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He was born in Rijeka, where at the Music School Ivan Matetic Ronjgov began to study violin at the age of seven (prof. K. Peljhan). Already in elementary music school, he received awards at state and international competitions of violinists. On the occasion of the 180th anniversary of the Music School, he performed as the youngest and soloist and performed the Concerto in A minor by J. S. Bach accompanied by the HNK Orchestra Ivana pl. Zajca in Rijeka. In addition to regular classes, he is trained in international summer schools. He has been a scholarship holder of the City of Rijeka since 2002, as a student of the Ivana Matetić Ronjgova Music School Rijeka, in which he completed the third class of the musician violinist program, with excellent successIn the current academic year, he was admitted to the first year of violin studies at the Academy of Music of the University of Zagreb and simultaneously attends classes with Prof. Leonida Sorokova (ed. prof. Academy of Music, University of Zagreb), who became his only professor since 2004.
He completed his violin studies in June 2010 in the class of Prof. Leonid Sorokow at the Academy of Music in Zagreb, is the most successful young Croatian musician in 2006 selected by the Zagreb Philharmonic, and the most successful Croatian violinist for two years in a row (2005 and 2006, for the performance of the First Concerto for Violin and Orchestra by Sergei Prokofiev) selected by the expert committee of the Stjepan Šulek Fund (2007).). He attends seminars under the guidance of eminent professors such as Dora Schwarzberg, Marina and Leonid Sorokow, Alexander Vinnitzky and Zakhar Bron.
He won many first prizes at national and international competitions. He has performed in Austria, Slovenia, Italy, the Netherlands, Lithuania, Germany and Japan and a number of Croatian cities. Thanks to the Stauffer Foundation, he takes summer seminars in Siena at the conservatory Accademia Chigianaand monthly master seminars held by the famous Italian violinist Salvatore Accardo in Cremona.
He is a multiple winner of first prizes at the Croatian Music and Dance Pupils and Students Competition, Zajčevi Dani, Etudes i Skala, the European competition “Alfredo and Wanda Marcosig” in Gorizia, Istria Nobilissima and the Grand Prix of Lions Club Rijeka. At the 2006 major international violin competition in Lisbon, he won the third prize, and at the international string competition in Moscow in the same year he won the second prize.
In addition, in Zagreb's Lisinski Palace he performed as a soloist in 2004 as part of the cycle “Audiencia — The Story of King” playing on the famous Guarneri violin King and as a soloist with the orchestra (2006).
He is the winner of the annual City of Rijeka Award (2007) for outstanding concert, artistic and competitive achievements in Croatia and abroad. He has performed with renowned orchestras such as the HNK Opera Orchestra from Split, the HNK Zajc Opera Orchestra from Rijeka, Croatian Chamber Orchestra, Zagreb Soloists, Zagreb and Slovenian Philharmonic, Varždin Chamber Orchestra, Kaunas Philharmonic, Festival Orchestra in Lisbon and others.
As a soloist and member of chamber ensembles, he successfully performs throughout Europe, in Japan and Russia. Thanks to financial support from the Adris Foundation, he plays Alessandro Gagliano's 1720 violin, owned by the Segelman Foundation.
