Young virtuoso
IVAN ŠTORIĆ, piano
Ivan Štorić, a young pianist from the island Pašman, is a 5th-year-student of piano in the class of Prof. Olga Cinkoburova. He attended primary music school in Biograd with Prof. Tatjana Jergan, and Blagoje Bersa Music School in Zadar with Prof. Elizabet Novak. He won the first and third prize at the competition Distant Accords (2004 and 2006), second prize at the regional piano competition (2009 and 2011), was a finalist of the international competition Young Virtuosi in 2014, and won the second prize at the international competition Memorial Jurica Murai 2015. He attended seminars with established piano pedagogues: Dalibor Cikojević, Đorđe Stanetti, Ivanka Kordić, Tatjana Ognjenović, Ruben Dalibaltayan, Grigory Gruzman and Kemal Gekić. He already performed in the cycle Bersa several times, and this performance will be his first full recital in Zadar.