Anika Vavic
Anika Vavić ( Serbian - Cyrillic Аника Вавић ; born November 9, 1975 in Belgrade , Yugoslavia ) is a Serbian pianist .
Life
Growing up in Belgrade, the young pianist Anika Vavić performed for the first time in front of a larger audience at the age of eight. Anika Vavić has lived in Vienna since she was 16 , initially to study with Noel Flores at the University of Music and Performing Arts . Over the years she has also received important artistic impulses from Elisabeth Leonskaja , Lazar Berman , Oleg Maisenberg , Alexander Satz and Mstislaw Rostropowitsch .
In October 2001 she won the Second Steinway Competition in Vienna and, in this context, the special prize for the best Haydn interpretation. In November 2001 she received a scholarship from the Herbert von Karajan Center in Vienna and the Gottfried von Eine Foundation. In 2002 the state of Austria awarded her the Women.Art.Prize in the music category. For the 2003/2004 season, Anika Vavić was selected at the suggestion of the Wiener Musikverein and the Wiener Konzerthaus for the renowned concert cycle Rising Stars , which took her as a soloist to the world's most famous concert halls, including Carnegie Hall New York, Wigmore Hall London, and Concertgebouw Amsterdam , Wiener Musikverein, Cologne Philharmonic , Cité de la musique Paris, Mozarteum Salzburg and Festspielhaus Baden-Baden . Together with the Musikverein, ORF produced a CD recording of their recital program. In May 2003, Anika Vavić made her debut at the Wiener Konzerthaus with Tchaikovsky's B flat minor piano concerto .
In spring 2004 she made her debut with the Belgrade Radio Symphony Orchestra under Andrés Orozco-Estrada and with the Munich Philharmonic under Paavo Järvi ( Prokofiev's 3rd Piano Concerto), immediately followed by her debuts at the Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg with the Vienna Chamber Philharmonic under the Conductor Claudius Traunfellner ( Mozart's “Jenamy” piano concerto ) and a solo evening at the Ruhr Piano Festival with works by Haydn, Beethoven and Prokofiev.
In the 2004/2005 season Anika Vavić performed piano recitals in London, New York, in the Next Generation series in Dortmund and in the Grandes Pianistas series at the Teatro Municipal in Santiago de Chile , but also at festivals such as the Heidelberg Spring, Styriarte Graz, KlangBogen Wien , Grafenegg and again the Ruhr Piano Festival, where she premiered a work by Johannes Maria Staud .
In the 2005/2006 concert season, a recital tour with works by Brahms , Schumann and Chopin Vavić led to Tokyo and Yaizu in Japan . In Europe, Anika Vavić now performs regularly with recitals at the Wiener Musikverein and the Wiener Konzerthaus and is often a guest in Berlin, London, Belgrade and Moscow . For the first time she performed the cadenza specially composed for her by Kalevi Aho . In the same concert she played Mozart's double concerto KV 365 with Gülsin Onay .
In the "Shostakovich year" 2006, she has performed with the Piano Concerto No. 2 by Shostakovich in St. Petersburg at the Stars of the White Nights Festival with the Mariinsky Orchestra under the baton of Paavo Järvi and the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra - also under the direction of Paavo Järvi - at the David Oistrakh Festival in Pärnu , Estonia .
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Vavic, Anika |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Serbian pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 9, 1975 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Belgrade |