Ivan's second string quartet,
Ascent to the Cold
Mountain was premiered by the Split String Quartet at
the concert on December 5, 2011 in the Croatian National Theatre
in Split.
Les Printemps Passe
for cello and piano was chosen for the project
Cage99 of the French
modern music ensemble
Decadanse. The premiere was held on October 29, 2011 in
Montreuil with Christine Radais, cello and Tristran-Patrice
Challulau, piano.
On the same date – October 29 - but on a different continent,
another of Ivan's compositions received its premiere. It was
The Everlasting Voices
for mixed choir, which has won Honorable Mention at the
Freudig Singers
Composition Competition. Roland E. Martin was conducting the
Freudig Singers at the concert held in Buffalo, New York.
Split
Guitar
Quartet premiered the 4-guitar version of
I’m still working on it
at the concert on October 19, during the festival
Days of New Music in
Split.
Monkey Face
for violin, viola, cello and piano has won the First Prize at
the 2011
Garth Newel Composition Competition. The premiere was held on August 27,
2011 at the Garth Newel Music Centre in Hot Springs, Virginia
with Ivan giving a presentation of the piece before the
performance. The performers were Teresa Ling, violin, Evelyn
Grau, viola, Jan Müller-Szeraws, cello and Misuzu Tanaka, piano.
Ivan's music was chosen again to be presented at the
international project
Invitation to Composers, organized by the
London Schubert Players
and funded by the European Council. This time it was
Spring Passes for
piano 4-hands and string quintet, premiered at London's Bolivar
Hall on June 29, 2011. Alberto Potugheis and Anda Anastasescu,
piano, Alicja Smietana and Anca Campanie, violins, Mihai Cocea,
viola, Nikolay Ginov, cello and Doo Wong Chung, double bass,
gave a compelling first performance of the piece.
Raven's Pass
for basset clarinet and piano has won the First Prize at the
2010
Anton Stadler Composition
Competition. The piece was first performed on May 6, 2011 in
London by Dr. Marc Naylor, basset clarinet and Karen Newby,
piano and is scheduled for publication by Edition Lyriques.
The HRT Jazz Big Band with Saša Nestorović, conductor, performed Ivan’s
jazz piece
Mareta at the concert on March 15, in Studio Bajsić, Zagreb. The
show
was recorded by Croatian
national
radio and
television and aired a month later.