Musiksommer: Mia Pecnik

"Piano Recital"

Classical

For the first time in Bad Schallerbach: The young Croatian pianist Mia Pecnik, who has received over 80 first and special prizes at national and international competitions around the world!

Mia Pecnik: Piano

Admission: € 26.00
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Mia Pecnik

Mia Pecnik is a Croatian pianist and a student at the University of Music and Dance in Cologne in the class of Prof. Andreas Frölich. Since 2017, she has been perfecting her playing at the Talent Music Master Courses – University of Music in Brescia, where she works with renowned pianists and educators. She began her musical education at the Vatroslav Lisinski Music School in Zagreb. During her school years, she was a scholarship holder of the City of Zagreb for outstanding performances. 

She is a winner of the most important Croatian awards for young musicians, including The Young Musician of the Year Award from the Zagreb Philharmonic (2019) and the Ivo Vuljevic Prize for the best young Croatian musician (2020). As part of the 45th Samobor Music Autumn, she received the City of Samobor Award and the Croatian Composers' Association Award. In 2022, she was crowned the winner of the cycle for young musicians "Maestro Vinko Lesic". At national competitions, she has won first prizes both as a soloist and in chamber music, and she is a multiple award winner of the Oscar of Knowledge, awarded by the Croatian Ministry of Science and Education to the best students in the country. Additionally, she was awarded the City of Sveta Nedelja Prize for outstanding achievements in music culture. 

At international competitions around the world, she has won over 80 first and special prizes, including César Franck in Brussels, Ciudad de Leganés in Madrid, Danubia Talents in Budapest, the EPTA Competition in Belgium, the Debut International Piano Competition in New York, Ars Nova in Trieste, and Piano Talents in Milan. She participated in the Cleveland Piano Competition in Paris, the Telekom Beethoven Competition in Bonn, the Paderewski Competition in Poland, and the Liszt Utrecht Competition in the Netherlands. 

She was a scholarship holder of the Werner Richard – Dr. Carl Dörken Foundation, which accepted her into the concert cycle "Best of NRW" after a successful audition, allowing her to perform 13 solo recitals in the 2022/2023 season. 

She has performed with orchestras around 30 times, making her debut at the age of 11, and at 15 she performed for the first time with the Zagreb Philharmonic under the direction of Maestro Pavle Dešpalj. She has also collaborated with this orchestra in Kuwait, at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, and in Zagreb, among others at the Croatian National Theatre and five times at the Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall. In addition, she has performed with the Symphony Orchestra of the Croatian National Theatre in Osijek, twice with the Bazzini Consort Orchestra in Brescia, with the Young Symphony Orchestra in Opole (Poland), several times with the Master Orchestra in Verona and Brescia, three times with the Zagreb Soloists, and with the Symphony Orchestra of Croatian Radio and Television (HRT) in the final of the Eurovision Young Musicians Competition. In 2020, she performed with the Festival Orchestra of the St. Markus Festival. In 2021, she appeared with the Kraków Philharmonic, in 2022 with the Mihail Jora Philharmonic Orchestra of Bacau at the Città di Cantù Festival in Italy, and in 2023 with the Zagreb Philharmonic at the "Dora Pejacevic" Festival, where she performed their Piano Concerto in G minor. 

She has performed solo at numerous festivals, including the Notting Hill Concert Series in London, the American Fine Arts Festival at Carnegie Hall in New York, the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco, Danubia Talents in Budapest, Young Artists in Kraków, the Gorczycki Festival, Filharmonia Slaska in Katowice, Chopinfest October Echoes in Belgrade, MuseArt in Bucharest, Marbella Music Festival in Spain, the Opening Concert of the IV. Piano Competition City of Vigo in Spain, Zagreb – City of Female Artists in Trieste, Palermoclassica Festival in Sicily, the Ruhr Piano Festival in Germany, Open Chamber Festival in Dortmund at the Orchesterzentrum NRW, Salle Cortot in Paris, the 69th Split Summer Festival, Szene Amadeo, the Epidarius Festival in Cavtat, the Pianoloop Festival in Split, Zvjezdano ljeto in Karlovac, the 46th Samobor Music Autumn, the concert season 2021/2022 in Zadar, and the concert seasons 2022, 2023, and 2024 in Osijek, the cycle for young musicians Jakov Gotovac in Split, Un fiume di note – Musicae in Opatija and Gorizia, Svetislav Stancic Pleyel in Zagreb, and the Lisianum Art Festival. 

She regularly attended masterclasses with esteemed pianists and educators such as Andrzej Jasinski, Piotr Paleczny, Ewa Poblocka, Dang Thai Son, Jacques Rouvier, Eugen Indjic, Yurij Kot, Milana Chernyavska, Norma Fisher, Pavel Gililov, Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Natalia Trull, Konstantin Bogino, Igor Lasko, Vladimir Viardo, Yuri Bogdanov, Lev Natochenny, Grigory Gruzman, Dmitri Alexeev, Ashley Wass, and Ruben Dalibaltayan. 

With cellist Petra Kušan and violinist Eva Mach, she is a member of the Samobor Piano Trio, which despite its short existence has already achieved successful performances in Samobor, Zagreb at the Szene Amadeo, and in Vienna. 

She has recorded for Croatian Radio HRT, Hungarian television, and RTL. In 2022, she recorded Dora Pejacevic's Piano Concerto in G minor with the Zagreb Philharmonic under the direction of Maestro Jan Latham-Koenig for Croatia Records. In addition to numerous performances, she plans this year, as the winner of the Recording Prize Competition Brescia, to record a solo album in Italy as well as the CD "In modo Croatico" with the Samobor Piano Trio. 

Program

Bach/Marcello
Concerto in D minor BWV 974

N. Medtner
Sonata Reminiscenza op. 38

F. Chopin
Ballade in F major, op. 38
Nocturne op. 27 no. 1
Ballade in F minor, op. 52

A. Ginastera
Danzas Argentinas op. 2

M. Ravel
La valse

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