Competition Jury
guitar discipline
Maroje Brčić was born in Dubrovnik, Croatia where he started playing the guitar at the age of 7 under the guidance of his father Stefanin Brčić. He finished highschool in the class of prof. István Römer and graduated classical guitar at the Zagreb Music Academy in the class of prof. Darko Petrinjak.
He teaches guitar at the Arts Academy of the Split University...
Marko Feri took his Diploma in guitar at the “G.Tartini” conservatory in Trieste (Italy) and then attended many masterclasses with D.Russell, M.Barrueco and A.Ponce. He plays regularly in important music festivals in Europe, USA, Canada, Mexico, Australia and Japan, both as a soloist and with chamber music ensembles.
Xhevdet Sahatxhija graduated from the Music Academy in Zagreb in the class of Professor Darko Petrinjak. As a guitar professor, he has been working for many years in Music scholl Pavla Markovca. Currently, he is a professor at the Faculty of Arts and Culture in Osijek and a lecturer at the Faculty of Arts in Peja. From 2003-2017 he lectured at the Academy of Music in Zagreb...
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 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 Jelić 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 ...
tambura discipline
Julijana Baštić (Jovanović), an ethnomusicologist, tambura player, and mother, was born in Novi Sad in 1988. She had her first contact with music and the tambura at the age of eight, enrolling in the Josip Slavenski Elementary Music School, where she completed the E-prim tambura program in the class of Galina Subotin.
Franjo Pećarić (born in 1995) was born in Vinkovci, where he completed his elementary school education. He graduated from the Alberto Štriga Music School in Križevci in 2014, majoring in tambura and theoretical studies. In the same year, he enrolled at the Academy of Music in Zagreb, majoring in Music Pedagogy. He graduated in Music Pedagogy in 2019 under the mentorship of senior lecturer Veljko Valentin Škorvaga...
Vice Zirdum (1984. Đakovo, Croatia) graduated from highschool A.G.Matoš in Đakovo and from music school Franjo Kuhač in Osijek, the department of theory of music. After successfully finishing his secondary education he enrolls in the Academy of Music from the University of Zagreb, department of music and culture studies.
percussion discipline
After studying at the University of Music and Theater in Munich, Jože Bogolin is appointed as the Head of the Percussion Department at the Conservatory of Music and Ballet in Ljubljana. He actively performs concerts at stages worldwide: Carnegie Hall (New York-USA), Berlin Philharmonic (Germany), Hermitage Theatre Sant-Petersburg (Russia), Ljubljana Festival (Slovenia)...
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.
Davor Maraus , M.A. was born on (1979) in Sarajevo. He graduated from the Music school in 1998 with honors in the class of professor Desanka Jovanović. He continues his education in 2000 in Stockholm owing to the cooperation of the Music Academy of Sarajevo with the Royal Music Academy in Stockholm...
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