Ratimir Martinovic
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Ratimir Martinović is an award-winning Montenegrin pianist
.
, Montenegro
, then Yugoslavia
, where he completed the elementary music school; he continued his education in Novi Sad
at the Isidor Bajić
Music school and at the Academy of Art in the class of the world-renowned pianist Kemal Gekić
. He graduated in 1999 playing in
one night Bach's »Goldberg Variations
«, Beethoven's »Hammerklavier« Sonata
, Chopin's Four Ballades, and Prokofiev's Toccata to great critical acclaim.
He received his Masters degree in 2002, playing an all Bach
program.
At present, Martinović works at the Academy of Arts, as the youngest piano
professor.
He has had advanced studies with well-known pedagogues and pianists such as Karl-Heinz Kämmerling
, Hiroko Nakamura
, Jacques Rouvier
, Arie Vardi
, Sergio Perticaroli, Arbo Valdma
, Alexei Nasedkin, Jelena Richter, Victor Liadov and Marian Ribicky.
He has performed in over 350 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 Synagogue
, the Serbia
n National Theatre, Subotica
Town Hall, as well as on podiums in Rome (Sala Baldini), 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), Warsaw, Hamamatsu, Paris (UNESCO hall), Helsingborg (Great hall of Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra), Cologne (Deutsche Welle Hall), Zagreb (Lisinski Hall), Luxembourg (Auditoire Banque de Luxembourg), Turku and elsewhere.
Martinović plays as soloist with orchestras such as the Belgrade
Philharmonic Orchestra, the Novi Sad
Chamber Orchestra, Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, the Young European Soloists Chamber Orchestra (South-Eastern Europe), Vojvodina
Symphony Orchestra
, »Saint George« String Orchestra
, the Radio-Television Serbia
Symphony Orchestra, the Stanislav Binicki Symhony Orchestra, Academy of Arts Symphony Orchestra, Niš
Symphony Orchestra, Tapiolla Simfonietta, Ciuddad de Juarez Chamber Orchestra, collaborating with conductors such as Emil Tabakov, Peter Sundkvist, Carlos Garcia Ruiz, David Porceline, Andrej Bursać, Aleksandar Ostrovski, Angel Surev, Pavle Medaković and Petar Ivanović.
He regularly performs in festivals such as, NOMUS (Novi Sad Music Festival), NIMUS (Nis Music Festival), Mozart Point Festival (Ljubljana), BEMUS (Belgrade Music Festival), Festival of the Nations (Rome), Beethoven Fest (Bonn), Budva Summer Festival, OKTOH (Kragujevac), KotorArt (Kotor)
Martinović is also an experienced chamber musician performing regularly with violinist Roman Simović (2005 winner of Lipizer competition
), the Rubicon, Tippett (Great Britain) and TAJJ string quartet, cellists Bozidar Vukotić and Dragan Djordjević, percussionist Benn Toth and others.
After initial successes in piano
competitions at very early age, Ratimir Martinović withdrew from the competition scene, devoting his time to playing concerts.
for a compulsory author and a performance of Chopin’s works, Taipei, 1996
He has recorded for Radio Television of Montenegro
, Radio Television of Serbia, POLTEL(Poland), Deutsche Welle (Germany), NHK (Japan
), SVT (Sweden
), Luxembourg Television, HRT (Croatia
), Radio Slovenia and Radio Romania.
He has recorded two CDs, one with the works by Bach/Tausing, Mozart, Chopin, Brahms, Prokofiev and the »Goldberg variations«.
Martinović initiated a successful collaboration with the TV director Misko Milojevic in the field of visualisation of classical music opening new dimensions of visual and multimedial interpretation of music. To date, he has made seven video-clips (Ginastera, Prokofiev, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Bach, Brahms, Ravel) produced by Radio Television Montenegro and Radio Television Serbia, broadcast with great success, so far, in Serbia, The Czech Republic, Canada, Bulgaria, Tunisia. In 2006 a DVD with all 7 classical music spots will be released by KotorArt Production.
Five documentary movies have been recorded about his work, of which the last one, »The Heaven And Soul« has won first prize in the International TV Festival in Albena, Bulgaria in 2004, and was officially the »Best musical TV production in 2004.« in Radio-Television Serbia.
Martinović made his conducting debut in 2001. with the Novi Sad Chamber Orchestra, conducting Symphonies by Haydn and Mozart and playing and conducting the Mozart Piano
Concerto F Major KV 459.
Ratimir Martinović is the founder and Artistic director of KotorArt Music festival, held every year in Kotor
, Montenegro, bringing to this medieval town ensembles such as the Zagreb Philharmonic, the Vojvodina Symphony, the Split Chamber Orchestra, “LADO” and soloist and teachers such as Mikhail Voskresensky, Aleksandar Madzar, Konstantin Bogino, Grigory Zhislin, Itamar Golan, Lovro Pogorelich, Francesco Libetta, and many others.
»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.
Martinović is President of EPTA
Montenegro (European Piano Teachers Association).
Piano
The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
.
Biography
Martinović was born in KotorKotor
Kotor is a coastal city in Montenegro. It is located in a secluded part of the Gulf of Kotor. The city has a population of 13,510 and is the administrative center of the municipality....
, Montenegro
Montenegro
Montenegro Montenegrin: Crna Gora Црна Гора , meaning "Black Mountain") is a country located in Southeastern Europe. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the south-west and is bordered by Croatia to the west, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the northwest, Serbia to the northeast and Albania to the...
, then Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....
, where he completed the elementary music school; he continued his education in Novi Sad
Novi Sad
Novi Sad is the capital of the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina, and the administrative centre of the South Bačka District. The city is located in the southern part of Pannonian Plain on the Danube river....
at the Isidor Bajić
Isidor Bajic
Isidor Bajic was a Serbian composer, pedagogue, and publisher.He was born in Kula...
Music school and at the Academy of Art in the class of the world-renowned pianist Kemal Gekić
Kemal Gekic
Kemal Gekić is an American classical pianist and Professor of Piano at the Florida International University. He is renowned for his performances of Franz Liszt's works. He is of Bosnian ancestry, his parents are from Livno in Bosnia and Herzegovina-External links:** at the FIU School of Music...
. He graduated in 1999 playing in
one night Bach's »Goldberg Variations
Goldberg Variations
The Goldberg Variations, BWV 988, is a work for harpsichord by Johann Sebastian Bach, consisting of an aria and a set of 30 variations. First published in 1741, the work is considered to be one of the most important examples of variation form...
«, Beethoven's »Hammerklavier« Sonata
Sonata
Sonata , in music, literally means a piece played as opposed to a cantata , a piece sung. The term, being vague, naturally evolved through the history of music, designating a variety of forms prior to the Classical era...
, Chopin's Four Ballades, and Prokofiev's Toccata to great critical acclaim.
He received his Masters degree in 2002, playing an all Bach
Bạch
Bạch is a Vietnamese surname. The name is transliterated as Bai in Chinese and Baek, in Korean.Bach is the anglicized variation of the surname Bạch.-Notable people with the surname Bạch:* Bạch Liêu...
program.
At present, Martinović works at the Academy of Arts, as the youngest piano
Piano
The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
professor.
He has had advanced studies with well-known pedagogues and pianists such as Karl-Heinz Kämmerling
Karl-Heinz Kämmerling
Karl-Heinz Kämmerling is a notable German academic teacher of classical pianists, who prepared at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover pianists for a career as performers and academic teachers, particularly in the early training of highly gifted...
, Hiroko Nakamura
Hiroko Nakamura
is a Japanese pianist. She is the youngest, and the second Japanese prizewinner at the 7th International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition...
, Jacques Rouvier
Jacques Rouvier
Jacques Rouvier is a French pianist. He studied at the Paris Conservatory with Jean Hubeau, Vlado Perlemuter, and Pierre Sancan. He took two Premiers Prix : in piano performance and in chamber music .Rouvier was remarkably successful at piano competitions in his youth...
, Arie Vardi
Arie Vardi
Arie Vardi is an Israeli classical pianist and piano pedagogue.He is currently teaching at the Buhmann-Mehta Academy of Music in Tel Aviv, the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hanover and at the Bowdoin International Music Festival in Brunswick, Maine...
, Sergio Perticaroli, Arbo Valdma
Arbo Valdma
Arbo Valdma is a Serbian pianist and music pedagogue of Estonian heritage. He is a professor of piano at the University of Music in Cologne...
, Alexei Nasedkin, Jelena Richter, Victor Liadov and Marian Ribicky.
He has performed in over 350 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 Synagogue
Synagogue
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, the Serbia
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
n National Theatre, Subotica
Subotica
Subotica is a city and municipality in northern Serbia, in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina...
Town Hall, as well as on podiums in Rome (Sala Baldini), 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), Warsaw, Hamamatsu, Paris (UNESCO hall), Helsingborg (Great hall of Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra), Cologne (Deutsche Welle Hall), Zagreb (Lisinski Hall), Luxembourg (Auditoire Banque de Luxembourg), Turku and elsewhere.
Martinović plays as soloist with orchestras such as the Belgrade
Belgrade
Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...
Philharmonic Orchestra, the Novi Sad
Novi Sad
Novi Sad is the capital of the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina, and the administrative centre of the South Bačka District. The city is located in the southern part of Pannonian Plain on the Danube river....
Chamber Orchestra, Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, the Young European Soloists Chamber Orchestra (South-Eastern Europe), Vojvodina
Vojvodina
Vojvodina, officially called Autonomous Province of Vojvodina is an autonomous province of Serbia. Its capital and largest city is Novi Sad...
Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra
An orchestra is a sizable instrumental ensemble that contains sections of string, brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. The term orchestra derives from the Greek ορχήστρα, the name for the area in front of an ancient Greek stage reserved for the Greek chorus...
, »Saint George« String Orchestra
String orchestra
A string orchestra is an orchestra composed solely or primarily of instruments from the string family. These instruments are the violin, the viola, the cello, the double bass , the piano, the harp, and sometimes percussion...
, the Radio-Television Serbia
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
Symphony Orchestra, the Stanislav Binicki Symhony Orchestra, Academy of Arts Symphony Orchestra, Niš
Niš
Niš is the largest city of southern Serbia and third-largest city in Serbia . According to the data from 2011, the city of Niš has a population of 177,972 inhabitants, while the city municipality has a population of 257,867. The city covers an area of about 597 km2, including the urban area,...
Symphony Orchestra, Tapiolla Simfonietta, Ciuddad de Juarez Chamber Orchestra, collaborating with conductors such as Emil Tabakov, Peter Sundkvist, Carlos Garcia Ruiz, David Porceline, Andrej Bursać, Aleksandar Ostrovski, Angel Surev, Pavle Medaković and Petar Ivanović.
He regularly performs in festivals such as, NOMUS (Novi Sad Music Festival), NIMUS (Nis Music Festival), Mozart Point Festival (Ljubljana), BEMUS (Belgrade Music Festival), Festival of the Nations (Rome), Beethoven Fest (Bonn), Budva Summer Festival, OKTOH (Kragujevac), KotorArt (Kotor)
Martinović is also an experienced chamber musician performing regularly with violinist Roman Simović (2005 winner of Lipizer competition
Competition
Competition is a contest between individuals, groups, animals, etc. for territory, a niche, or a location of resources. It arises whenever two and only two strive for a goal which cannot be shared. Competition occurs naturally between living organisms which co-exist in the same environment. For...
), the Rubicon, Tippett (Great Britain) and TAJJ string quartet, cellists Bozidar Vukotić and Dragan Djordjević, percussionist Benn Toth and others.
After initial successes in piano
Piano
The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
competitions at very early age, Ratimir Martinović withdrew from the competition scene, devoting his time to playing concerts.
Awards
He is the winner of domestic and international awards and tributes.- First prize, Montenegro National competition, KotorKotorKotor is a coastal city in Montenegro. It is located in a secluded part of the Gulf of Kotor. The city has a population of 13,510 and is the administrative center of the municipality....
, 1990, 1991 - First Prize, The Yugoslav piano Competition, Niš, 1993
- First Prize, The Dunav-Donau-Denjub International Piano Competition, Novi Sad, 1993
- First Prize, International Frederic Chopin Piano Competition, Taipei, 1996
- Two Special Prizes (awarded by the president of the jury),
for a compulsory author and a performance of Chopin’s works, Taipei, 1996
- First Prize, The “FLAME” International Competition, ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, 1997 - Fourth Prize, Bronze Medal, South Missouri International Piano Competition, Joplin, USA, 1994
- Special prize from the University of Novi SadUniversity of Novi SadThe University of Novi Sad is a university located in Novi Sad, the capital of Serbian province of Vojvodina and the second largest city in Serbia....
, for outstanding talent, 1997, 1998 - Prize for the »Most promissin young artist of the year«, (ZAMTES) MontenegroMontenegroMontenegro Montenegrin: Crna Gora Црна Гора , meaning "Black Mountain") is a country located in Southeastern Europe. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the south-west and is bordered by Croatia to the west, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the northwest, Serbia to the northeast and Albania to the...
, 1999
Discography
- Debut recording (Bach/Tausig, Mozart, Chopin, Brahms, Prokofiev) (2001)
- Bach (Goldberg variationsGoldberg VariationsThe Goldberg Variations, BWV 988, is a work for harpsichord by Johann Sebastian Bach, consisting of an aria and a set of 30 variations. First published in 1741, the work is considered to be one of the most important examples of variation form...
BWV 988) - SkryabinSkryabinSkryabin may refer to* Alexander Scryabin , a Russian composer and pianist* Julian Scryabin , son of Alexander Scriabin* Konstantin Scryabin , a Russian biologist, founder of helminthology in Russia...
ConcertoConcertoA concerto is a musical work usually composed in three parts or movements, in which one solo instrument is accompanied by an orchestra.The etymology is uncertain, but the word seems to have originated from the conjunction of the two Latin words...
F Sharp Minor and Tchaikovsky Concerto No. 2 G major op. 44 - MendelssohnFelix MendelssohnJakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Barthóldy , use the form 'Mendelssohn' and not 'Mendelssohn Bartholdy'. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians gives ' Felix Mendelssohn' as the entry, with 'Mendelssohn' used in the body text...
:- Concerto G Minor
- Concerto A Minor (for string orchestra)
- Concerto for piano, violinViolinThe violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
and string orchestra
He has recorded for Radio Television of Montenegro
RTCG
Radio Television of Montenegro is the public broadcasting organization of Montenegro...
, Radio Television of Serbia, POLTEL(Poland), Deutsche Welle (Germany), NHK (Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
), SVT (Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
), Luxembourg Television, HRT (Croatia
Croatia
Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...
), Radio Slovenia and Radio Romania.
He has recorded two CDs, one with the works by Bach/Tausing, Mozart, Chopin, Brahms, Prokofiev and the »Goldberg variations«.
Martinović initiated a successful collaboration with the TV director Misko Milojevic in the field of visualisation of classical music opening new dimensions of visual and multimedial interpretation of music. To date, he has made seven video-clips (Ginastera, Prokofiev, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Bach, Brahms, Ravel) produced by Radio Television Montenegro and Radio Television Serbia, broadcast with great success, so far, in Serbia, The Czech Republic, Canada, Bulgaria, Tunisia. In 2006 a DVD with all 7 classical music spots will be released by KotorArt Production.
Five documentary movies have been recorded about his work, of which the last one, »The Heaven And Soul« has won first prize in the International TV Festival in Albena, Bulgaria in 2004, and was officially the »Best musical TV production in 2004.« in Radio-Television Serbia.
Martinović made his conducting debut in 2001. with the Novi Sad Chamber Orchestra, conducting Symphonies by Haydn and Mozart and playing and conducting the Mozart Piano
Piano
The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
Concerto F Major KV 459.
Ratimir Martinović is the founder and Artistic director of KotorArt Music festival, held every year in Kotor
Kotor
Kotor is a coastal city in Montenegro. It is located in a secluded part of the Gulf of Kotor. The city has a population of 13,510 and is the administrative center of the municipality....
, Montenegro, bringing to this medieval town ensembles such as the Zagreb Philharmonic, the Vojvodina Symphony, the Split Chamber Orchestra, “LADO” and soloist and teachers such as Mikhail Voskresensky, Aleksandar Madzar, Konstantin Bogino, Grigory Zhislin, Itamar Golan, Lovro Pogorelich, Francesco Libetta, and many others.
»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.
Martinović is President of EPTA
EPTA
EPTA can refer to:* European Parliamentary Technology Assessment* European Pulsar Timing Array* Phosphotungstic acid* European Piano Teachers Association* European Pilot Training Academy...
Montenegro (European Piano Teachers Association).
External links
- Official website
- Mp3 files (mp3MP3MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression...
format) - Video clips
- Mp3 files (mp3