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Ivan Violić

Gala at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall

February 16, 2026

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Ivan Violić at Carnegie Hall, February 16, 2026

Born on 24 May 1982 in Dubrovnik, he completed his primary and secondary music education at the Luka Sorkočević Arts Gymnasium.


He studied piano at the Academy of Music in Zagreb, where in 2006 he earned the degree of Academic Musician–Pianist and Piano Professor in the class of Prof. Pavica Gvozdić. He completed postgraduate studies in chamber music in 2012 at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, studying with Prof. Chia Chou. Through the Erasmus student exchange program, he pursued studies in electroacoustic music at the Institute for Electroacoustic Music in 2017–2018 in the class of Prof. Dr. Karlheinz Essl. In 2019, he completed composition studies at the Academy of Music in Zagreb under Prof. Frano Parać.


Throughout his education and professional career, he has been active as a soloist and collaborative artist, performing extensively across Croatia. Notable appearances include concerts with the Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of the Academy of Music in Zagreb, and the Zagreb Youth Orchestra, as well as performances within the Virtuoso concert series, Krk Summer Evenings, the Epidaurus Festival, the Darko Lukić Young Artists Tribune, and the Osor Musical Evenings.


His compositions have been performed in numerous Croatian and international projects and festivals, including Code:new and Code:new Goes Chamber, the Virtuoso cycle, Izlog suvremenog zvuka, ISA 2015, the Music Tribune in Opatija (2016), the Sebastian Quartet season (2016–2017), the bilateral project Year of Culture Croatia–Austria 2017, the Dubrovnik Summer Festival, and the Music Biennale Zagreb.


He was awarded scholarships at the International Summer Academy in Mürzzuschlag, Austria (2015), and at the European Atelier for Composition Students in Sofia (2017), where he was selected to represent the Academy of Music in Zagreb. He is also a recipient of the Rector’s Award for the academic year 2017–2018.


In 2018–2019, with the support of the First Department of the Academy of Music in Zagreb, he initiated and led the student workshop Slušaonica – Music in the 21st Century, presenting and contextualizing diverse aesthetic directions in contemporary music. As part of Music Biennale Zagreb 2019, he moderated the round table Music, Society, Now, focused on contemporary musical discourse.


In 2019, through a collaboration between the University of Melbourne and the University of Zagreb, he delivered a lecture at the Academy of Music in Zagreb on the fundamentals, guidelines, and creative applications of the Max programming language.


He is a regular member of the Croatian Composers’ Society.


Following the completion of his piano studies, he worked from 2006 to 2017 as a piano teacher and accompanist at the Albert Štriga Music School in Križevci, teaching at both elementary and secondary levels. Since 2019, he has been on the faculty of the Josip Hatze Music School in Split, and since 2020 he has served as an external associate at the Arts Academy in Split. Since 2023, he has also been regularly engaged as a collaborative artist at the Croatian National Theatre in Split.



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