Josip Konfic

Josip Konfic graduated from the Music Academy in Zagreb in the class of Professor Igor Lešnik and Ivana Kuljerić Bilić.
He has participated in numerous national contests across various categories (soloist, chamber ensembles, composing) and international percussion festivals in Austria, Slovenia, Poland, Argentina, Uruguay, China, Sweden, France, Belgium, Puerto Rico, South Korea, Hungary and Serbia. His collaboration with the Croatian Radiotelevision Symphony Orchestra, chamber orchestra Zagreb Soloists, Croatian Baroque Ensemble, the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra and Opera orchestra of the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, Rijeka and Split, began during his early academic years. He served as a lead instructor of percussion workshops in Tinjan, Križevci, Bjelovar, Samobor, Zagreb and Murska Sobota in Slovenia. He was a member of a percussion quartet BOOMerang and the ensemble “biNg bang” that received a special Rector's Award of the University of Zagreb and a first award SUMMA CUM LAUDE at the European contest in Neerpelt, Belgium.
In 2014, he collaborated with Croatian Television on the production of five educational shows called "Notica". In 2019, he collaborated on "School Hour - Why Play Percussion Instruments?" And in 2022, in collaboration with the Croatian Youth Music, he produced six educational videos for children and youth titled "Story of Percussion."
He is the recipient of the Annual Award from the Croatian Society of Music and Dance Educators (2019), five Oscars of Knowledge, an award from the Ministry of Science and Education for the most successful educational worker in the field of education in the school year 2021/22, and over 80 awards with students (from international, national, and regional competitions). He has conducted percussion workshops in Križevci, Bjelovar, Samobor, Zagreb (Biennale), Tinjan, Murska Sobotu, and Dugo Selo.
He is a percussion teacher at the Pavla Markovca Music School in Zagreb. Since 2011, he has been organizing the percussion festival "Evenings of Percussionists in Križevci." Since 2016, he has been organizing the international competition "Sonus" for young percussionists and, starting from 2022, the Junior Percussion Camp in Grožnjan.
He has created several arrangements and compositions for percussion instruments and a music for documentary film.