Washington, DC, December 18, 2003 - In its ongoing efforts to promote Croatia’s musical and cultural heritage in U.S. the Embassy of Republic of Croatia presented last evening a very special holiday season musical event. Renowned Croatian pianist Lovro Pogorelich presented the works of Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, Josip Slavenski and Sergei Prokofiev as part of the Croatian Embassy’s Christmas Concert held at the Embassy of Austria.
Lovro Pogorelich, who studied with the Russian pianist Konstantin Bogino and spent a year in Paris where he recorded a CD (Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition and Prokofiev, Sonata No. 7), has performed publicly since the age thirteen.
Mr. Pogorelich is a graduate of the Music Academy of Zagreb, where he has been piano instructor since 1998. In 1999 he founded the Pag Summer Festival and continues to serve as its artistic director. In 2001 he started teaching at the Lovro Pogorelich Summer Piano School in Koper, Slovenia.
In December 2002, Lovro
Pogorelich appeared at London’s Royal Festival Hall in a recital entitled ‘The
Pianist,’ promoting the music of Wladyslaw Szpilman, the composer and pianist
portrayed in Roman Polanski’s award-winning film of the same title.
Mr. Pogorelichs’ critically acclaimed recital and orchestral solo works have taken him across North America, Europe, and the Far East with the works of the Russian masters and Chopin maintaining a significant place in his repertoire.
More than 400 guests enthusiastically applauded Mr. Pogorelich’s performance last evening. The concert represents yet another successful collaboration between the Embassies of Croatia and Austria, who have together hosted popular events that have enriched cultural fabric of Washington’s diplomatic community.