Child winner of many international competitions and awards, the pianist Anika Vavic went studying to Vienna at the age of 16, under Noel Flores at the University of Music and Performing Arts. Her musical development also received significant artistic inspiration from  Elisabeth Leonskaja, Lazar Berman, Oleg Maisenberg, Alexander Satz and Mstislaw Rostropovich.

Her first public performance was in her hometown Belgrade at the age of 8, and since then she has constantly toured in solo recitals, piano concerts, radio and TV programmes as well as in various chamber music formations, such as the „Horn-Trio-Wien“.

In  2001 she won the Steinway-Competition in Vienna, receiving a further special prize for the best interpretation of Haydn and was awarded a scholarship by the Karajan Centrum in Vienna and the Gottfried von Einem Foundation. In 2002 she was granted the Austrian National Award for Women in the Arts.

During the 2003/04 season Anika Vavic, presented by the Vienna Musikverein and Konzerthaus, was selected for the international «Rising Stars“ concert-cycle, playing in the most famous halls as Carnegie Hall in New York; Wigmore Hall in London; Concertgebouw in Amsterdam; Musikverein in Vienna; Philharmonie in Cologne; Megaron in Athens;  Palais des Beaux-Arts in Bruxelles and Cité de la Musique in Paris.  The cycle was combined with the release of her recital programme on CD produced by ORF and Vienna Musikverein.

In 2003 Anika gave her debut at Vienna Konzerthaus, ,in Munich with the Philharmonic Orchestra and Paavo Järvi, at  the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg and at Ruhr Piano Festival.  Since then Vavic has performed in Germany, GreatBritain, USA, Chile, Austria (Vienna Musikverein and Konzerthaus), Italy, Norway, .Japan, Russia ( Moscow and St-Petersburg) , Turkey, Belgrade, Finland, Spain, Switzerland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Hungary .

Last Summer she has been reinvited to St. Petersburg „White Nights Festival“ where she successfully performed Ravel's Piano Concerto under the baton of Valery Gergiev with the Mariinsky Orchestra.

This season Anika schedule features festivals such as „Svjatoslav Richter Festival“ in Russia, the „Ceresio Estate Festival“ in Italy, the Bergamo Festival, the „Penderecki Piano Festival“ in Poland, as well as performances in  Palermo,  Bogota,  Belgrade,  Nicosia,

Vienna,etc. Further invitations will bring her to Seoul, Tokyo and Rotterdam.

Further collaboration with Valery Gergiev will lead her again to the „White Nights Festival“ in St. Petersburg, where she will play a series of contemporary piano concertos by Kalevi Aho and  Rodion Shedrin.

Anika Vavic`s passion for literature made her write her first novel „Chromatics“ , a fictional story about a famous young Russian pianist, which throws a light on the life of the artist behind the scenes.

“I consider Anika Vavic to be an extraordinarily gifted pianist.”        Mariss Jansons

“Great talent, brilliant technique and smart and passionate playing.”  Zubin Mehta

“Beautiful playing, understanding of the classical style and great technique.”  Seiji Ozawa

“No denying that she is an important newcomer”   Gramophon

“The great gift of symphonic piano playing: as if several instruments were resounding at the same time“        

Daniel Barenboim

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