- Dejan Bravničar
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Dejan Bravničar (born August 1, 1937 in Ljubljana) is a Slovenian violinist.
He studied at the Music School in Ljubljana, as a student in the class of Fran Stanič. He graduated from the Academy of Music in Ljubljana in 1957 under Karlo Rupel. From 1957 to 1960 he studied at the Moscow Conservatory in the class of the violinist David Oystrach and then trained at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome for a year under Italian violinist Pini Carmirelli.
He began solely as a concert performer and as a soloist has performed with many orchestras under notable conductors, but later he worked as an educator. He played in England, France, Austria, Bulgaria, the Netherlands, Hungary, Poland, Switzerland and elsewhere. He collaborated with many foreign conductors such as Paul Klecki, Kurt Sanderling, Kiril Kondrašin, Carlo Zecchi, Jean Martinon, Riccardo Mutti, and others. His repertoire includes more than 40 violin concertos by composers such as Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Paganini, Wieniawski, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Lalo, Sibelius, Karol Szymanowski, Khachaturian, Bartok, Stravinsky, Hindemith, Prokofiev, Shostakovich and also music of Slovenian composers.
Since 1967, he has been professor of violin at the Music Academy of Zagreb, and between 1993 and 2001 was also dean of the institution.[1]
His father was the composer Matija Bravničar.
References
- ^ "Bravnicar, Dejan red. prof.". University of Ljubljana Music Academy. http://www.ag.uni-lj.si/index.php?page=zaposleni&action=detail&zaposleni_id=9. Retrieved August 26, 2009.
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