pianist
“His passion, both for music and within it, is convincing because it is focused, and inexhaustible because it is fed by a curiosity that has for years led him through different artistic worlds.”Sara Vrdoljak, musicologist
A Croatian pianist and chamber musician whose work takes shape at the intersection of the performing arts, the production of music and stage programmes, and innovative piano pedagogy.
He graduated in piano from the Academy of Music, University of Zagreb, in the class of Professor Filip Fak, and continued his studies within the Erasmus+ programme at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw in the class of Professor Konrad Skolarski. During and after his studies he worked with distinguished pianists and pedagogues, among them Arnulf von Arnim, Oliver Kern, Teppo Koivisto, Vladimir Krpan and Frank van de Laar. He is currently continuing his artistic training in the postgraduate programme of the Academy of Music, University of Zagreb, in the class of Professor Katarina Krpan.
He has received several international awards and distinctions, most notably the first prize and the title of laureate at the 11th International Piano Competition Festival of Pianism in Sremska Mitrovica in 2024, together with the special prize of the Rotary Club Sremska Mitrovica. In 2023, with soprano Josipa Gvozdanić, he won first prize at the 20th International Chamber Music Competition C. A. Seghizzi in Gorizia.
As a soloist he has appeared with the Karlovac Chamber Orchestra, the TAKT Chamber Orchestra and the Tamburitza Orchestra of the Academy of Music, University of Zagreb. He has collaborated with the Zagreb Philharmonic, the Cantus Ensemble, the Chopin University Modern Ensemble, the Ivan Filipović Chamber Choir and others. He has performed at the 57th Darko Lukić Forum and at festivals and concert series including Piccolo Opera Festival, Zagreb Music Spring, Crta za beskraj, Quinta Giusta, Glazba na kamenu, Continuo3 and Virtuoso. In May 2026, at the Academy of Music in Zagreb, he gave the first performance of Boris Papandopulo's Second Concerto for Piano and String Orchestra in an arrangement for tamburitza orchestra, with the Academy's Tamburitza Orchestra and conductor Matija Fortuna.
He has performed on concert stages in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Germany, Italy, Poland and Finland.
Alongside his artistic work he develops and produces music and stage programmes.
Since 2023 he has been executive producer of the Glazba na kamenu Classical Music Festival, organised by the Takt Association of Music Artists, whose founding and organisational set-up he helped bring about in 2022. Since the same year he has been project manager of the Ardea International Classical Music Seminar. In 2024 he worked as an expert associate in the production of the Music-Mission-Vision international festival of contemporary music at the Peščenica Culture Centre – KNAP. He is the author and leader of the project Chopin – Music Escape Room, realised in 2026 at the School of Art, Design, Graphics and Clothing in Zabok, in cooperation with the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Zagreb and the Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Youth. Together with Kajkaviana, the society for collecting, preserving and promoting Croatian Kajkavian heritage, and with the support of the Town of Donja Stubica, he initiated the Marijan Feller Musicians' Revue, a project dedicated to the memory of the Croatian pianist and long-standing professor at the Academy of Music in Zagreb, Marijan Feller.
He has built his path as a teacher step by step, working in a range of music schools and institutions.
Within the Erasmus+ programme, in the academic year 2022/2023, he worked at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw as an assistant at the Department of Composition and Music Theory in the class of Prof. Ignacy Zalewski, taking part in teaching and project activities. He has taught piano, répétiteur work and chamber music at the Karlovac Music School, the School of Art, Design, Graphics and Clothing in Zabok and the Music Inspire Factory music centre in Velika Gorica. In his teaching he cultivates an individual approach to developing each pupil's technical and interpretative abilities, and has gained particular experience working with children with developmental difficulties, including children on the autism spectrum.
