OFFICIAL PIANO ACCOMPANISTS

Pianist and harpsichordist Linda Mravunac Fabijanić works as a soloist and chamber musician. Her repertoire includes compositions from the High Renaissance and Baroque periods to recent literature. She has premiered works by many contemporary Croatian composers (D. Bobić, P. Obradović, F. Horvat, D. Palanović, F. Đurović, G. Tudor, M. Ivičević). As a soloist, she has performed with the Croatian Radio and Television Choir, Zagreb Soloists, Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Papandopulo Quartet, Croatian Baroque Ensemble, Varaždin Chamber Orchestra, etc. and she also collaborates with other soloists, ensembles and orchestras. She regularly performs in the Ars longa ensemble and in a duo with Nikola Fabijanić, with whom she has recorded two albums: Portraits (A Classic, 2006) and Playtime (Croatia Records, 2013). She holds seminars and lectures on the interpretation of baroque music and on accompaniment and piano artistic collaboration, is an official artistic associate pianist at the Maruševec Summer Music Camp, the Jaska Saxophone School and the Sinj Summer Music School, as well as the Papandopulo and Woodwind & Brass competitions in Varaždin. She is the head of the Working Group of Artistic Associates of Pianists and Accompanists at the Art Society of Contemporary Artists and the artistic director of the Jaska Art Festival. Having expanded her artistic activities to include scientific work, she publishes scientific papers and exhibits at international scientific conferences. Since 2001, she has been employed at the Academy of Music in Zagreb as an artistic advisor.

OFFICIAL PIANO ACCOMPANIST REHEARSAL SCHEDULE – LINDA MRAVUNAC FABIJANIĆ

Ivan Batoš was born in Split in 1979. His first piano teacher was the nun Pavla Negovec at the Dominican Monastery in his hometown. He completed primary and secondary music school in Split under Ivana Oreb, and graduated from the Music Academy in Zagreb in 2002 (Đuro Tikvica). He got his master’s degree in 2009 (Lovro Pogorelić).

He attended seminars of world-famous pianists and educators: Anatolij Katz, Viktor Meržanov (Dubrovnik 1998), David Lively (Baden bei Wien 2001), Arbo Valdma (Cologne 2002), and at the Warsaw Piano Workshop in 2003.

He is the founder of the GIG Chamber Trio. He has been regularly performing with the GIG Trio throughout Croatia since 2006. He has made appearances at the leading festivals in Croatia (MBZ, Split Summer, Osor, VG Brass Festival, Tribina HDS Opatija) as a soloist and in ensembles with local and foreign instrumentalists. At the Zagreb Teatar &td, he made an appearnce as a pianist and ensemble leader performaning the chamber ballet Plumber by G. Tudor and N. Manojlović. In 2017, he was a guest lecturer in Arn Bornkamp’s class at the Amsterdam Conservatory as a scholarship holder of the ERASMUS+ Programme. He has won a number of awards for his artistic activity. He has been an artistic associate of the Music Academy in Zagreb for many years. Since January 2022, he has been an assistant professor at the Department of Music and Media of the  University North in Varaždin.

OFFICIAL PIANO ACCOMPANIST REHEARSAL SCHEDULE – IVAN BATOŠ

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