Next Program: East meets West
- January 16th, 2009 / 7.00 p.m. / MACM
- January 17th, 2009 / 4.00 p.m. / MACM
Conductor: Gudni A. Emilsson
Soloist: Ratimir Martinovic, Piano
Program:
- Thai Traditional Music
- Alexander Scriabin: Piano Concerto in F sharp minor, op.20
- Peter I. Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.3 in D major, op.29 “Polish”
Hear the TPO present their first-ever performance of Tchaikovsky’s colorful Third Symphony, the only seven symphonies from the composer in a major key. Also take this opportunity to sample the only concerto written by the Russian composer, Alexander Scriabin, featuring pianist Ratimir Martinovic from Montenegro.
Ratimir Martinovic, Piano
“The ideal combination of intellect, technique and passion, refinement of touch, perfect technique, concentration and control, exceptional dynamic potential, original ideas and unconventional interpretation” give Ratimir Martinović, by the critics’ words, one of the leading places among pianists of the younger generation.
Born in Kotor, where he completed the elementary music school, he continued his education in Novi Sad at the “Isidor Bajic” Music school and at the Academy of Art in the class of the world-renowned pianist Kemal Gekic. He graduated in 1999 playing in one night Bach’s ‘Goldberg Variations’, Beethoven’s Hammerklavier’ Sonata, Chopin’s Four Balllades, and Prokofiev’s Toccata to great critical aclaim.
He has had advanced studies with well-known pedagogues and pianists such as Karl-Heinz Kammerling, Hiroko Nakamura, Jacques Rouvier, Arie Vardi, Sergio Perticaroli, Arbo Valdma, Alexei Nasedkin, Jelena Richter, Victor Liadov ans Marian Ribicky.
He has performed in over 450 recitals, chamber concerts, concertos with orchestra. He played in all major domestic concert halls such as the Sava centar, Kolarac Memorial Hall, the Montenegrin National Theater, the Novi Sad Sinagogue, the Serbian National Theatre, Subotica Town Hall, as well as on podiums in Rome (Sala Baldini), Beijing (Beijing University), Shanghai (Oriental Arts Center), Buenos Aires (Hall of University Maimonides), Guanhzhou (University hall), Florence (Hall of French Cultural Center), Salzburg (Leopold Mozart Hall), Bonn, London (St. James Picadilly, St. John’s Smith Square), Taipei (Small Hall of the National Theater), Miami (FIU Great Hall), Helsinki (Sibelius Academy Hall), Paris (UNESCO hall), Helsingborg (Great hall of Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra), Cologne (Deutche Welle Hall), Zagreb (Lisinski Hall), Luxembourg (Auditoire Banque de Luxembourg), Turku, Warsaw, Hamamatsu and elsewhere.
Martinović plays as soloist with orchestras such as: Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, Plovdiv State Symphony Orchestra, Ciuddad de Juarez Symphony Orchestra, Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, Miami Festival Orchestra, Young European Soloists Chamber Orchestra (South-Eastern Europe), Vojvodina Symphony Orchestra, Radio-Televison Serbia Symphony Orchestra, Tapiolla Simfonietta, and many other, colaborating with conductors such as Emil Tabakov, Young Chil Lee, Frank Foncubert, Peter Sundkvist, Carlos Garcia Ruiz, William Noll, Jorge Ulliarte, David Porceline, Andrej Bursac, Aleksandar Ostrovski, Angel Surev, Pavle Medakovic, Petar Ivanovic and others.
Martinović is also an experienced chamber musician performing regularly with violinists Roman Simovic and Yuri Zhislin, the Rubicon, Tippett (Great Britain) and TAJJ (Serbia) string quartets, cellist Bozidar Vukotic, percussionist Benn Toth, soprano Snezana Savicic and others.
He has recorded for Radio Television Montenegro, Radio Television Serbia, POLTEL(Poland), Deutche Welle(Germany), NHK(Japan), SWT(Sweden), Luxembourg Television, HRT (Croatia), Radio Slovenia and Radio Romania.
He received his Masters degree in 2002, playing an all Bach program. At present, Martinovi?ćworks at the Academy of Arts, as the youngest piano professor. During 2008-2009 season he will be playing in Greece, Turkey, Ukraine, USA, Canada, China, Italy, Cyprus, Slovenia, France, Vatican, Thailand, South Korea, Great Britain, Serbia and Croatia.
