KREŠIMIR STARČEVIĆ
MARCO GRAZIANI, violin
&
KREŠIMIR STARČEVIĆ, piano
KREŠIMIR STARČEVIĆ
MARCO GRAZIANI, violin
&
KREŠIMIR STARČEVIĆ, piano
Suggested Program:
Anthology of Croatian Music for Violin and Piano
Dora Pejačević: Sonata for violin and piano No. 1 in D major, Op. 26 (1909)
Franjo Krežma: Romance in A major for violin and piano (1879)
Scherzino for violin and piano Op. 4 no. 2 (1878)
Blagoje Bersa: Povero Tonin, elegy for violin and piano (1892)
Dubravko Detoni: 22 per 2 in 2, for violin and piano (1983)
Boris Papandopulo: Suite for violin and piano, Op. 12 (1929)
Marco Graziani (Rijeka, 1988) started learning the violin at the age of seven with Krunoslav Peljhan at the music school of I. M. Ronjgov in Rijeka, and since 2000 with Leonid Sorokow, in whose class he graduated from the Academy of Music in Zagreb in 2010, earning a master’s degree in music. In the same year, he became an assistant at the Academy of Music in Zagreb where he has his own class from 2016. He has been the concert master of the Zadar Chamber Orchestra since 2011, and from 2012 to 2016 he held the position of concert master of the orchestra of the Croatian National Theater in Zagreb.
He regularly attended many masterclasses in Croatia, Austria, Italy and Japan, under the guidance of professors Dora Schwarzberg, Marina and Leonid Sorokow, Alexander Vinnitzkog, Pavel Vernikov, Pinchas Zukerman, Viktor Tretyakov, Gerhard Schulz and Zakhar Bron. He attended summer masterclasses in Siena, at the Accademia Chigiana, and, thanks to the Stauffer Foundation, monthly masterclasses held by the famous Italian violinist Salvatore Accardo in Cremona.
As a soloist and member of various chamber ensembles, he performs at numerous national and international competitions where he achieves remarkable results. He is a multiple winner of first prizes at the Croatian NationalCompetitions, Etudes and Scales competition, the Alfredo and Wanda Marcosig European competition in Gorizia, the Lions Club Rijeka Grand Prix competition and the Istria Nobilissima competition, where, apart from the first awards, also won a special award in the form of sound recording in Trieste. He recorded his first CD with the distinguished Armenian pianist Ruben Dalibaltayan.
He is a laureate of major international competitions in Lisbon, Moscow, Astana and Vienna. He was declared the most successful young musician of the year in 2006 and won the prize of the Zagreb Philharmonic and the PBZ Card. He also won the Stjepan Šulek state award for the best violinist performance in 2005 and 2006 for the performance oProkofiev’s First Violin Concerto. In 2007, he received the annual award of the city of Rijeka and he is the winner of the Ivo Vuljević award for overall artistic activity in 2014.
As a soloist, in chamber ensembles and with orchestras, he has successfully presented to audiences in Croatia, Austria, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy, the Netherlands, Lithuania, Germany, Portugal, Poland, Japan and Russia. He performed as a soloist with the Slovenian Philharmonic, the Festival Symphony Orchestra in Lisbon, the Kaunas Philharmonic, the Vojvodina Symphony Orchestra, the Zagreb Philharmonic, Croatian Radiotelevision Symphony Orchestra, the Opera Orchestra of the Ivan pl. Zajc Theatre in Rijeka, with the Orchestra of the Croatian National Opera in Split, the Zagreb Soloists and the Croatian, Split, Zadar and Varaždin Chamber Orchestras.
In 2009, he recorded his CD in collaboration with cellist Stjepan Hauser, which includes works by Bach, Kodaly, Sollima and Händel/Halvorsen. In 2011, he founded the Croatian String Quartet, with which he performed numerous notable performances and won the Darko Lukić Concert Cycle competition in Zagreb in 2014. In 2012, he won the first prize at the first edition of the Croatian Young Music Artists Competition Papandopulo. Two years later, he was awarded the Judith Award for his performance at Split Summer, for the performance of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto.