Erekton99's video: 6th Svetislav Stancic International Piano Competition

6th Svetislav Stancic International Piano Competition (3rd - 8th February 2018, Zagreb) Awards 1st Prize not awarded 2nd Prize Aleksandar Raos (Srbija) 3rd Prize Ivan Vihor Krsnik Čohar (Croatia) and Vasyl Kotys (Ukraine) 4th Prize Junichi Ito (Japan) 5th finalist Yurika Kimura (Japan) 6th finalist Dmitry Yudin (Rusia) Special Awards Dmitry Yudin (Rusija) - Croatian Composers Society Award for the best performance of Capriccio by B.Papandopulo Ivan Vihor Krsnik Čohar (Hrvatska) - Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra Award to the best Croatian finalist (Concert with DSO) Aleksandar Raos (Srbija) - Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra Competition info - Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall The Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall was opened in 1973. Since then, it has been a true temple of music. Aesthetically and technically remarkably formed, the Great Hall has hosted renowned symphony orchestras, famous conductors and soloists, concerts, performances and many international gatherings, conferences, symposiums and festivals. The “Svetislav Stančić” International Piano Competition has been hosted here from its very beginning. Situated half way between old and new Zagreb, with its Grand Hall (1860 seats), Small Hall (300 seats), meeting rooms and a large functional lobby, this is a Music and Congress Center with an audience of about 700 000 people a year. Svetislav Stančić (Zagreb, 1895 – Zagreb, 1970) marked several decades of musical life in Zagreb and Croatia with his work as a pianist, pedagogue, and composer. He started learning music in 1909, and finished the Croatian Music Institute’s Music School in 1914. In 1918 he left for Berlin where he was taking private lessons in piano with Heinrich Barth and Conrad Ansorge until 1922, while studying composition under Ferruci Busoni at the Berlin Arts Academy. His studies under the Italian composer and pianist seem to had left the greatest impression on Stančić which will reflect in all his ensuing artistic and pedagogical activities. He then returned to Zagreb where he became the professor and then head of the piano department at the Royal Academy of Music. Ever since 1915, and especially after returning to Zagreb, Stančić had developed an intensive piano career, performing profiled evening programs with his compositions and the works of other Croatian and international composers, creating special thematic and authorial evenings where he interpreted pieces by great masters and performing in different chamber ensembles.