Bruno Vlahek

Bruno Vlahek

Pianist and composer Bruno Vlahek was born in 1986 in Zagreb (Croatia). Critics describe his piano performances as “exceptional”, highlighting his “fantastic virtuosity” and “the depth of musical thought that bewitches audiences”.

He performs regularly throughout Europe, as well as in Asia, Africa, North and South America, Russia and the Middle East, in venues such as the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona, Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest, Dubai Opera, St. Martin-in-the-Fields in London, Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid, Kremlin in Moscow, Gasteig in Munich, Mozarteum in Salzburg, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Shanghai Concert Hall and Seoul Arts Centre. His performances at the festivals of Dubrovnik, Bolzano, Vienna, Moscow, Dar es-Salam and Verbier, among others, are also noteworthy. He has toured China several times, where he returns frequently, performing in some of the most important venues in the country. He has won prizes at prestigious international piano competitions in Paris, Shanghai, Lleida and Lyon, as well as the Prix Paderewski in Switzerland and the Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe, the title “Young Musician of the Year 2010” in his native country, the Pnina Salzman memorial prize in Israel and the “Artists on Globe Award”. In 2011 he was honoured with a diploma from Her Majesty the Queen of Spain. As a composer, he is also the winner of the first prize in the “Cristóbal Halffter” International Composition Competition, the “Porin” record prize and the “Stjepan Šulek” prize for the best classical music composition of 2019, as well as the laureate of the “New Classics” international competition held in the Great Hall of the P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow in 2021.

He has collaborated with conductors and chamber musicians such as Jaime Martín, Leopold Hager, David Danzmayr, Pascal Rophé, Diemut Poppen, Philippe Müller, Milan Horvat, Alexander Ghindin, Cyprien Katsaris and Viktor Tretyakov. He is also a member of the successful piano duo D&B with his wife Dubravka Vukalovic, with whom he won the piano duo competitions in Monaco and London. He has made recordings for BBC 3, France Musique, NPO Radio 4 in the Netherlands, RTVE and Catalunya Ràdio in Spain, and Radio Suisse Romande, for which he recorded C. Saint-Saëns’ Concerto No. 2 with the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne. In 2020 three of his albums have been released: “Touches” – dedicated to works by L. Bernstein, G. Ligeti and I. Stravinsky for Croatia Records, the complete Etudes-quadros by S. Rachmaninov for PlayClassics and the selection of D. Scarlatti’s sonatas for the Naxos label. The latter was compared by the prestigious Belgian Crescendo Magazine with the recordings of Christian Zacharias and Vladimir Horowitz.

He graduated from the Academy of Music of the University of Zagreb with Vladimir Krpan as one of the youngest students in the school’s history, obtained a soloist diploma at the Lausanne Conservatory (Switzerland) with Jean-François Antonioli, and completed his master’s degree at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne (Germany) with Vassily Lobanov, where he also studied composition and improvisation. Between 2010 and 2013 he studied with the legendary pianist Dmitri Bashkirov at the Escuela de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid.

His works have been premiered on five continents, in cities such as New York, Chicago, London, Berlin, Amsterdam, Salzburg, Prague, Lisbon, Cambridge, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Seoul or Singapore, as well as at the World New Music Days in Sydney (Australia); and are published in the USA, Croatia, Russia and the UK.

He currently teaches piano at the Centro Superior Katarina Gurska in Madrid, serves as a member of juries for music competitions and gives master classes all over the world.

More Information:

http://www.brunovlahek.com

http://www.facebook.com/brunovlahek

http://www.instagram.com/brunovlahek

Subjects taught:

  • Piano
  • Piano duo
  • Repertoire with piano accompanist
  • Contemporary solo repertoire

Degrees in which he/she teaches:

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