Jury Panel, Sonus op. 10
piano discipline
Tihana Ivanković enrolled in the Franjo Kuhač Music School in Osijek at the age of 13. In 1998, she completed her diploma in piano at the Zagreb Academy of Music, Osijek branch, under the guidance of Associate Professor Damir Sekošan with excellent grades.
Since then, she has dedicated herself exclusively to teaching at the Franjo Kuhač Music School in Osijek, and for several years also at elementary music schools in Valpovo and her hometown of Belišće.
Katarina Krpan a pianist and professor, graduated and received her master’s degree at the Academy of Music in Zagreb in the class of professor Vladimir Krpan. She continued her education and received her second master’s degree at the University of music in Lausanne in the class of professor Jean-François Antonioli. Her notable recitals, chamber music concerts, and performances with symphony and chamber ensembles, made her become one of the leading Croatian concert artists.
Nataša Mitrović, pianist, is a native of Belgrade, Srbija. She received her undergraduate and graduate degrees with excellent results at the Music Academy in Belgrade where she now teaches piano. Further studies included studies in Vienna with prof. Avo Kouyoumdjian and piano studies with prof. Jan Novotny in Prague. Natasha Mitrovic was the only artist from Serbia to be awarded Fulbright scholarship in year 2004. During her Fulbright grant, Ms. Mitrovic studied at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), at Julliard University (New York) ...
Dragan Opančić was born in Sarajevo, where he graduated from secondary music school and finished three years of Academy of Music in Sarajevo. As a scholarship awarded student by The Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture in 1994., he left Sarajevo to continue his studies at Higher educational art institutions for music in Vienna and Graz (piano performance and piano pedagogy).
Ivana Tukša began her music education in the Music school Albert Štrige in Križevci, and graduated from music highschool Blagoj Berse in Zagreb, in the class of professor Renata Strojin Richter. She graduated in Piano Performance from the Music Academy in Zagreb in 1994 in the class of Pavica Gvozdić, and she completed a two-year elective training in harpsichord ...
solfeggio discipline
Matej Bonin, born in 1986 in Koper, graduated in composition under the mentorship of prof. Uroša Rojka at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana. He continued his education at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, majoring in composition-musical theatre, under the mentorship of prof. Beat Furrer. For his studies abroad, he received a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia.
Alida Jakopanec, Senior Advisor and Professor, was born in Zagreb, where she graduated in 1980 from the Academy of Music (Department I-b, Music Theory). From 1979 to 1982, she worked at the Functional Music School in Zagreb (today the Elly Bašić Music School). From 1982 until her retirement in 2023, she was employed at the Vatroslav Lisinski Music School in Bjelovar as a professor of music theory subjects.
Davor Zanoški was born in Zagreb, where he studied and graduated from the first department for composition and theory of music at the Academy of Music. He has been working as a teacher for many years and since 2022 as the head of the Department of Theoretical Music Subjects at the Music School of Pavla Markovca in Zagreb. His students achieved notable results at national and international competitions...
Zlata Životić, Advisory Professor, got her university diplomas at Music academy Zagreb in 2006. (Department for compostion and theory of music) and in 2007. harpsichord at prof. Višnja Mažuran, who was her mentor in artistic postgraduate study-harpsichord which she completed in 2009. She works at Blagoje Bersa music school in Zagreb, before which she worked in A. Štriga music school in Križevci and in Academy of Arts in Osijek. She continuously attends seminars in fiels of music theory and interpretation of early music.
percussion discipline
Darko Karlečik graduated in percussion from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, where he studied in the class of Prof. Nebojša Jovan Živković and Prof. Dr. Art. Srđan Palačković. After successfully completing his undergraduate studies, he enrolled in a Master’s programme at MUK University (Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien) in Vienna, which he completed in June 2016 in the class of Prof. Nebojša Jovan Živković.
Simon Klavžar studied percussion at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana, the University of Music and Theatre in Munich, and completed postgraduate studies in contemporary music at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt. From 2013 to 2021, he taught percussion at the Conservatory of Music and Ballet in Ljubljana, and since 2021 he has served as Associate Professor of Percussion and Head of the Department of Woodwinds, Brass and Percussion at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana.
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.
violin discipline
Anđelko Krpan graduated in Violin at the Academy of Music in Zagreb in the class of Kristijan Petrović (1989), and went on to earn his Masters at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna in the class of Dora Schwarzberg (1995). He has been a member of the Vienna Chamber Philharmonic (1989-93), then member of the Zagreb Soloists (1993-97), orchestra leader of the Zagreb Soloists (1997-2002), concertmaster of Croatian National Theatre Orchestra of Zagreb (2002-2006)...
Vanda Novoselecprof. excellent counselor (1974, Croatia, Split) completed her elementary and secondary musical education at the Josip Hatze School of Music in Split, in the class of professor Aristid Martinis. In 1992, she enrolled in the Academy of Music in Zagreb in the class of professor Josip Klima, and concludes her studies in the class of professors Tonko Ninić and Anđelko Krpan where she earned the title of violin professor. Since 1997, she has been employed at Music school Vatroslav Lisinski in Bjelovar...
Ines Ana Tomić is a Croatian violin pedagogue with over 20 years of experience. She has received numerous awards for her work (including Ministry of Education' and Croatian Music and Dance Teachers Association) and her students have won over 100 prizes at various national and international competitions. Ms Tomić holds seminars and masterclasses for students and teachers and takes part as a Jury member on music competitions in Croatia and abroad.
Monika Zima was born in 1964 in Sremska Mitrovica. She began studying the violin at the age of six in her hometown and continued her musical education at the School for Musical Talents in Ćuprija. She completed her secondary music education and graduated from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, studying in the class of Prof. Uroš Pešić.
Official Accompanist
Renata Hil was born in 1967 in Split, where she graduated from secondary music school in the class of prof. Olga Račić. In 1984, she enrolled in the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad in the class of prof. Jokuthon Mihajlović and graduated in the class of prof. Kemal Gekić. She studied at the Hochschulle "Mozarteum" in Salzburg in class of Prof. Karl-Heinz Kaemmerling – piano and Prof. Erike Frieser – chamber music.
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