Bruno Vlahek
Bruno Vlahek (born 11 February 1986, Zagreb) is a Croatian pianist and composer.
Vlahek was born into a non-musical family and started his musical education at the age of 9. Being immediately recognized as a specially gifted child, he entered class of Vladimir Krpan and graduated piano at the Zagreb Academy of Music as one of the youngest students ever.[1] He obtained a soloist diploma at the Conservatoire de Lausanne with Jean-François Antonioli and received a master's degree at the Hochschule für Musik Köln where his teachers were Vassily Lobanov (piano), Tilmann Claus and Johannes Fritsch (composition and improvisation). From 2010/11 he is studying with Dmitri Bashkirov at the Queen Sofía College of Music in Madrid. In June 2011, he received an award for the best student of piano catedra from the hands of Her Majesty Queen Sofía of Spain in Royal Palace of El Pardo.
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Pianist
He appeared in recitals and as a soloist with orchestras throughout Europe, in Israel and Siberia, in the venues such as Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona, Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest, National Auditorium of Music in Madrid, Gasteig in Munich, Mozarteum Salzburg, Tel Aviv Museum of Art; performed at the Dubrovnik Summer Festival, Music Biennale Zagreb, Festival Busoni and played a concert series for Vladimir Spivakov Foundation in Moscow. In 2008, he recorded Saint-Saëns' Piano Concerto No. 2 with Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne for Radio Suisse Romande.[2]
He is a first prize winner of the international piano competitions “Ricard Viñes” 2008 in Lleida [3] and “Alexander Scriabin” 2010 in Paris.[4] In 2009, he became a finalist of the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition in Bolzano.[5] In 2011, he won the Yamaha Music Foundation's award in Madrid, as well as Pnina Salzman Memorial Prize in Israel.[6]
Composer
He is composing orchestral, chamber, solo and choral works of various genres which are mostly characterized by neoclassical form and expression, often combined with idiom of popular music.[7] His music has been critically acclaimed and performed in European concert venues (Berlin, Munich, Salzburg, Lausanne, Prague, Riga, Vienna, Ljubljana, Lisbon, Belgrade), North and South America [8] and at the ISCM’s World New Music Days 2010 in Sydney [9] (Australia). His works have been awarded by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia and are published in United Kingdom and USA.
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