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Zvjezdan Vojvodić

 

ZVJEZDAN VOJVODIĆ from Croatia became the absolute winner in the Piano and Masters Final nominations, i.е. the absolute winner of all competitive nominations and the entire WORLD OPEN MUSIC COMPETITION 2021 and as the main prize, received an invitation from our jury member, HELEN BERGER, to participate in the Cap Ferret Music Festival (France) which was held from July 9 to 16 2022.

Here are impressions from Zvjezdan Vojvodić…

Hello, my name is Zvjezdan Vojvodić and I am 19. I study at the RCM in London, with my professors Ian Jones, Dorian Leljak and Dinara Klinton. When I was still in Croatia with my school professor Ivanka Kordić, I participated in WORLD OPEN Music Competition 2021 and eventually, I became the winner of the entire competition.

The best part was that I received an invitation from one of the jury member Helen Berger to participate in the Cap Ferret Music Festival (France) which took place from 9th to 16th of July this summer. My visit to Cap Ferret Music Festival was my first time visiting France and also my first participation on big summer music festivals. And my music summer begun…

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My trip was not the easiest due to the cancellation of the plane trip the day before the scheduled departure and the night-hours difficulties of finding another affordable airline and train to arrive at Cap Ferret in time. However, when I came everything was beautiful. Cap Ferret is a peninsula, situated at the south end of the commune of Lège-Cap-Ferret in the French department of Gironde. It separates the Atlantic Ocean from Archachon Bay which I sailed across twice. Once when I was coming and the second time when we have had an organized trip along the bay…

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Cap Ferret is famous for its lighthouse. The bay side of the sea it’s quite nice and more similar to our Adriatic but the ocean side is fantastic…that’s something you should see…

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The music festival is held annually, and it has everything: daily concerts (a pick of each night), young talents platform, masterclasses, public lectures and public masterclasses. Events are performed on beautiful stages all over the peninsula. I must praise great organization and helpful and cordial local people.

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Zvjezdan Vojvodić

Zvjezdan Vojvodić

My recital was the first in a row for the young talents. It was placed in beautiful Chapelle de l’Herbe on Saturday the 9th of July. Since it was the first day of the festival, I was really surprised with the public…The church was full nevertheless the heat… My performance of Chopin music was accepted with great joy and great applause. After me, two other young musicians on the flute have been performed.

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I was privileged to have masterclasses during the week with the great pianist and above all the great man teacher Raffy Besalyan. It was a real pleasure working with him and I hope he enjoyed my Chopin too. I was invited, as his student at the festival, to play in a public masterclass and it was a great experience too. I think the public enjoyed it.

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In a place called Lège, I was also honoured to become a part of a Défilé de Pianistes, despite my young and early age. It was hard to play after recognized and appreciated pianists like Eric Artz, duo Caroline Batt and Aoko Soga, Hugo Panaonacle, Alice Taglioni and before Raffy Besalyan. Once more I must laud the audience who patiently sat and listened to the piano repertoire for three hours, clearly enjoying itself. This concert was an Hommage a Aquiles delle Vigne who was a great French pianist and teacher and among all pupils of Claudio Arrau and György Cziffra. He was a distinguished Professor at the Codarts University for the Arts in Rotterdam and at the École Normale de Musique de Paris “Alfred Cortot” and served as Jury in the most important international piano competitions on the planet like Sydney, Franz Liszt in Weimar, Monte-Carlo and many other…

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Besides the fact that it was the hottest day of my life, and I’ve already had a performance on the Défilé de Pianistes, I couldn’t miss the invitation to play at the last Young talent concert. It was also in the church Chapelle de l’Herbe… since my performance was the last one it was my pleasure to play some easier notes of Gerswhin’s songs “The man I love” and “I’ve got rhythm”. Finally, I must say that the audience was more than perfect… After two hours on a really hot day, they sent off with applause every one of us…

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Once more I really want to thank the World open online Music competition and the “Mir production” and especially Helene Berger, who believed in me and invited me to her festival. I am honoured and still full of impressions from my trip to France. It will surely be one of the important steps for my further education and advancement in music.

Zvjezdan Vojvodić

European Association of Music Educators and Performers & Producer Agency MIR Production with such a distribution of the prize fund helps talented young musicians, some of the winners of the WORLD OPEN MUSIC COMPETITION in promoting their music career, professional growth and opens for them new horizons in the music world.