KREŠIMIR STARČEVIĆ


LATICA ANIĆ, cello
&
KREŠIMIR STARČEVIĆ, piano


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KREŠIMIR STARČEVIĆ


LATICA ANIĆ, cello
&
KREŠIMIR STARČEVIĆ, piano


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Suggested Program:

Around Dora’s Sonata

Blagoje Bersa: Rêverie for cello and piano, op. 49 (1904)
Dora Pejačević: Sonata for cello and piano in E minor, op. 35 (1913-1915)
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Leoš Janáček: Pohádka (Fairy Tale) for cello and piano (1910-1923)
Anton von Weber: Three Little Pieces for cello and piano, Op. 11 (1914)
Claude Debussy: Sonata for cello and piano in D minor, L. 145 (1915)

Latica Anić (Zagreb, 1994) started studying cello in the class of Mihovil Karuza at the age of seven. She actively participated in masterclasses with cellists and pedagogues such as Miklós Perényi, Jérôme Pernoo, László Fenyö, Jens Peter Maintz, Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, Gary Hoffman and others, and as a scholarship holder of the Musik und Jugend foundation she attended Valter Dešpalj’s masterclasses at Music Academy in Liechtenstein. Since 2010, she has been a student of Valter Dešpalj at the Academy of Music in Zagreb and the Academy of Music of the Principality of Liechtenstein. Academic year 2014/2015. she spent as part of the Erasmus program at the Academy of Music in Karlsruhe in the class of Lászl Fenyö. She graduated in Zagreb in 2016, and since October of the same year she has been improving her skills in the classes of Raphael Merlin and Michel Strauss at the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Boulogne-Billancourt in Paris.

She is the winner of national and international competitions, among which the first prizes at the International Cello Competition in Liezen, Austria and at the Third Croatian Competition of Young Musical Artists Papandopulo in Zagreb stand out. 

In 2015, she won the City of Samobor Award at the 12th Ferdo Livadić International Competition of Young Musicians in Samobor for the best performance of a work by a Croatian composer (B. Papandopulo: Rapsodia concertante). In April 2017, she became the winner of the 50th Darko Lukić Jubilee Concert Cycle. In 2020, she received the City of Omiš Plaque, and a year later she was a semi-finalist at the World Vision Music Contest.

She has made notable chamber music performances in Germany and the Czech Republic, playing with distinguished musicians such as pianist Matthias Kirchnereit, violist Razvan Popovici, hornist Přemysl Vojta, pianist Jonathan Aner and clarinetist Shirley Brill. She has collaborated with members of such ensembles as the Ébène Quartet and the Kuss Quartet and is also a member of the Esperanza ensemble. In 2018, in collaboration with pianist Lovro Marušić, she founded the Ostinato International Chamber Music Festival in Omiš. In the same year, she performed as a soloist with the HRT Symphony Orchestra and maestro Ivo Lipanović at the Lisinki Hall Day concert. In September 2019, she participated in the integral performance of L. van Beethoven’s Cello and Piano Sonata at the Croatian Music Institute in Zagreb, on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the composer’s birth.

As a soloist, she performed with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, the Pleven Philharmonic, the Zagreb Philharmonic, the Croatian Radio Television Symphony Orchestra, the Zagreb Soloists, the Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra and the Split Chamber Orchestra under the direction of distinguished conductors such as Aurélien Bello, Boguslav Davidow, Mladen Tarbuk, Tonči Bilić and Pavle Zaitsev. She gave solo recitals in Austria, Germany, France, Portugal, Liechtenstein and Switzerland, performing at international music festivals such as Next Generation Festival in Switzerland, Sommerliche Musiktage in Hitzacker, Germany, Katya Popova Festival in Bulgaria and Vaduz Classic in Liechtenstein.