
the Netherlands, Argentina, Croatia and other nations
of the former Yugoslavia. Goran Filipec
has been a prize-winner at several competitions including
the International Franz Liszt Piano Competition (Premio Mario Zanfi, Parma,
Italy, 2011), the Concours international
de piano d’Оle-de-France (2011), the Concurso
de Parnassуs (Mexico, 2010), the Josй Iturbi International Music
Competition (California, 2009) and the Gabala International Piano
Competition (Azerbaijan 2009). He has performed with several
renowned orchestras, among them the Moscow Symphony Orchestra,
the Berliner Symphoniker, the Orchestra del Teatro Reggio
di Parma, the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, the Ushuaia
Philharmonic Orchestra, the Rijeka Opera Symphony Orchestra,
the Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra and the Croatian Chamber Orchestra
under the batons of Jorge Uliarte, Vjekoslav Љutej, Leonid
Nikolaev, Pavle Deљpalj, Matteo Pagliari and other renowned conductors.
His performances have been recorded and broadcast
by Croatian National Television and Radio, Radio Suisse Romande and several
Argentinean television and radio stations.
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