In June 2020, Collegium Musicum of London collaborates with Croation pianist Ivan Krpan in a concert which features Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis and the first Piano Concerto.
At the age of 20, Ivan Krpan won the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition 2017, one of the world’s most prestigious piano competitions.
Ivan, who is a currently a student at the Music Academy in Zagreb, was born in Zagreb in 1997 into a musical family and began studying the piano at the age of six at the Blagoje Bersa Music School in Zagreb, under the tutelage of Renata Strojin Richter.
Since 2013, he has been studying piano with Ruben Dalibaltayan at the Music Academy in Zagreb. He has won several first prizes in national and international piano competitions. Prizes of note include first prizes at the twelfth Piano Competition ‘Les Rencontres Internationales des Jeunes Pianistes’ Grez Doiceau in Belgium in 2014, the International Piano Competition Young Virtuosi in Zagreb in 2014, the International Piano Competition for Young Musicians in Enschede (Netherlands) and the Ettlingen International Competition for Young Pianists.
He achieved second prize in the International Danube Piano Competition in Ulm in 2014 and in the same year he won a special prize awarded by the Dean of the Zagreb Music Academy and the fourth prize at the 1st International Zhuhai Mozart Competition in Zhuhai, China. He also won the annual Ivo Vuljević prize awarded by the Jeunesses Musicales Croatia for the best young musician in Croatia in 2015. More recent accolades include the third prize at the tenth Moscow International Frederick Chopin Competition for Young Pianists in 2016. The Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra has granted him the Young Musician of the Year Award in 2016. In addition, Ivan Krpan was awarded a scholarship by the International Academy of Music in Liechtenstein and takes regular part in the intensive music weeks and activities offered by the Academy. Future engagements include concerts in the UK, Italy, Germany, China, South Korea, Japan – and a tour in South America.
The event is the choir’s contribution to the global celebrations marking 250 years since the German composer’s birth, and is presented in partnership with the Bar Choral Society and The Keyboard Trust.
Saturday June 20 7.30pm
St John’s Smith Square
London SW1P 3HA
Tickets on sale in January 2020
