Vladimir Valjarevic
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Vladimir Valjarević is a Bosnian/American
pianist
.
Valjarević came to New York City
on a scholarship from the Mannes College of Music
, where he earned Bachelor's and Master's degrees as a recipient of the Marian Marcus Wahl Performance Award. His principal teachers were Pavlina Dokovska and Vladimir Feltsman
. Prior to studying at Mannes, Valjarević attended the Primary and Secondary Music School in Tuzla
(Bosnia) in the class of Planinka Jurišić and Academy of Arts in Novi Sad
and the Conservatory of Music in Belgrade
(both in Serbia) in the class of Arbo Valdma
. Additional studies include Master Classes with Pascal Devoyon, Philippe Bianconi
, Gaby Casadesus
, Lilian Kallir, Eteri Andjaparidze
, Lydia Kouteva.
Valjarević has participated in festivals such as IMS Prussia Cove in England; American Conservatory in Fontainebleau, France; International Festival-Institute at Round Top in Texas; International Keyboard Institute and Beethoven Institute in New York; Kneisel Hall in Maine (as a recipient of the Artur Balsam Scholarship); European Piano Teachers Association (EPTA) in Rovigno, Croatia; and Ohrid Summer, Macedonia. As a soloist and a chamber musician, Vladimir Valjarević has won numerous prizes at National Competitions in former Yugoslavia as well as at the "Citta di Stresa" and "Citta di Marsala" International Competitions in Italy. He has recorded for Yugoslav Radio and Television and the Voice of America. His latest CD, Tribute to Faure, is recorded for Labor Records.
in Vermont
; "ProMozart" Society in Atlanta, Georgia
; DePaul University
in Chicago, Illinois; as well as on the concert series of the Siena College
in Albany, New York
; "An Die Musik LIVE" in Baltimore, Maryland; "Young Musicians Forum" in Schenectady, New York
; the French Embassy and American University
in Washington, D.C.
; Polish Consulate, American Society for Jewish Music, Donnell Library, "Music Under Construction", Greenwich House Music School, and "Meet the Virtuoso" at the 92nd Street Y
in New York City
. He has performed at various venues in New York City including Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall
, Merkin Hall, Steinway Hall
, The United Nations, Goethe Institute, The Liederkranz, French Consulate (New York City), New School's Tishman Auditorium and Aaron Copland School of Music
at Queens College
among others. His European concert activity took him to England
, Germany
, France
, Italy
, The Netherlands, and the former Yugoslavia
. In the United States
, Valjarević appeared with the Youngstown and Knoxville Symphonies, and in Serbia with Camerata Academica and Nish Chamber Orchestra.
Committed to the exploration of contemporary repertoire, Valjarevic worked under the direction of such composers as Lukas Foss
, Dick Hyman
, James Cohn
, David Tcimpidis, Benjamin Lees
, Michael Cohen
, Aleksandra Vrebalov
and Ellen Lindquist. In addition, he performed in the European premiere of Cage's dance drama "Four Walls" in Berlin and Hamburg. He has often collaborated with musicologist Nancy Reich in her highly acclaimed lectures on Clara Schumann
, as well as with AmorArtis Chamber Orchestra, The Boys Choir of Harlem
, and "The Piano Quartet on the Balcony" at the Metropolitan Museum. He is a co-founder of "Trio 56" with violinist Stephen Miahky and cellist Ole Eirik Ree.
Valjarević teaches piano at Mannes Preparatory and Extension divisions. He is the teaching assistant of Pavlina Dokovska in the College division. Currently, he is a Doctoral Candidate at Rutgers University where he receives Saldarini and Frazier-Durham Awards and studies with Susan Starr
.
United States
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pianist
Pianist
A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers.-Choice of genres:...
.
Valjarević came to New York City
New York City
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on a scholarship from the Mannes College of Music
Mannes College of Music
Mannes College The New School for Music is The New School university's music conservatory. While the university's main campus is located in Greenwich Village, New York City, Mannes maintains its main academic building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan....
, where he earned Bachelor's and Master's degrees as a recipient of the Marian Marcus Wahl Performance Award. His principal teachers were Pavlina Dokovska and Vladimir Feltsman
Vladimir Feltsman
Vladimir Feltsman is a Russian American classical pianist.Feltsman debuted with the Moscow Philharmonic at age 11. He studied at the Moscow Tchaikovsky, Moscow, and Leningrad Vladimir Feltsman is a Russian American classical pianist.Feltsman debuted with the Moscow Philharmonic at age 11. He...
. Prior to studying at Mannes, Valjarević attended the Primary and Secondary Music School in Tuzla
Tuzla
Tuzla is a city and municipality in Bosnia and Herzegovina. At the time of the 1991 census, it had 83,770 inhabitants, while the municipality 131,318. Taking the influx of refugees into account, the city is currently estimated to have 174,558 inhabitants...
(Bosnia) in the class of Planinka Jurišić and Academy of Arts in Novi Sad
Novi Sad
Novi Sad is the capital of the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina, and the administrative centre of the South Bačka District. The city is located in the southern part of Pannonian Plain on the Danube river....
and the Conservatory of Music in Belgrade
Belgrade
Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...
(both in Serbia) in the class of Arbo Valdma
Arbo Valdma
Arbo Valdma is a Serbian pianist and music pedagogue of Estonian heritage. He is a professor of piano at the University of Music in Cologne...
. Additional studies include Master Classes with Pascal Devoyon, Philippe Bianconi
Philippe Bianconi
Philippe Bianconi is a French pianist.Philippe Bianconi studied at the Nice conservatoire with Simone Delbert-Février and later with Gaby Casadesus in Paris and Vitalij Margulis in Freiburg...
, Gaby Casadesus
Gaby Casadesus
Gaby Casadesus was a French classical pianist and teacher born in Marseilles, France. She was married to the famous French pianist Robert Casadesus, and their son Jean Casadesus was also a notable pianist....
, Lilian Kallir, Eteri Andjaparidze
Eteri Andjaparidze
Eteri Andjaparidze is a Georgian/American pianist and pedagogue. Born on September 15, 1956, to the family of musicians in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, Andjaparidze received her first piano lessons from her pianist mother Yvette Bachtadze. Her father Zurab Andjaparidze was the leading tenor with...
, Lydia Kouteva.
Valjarević has participated in festivals such as IMS Prussia Cove in England; American Conservatory in Fontainebleau, France; International Festival-Institute at Round Top in Texas; International Keyboard Institute and Beethoven Institute in New York; Kneisel Hall in Maine (as a recipient of the Artur Balsam Scholarship); European Piano Teachers Association (EPTA) in Rovigno, Croatia; and Ohrid Summer, Macedonia. As a soloist and a chamber musician, Vladimir Valjarević has won numerous prizes at National Competitions in former Yugoslavia as well as at the "Citta di Stresa" and "Citta di Marsala" International Competitions in Italy. He has recorded for Yugoslav Radio and Television and the Voice of America. His latest CD, Tribute to Faure, is recorded for Labor Records.
Performance
In the United States, Valjarević has performed at the Southwest Virginia Festival for the Arts; Manchester Music Festival and Middlebury CollegeMiddlebury College
Middlebury College is a private liberal arts college located in Middlebury, Vermont, USA. Founded in 1800, it is one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States. Drawing 2,400 undergraduates from all 50 United States and over 70 countries, Middlebury offers 44 majors in the arts,...
in Vermont
Vermont
Vermont is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state ranks 43rd in land area, , and 45th in total area. Its population according to the 2010 census, 630,337, is the second smallest in the country, larger only than Wyoming. It is the only New England...
; "ProMozart" Society in Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta, Georgia
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; DePaul University
DePaul University
DePaul University is a private institution of higher education and research in Chicago, Illinois. Founded by the Vincentians in 1898, the university takes its name from the 17th century French priest Saint Vincent de Paul...
in Chicago, Illinois; as well as on the concert series of the Siena College
Siena College
Siena College is an independent Roman Catholic liberal arts college in Loudonville, in the town of Colonie, New York, United States. Siena is a four-year, coeducational, independent college in the Franciscan tradition, founded by the Franciscan Friars in 1937. It has 3,000 full-time students and...
in Albany, New York
Albany, New York
Albany is the capital city of the U.S. state of New York, the seat of Albany County, and the central city of New York's Capital District. Roughly north of New York City, Albany sits on the west bank of the Hudson River, about south of its confluence with the Mohawk River...
; "An Die Musik LIVE" in Baltimore, Maryland; "Young Musicians Forum" in Schenectady, New York
Schenectady, New York
Schenectady is a city in Schenectady County, New York, United States, of which it is the county seat. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 66,135...
; the French Embassy and American University
American University
American University is a private, Methodist, liberal arts, and research university in Washington, D.C. The university was chartered by an Act of Congress on December 5, 1892 as "The American University", which was approved by President Benjamin Harrison on February 24, 1893...
in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
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; Polish Consulate, American Society for Jewish Music, Donnell Library, "Music Under Construction", Greenwich House Music School, and "Meet the Virtuoso" at the 92nd Street Y
92nd Street Y
92nd Street Y is a multifaceted cultural institution and community center located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, United States, at the corner of E. 92nd Street and Lexington Avenue. Its full name is 92nd Street Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association...
in New York City
New York City
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. He has performed at various venues in New York City including Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....
, Merkin Hall, Steinway Hall
Steinway Hall
Steinway Hall is the name of buildings housing concert halls, showrooms and sales departments for Steinway & Sons pianos. The first Steinway Hall was opened 1866 in New York City. Today, Steinway Halls and Steinway-Häuser are located in world cities such as New York City, London, Hamburg, Berlin,...
, The United Nations, Goethe Institute, The Liederkranz, French Consulate (New York City), New School's Tishman Auditorium and Aaron Copland School of Music
Aaron Copland School of Music
The Aaron Copland School of Music is one of the oldest and most distinguished departments at Queens College, founded when the College opened in 1937....
at Queens College
Queens College, City University of New York
Queens College, located in Flushing, Queens, New York City, is one of the senior colleges of the City University of New York. It is also the fifth oldest of the City University's twenty-three institutions of higher learning. The college's seventy seven acre campus is located in the heart of the...
among others. His European concert activity took him to England
England
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, Germany
Germany
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, France
France
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, Italy
Italy
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, The Netherlands, and the former Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....
. In the United States
United States
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, Valjarević appeared with the Youngstown and Knoxville Symphonies, and in Serbia with Camerata Academica and Nish Chamber Orchestra.
Committed to the exploration of contemporary repertoire, Valjarevic worked under the direction of such composers as Lukas Foss
Lukas Foss
Lukas Foss was a German-born American composer, conductor, and pianist.-Music career:He was born Lukas Fuchs in Berlin, Germany in 1922. His father was the philosopher and scholar Martin Fuchs...
, Dick Hyman
Dick Hyman
Richard “Dick” Hyman is an American jazz pianist/keyboardist and composer, best-known for his versatility with jazz piano styles. Over a 50 year career, he has functioned as pianist, organist, arranger, music director, and, increasingly, as composer...
, James Cohn
James Cohn
James Cohn is an American composer born in 1928 in Newark, New Jersey. After taking violin and piano lessons in his native town, he studied composition with Roy Harris, Wayne Barlow and Bernard Wagenaar, and majored in Composition at Juilliard, graduating in 1950.He has written solo, chamber,...
, David Tcimpidis, Benjamin Lees
Benjamin Lees
Benjamin Lees was a contemporary U.S. composer of Art music, born in Harbin, China, raised in San Francisco and lived in Palm Springs, California.-Early life:...
, Michael Cohen
Michael Cohen
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, Aleksandra Vrebalov
Aleksandra Vrebalov
Aleksandra Vrebalov is a Serbian composer based in New York City. She studied composition with Miroslav Statkic at Novi Sad University, then with Zoran Erić at Belgrade University, Elinor Armer at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and Ivana Loudova at the Prague Academy of Music...
and Ellen Lindquist. In addition, he performed in the European premiere of Cage's dance drama "Four Walls" in Berlin and Hamburg. He has often collaborated with musicologist Nancy Reich in her highly acclaimed lectures on Clara Schumann
Clara Schumann
Clara Schumann was a German musician and composer, considered one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era...
, as well as with AmorArtis Chamber Orchestra, The Boys Choir of Harlem
Boys Choir of Harlem
The Boys Choir of Harlem was a choir located in Harlem, New York City, United States. Its last performance was in 2007 and the group folded shortly thereafter due to several controversies, a large budget deficit, and the death of its founder.Founded in 1968 by Dr...
, and "The Piano Quartet on the Balcony" at the Metropolitan Museum. He is a co-founder of "Trio 56" with violinist Stephen Miahky and cellist Ole Eirik Ree.
Valjarević teaches piano at Mannes Preparatory and Extension divisions. He is the teaching assistant of Pavlina Dokovska in the College division. Currently, he is a Doctoral Candidate at Rutgers University where he receives Saldarini and Frazier-Durham Awards and studies with Susan Starr
Susan Starr
-Biography:She began her studies with Eleanor Sokoloff at age four. She later entered the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied with Rudolf Serkin until her graduation in 1961...
.