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URL:https://music.colostate.edu/events/guest-artist-kemal-gekic-piano/
SUMMARY:Guest Artist: Kemal Gekic\, Piano
DESCRIPTION:Flamboyant\, daring\, provocative\, exciting\, seductive and se
 nsitive are some of the words used to describe one of today’s most formi
 dable pianists\, Kemal Gekic\, whose playing has been acclaimed worldwide 
 by public and critics alike. His daring approach to tone and form\, marked
  him as a maverick in the musical world\, a distinction he welcomes: the v
 ery strength of his artistry challenges\, provokes\, intrigues\n\nBorn in 
 Split\, Croatia in 1962\, Gekic amazed his family by accurately picking ou
 t melodies at the piano at age one and a half. The young prodigy received 
 all his early musical training from his aunt\, Lorenza Batturina. In 1978 
 he entered the class pf Prof. Jokuthon Mihailovich (a graduate of Moscow C
 onservatory) at the Art Academy of Novi Sad\, Yugoslavia. He graduated in 
 1982 with the highest mark ever granted a diploma exam recital\, and was i
 mmediately given a faculty appointment by the piano department which he ev
 entually directed until 1999. During his school years he won prizes at the
  Franz Liszt Competition in Parma (1981)\, the Viana da Motta in Lisbon (1
 983) and the Yugoslav Artists’ Competition in Zagreb (1984).\n\nHe earne
 d his Master’s degree in 1985\, the same year he created a sensation at 
 the Chopin Competition in Warsaw. Although panned by the jury he won the h
 earts of audience and critics alike\, and began receiving many invitations
  to perform abroad\, including several from the Chopin Society of Hannover
 \, Germany which had awarded him a special prize for best sonata performan
 ce at the competition. A recording of his Warsaw performances sold 60\,000
  copies in Germany by the end of the year\, and the Victor Entertainment C
 orporation\, Japan (JVC) sold 80\,000 copies of a CD version in their home
  country. The Warsaw Philharmonic invited Gekic to perform the E minor Cho
 pin Piano Concerto in Philharmonic Hall in their regular series that seaso
 n. In the same hall\, with the same orchestra as he would have done in the
  competition finals\, Gekic wowed the Warsaw once more\, and for an encore
  gave Chopin’s Third Sonata in B minor in its entirety! In the years fol
 lowing the 1985 Chopin Competition\, in addition to extensive concert acti
 vity in Germany\, Denmark\, Poland\, Czechoslovakia\, Bulgaria\, Spain\, F
 rance\, Italy\, Canada and of course Yugoslavia\, he completed tours of th
 e USSR and Japan-Southeast Rim. Programs of his life and his performances 
 were broadcast by RAI Italy\, TV Portugal\, TV Yugoslavia\, NHK Japan\, PO
 LTEL Poland\, RTV Lower Saxony West Germany\, RTV USSR\, Intervision\, CBC
  and PBS.\n\nIn 1999 he was invited to perform at the Miami International 
 Piano Festival. Minutes before he was to walk on stage\, a chance glance a
 t a television showed houses burning in his home town of Novi Sad. It was 
 March 24th: the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia had begun. Instead of cancellin
 g\, he went out on stage and played what many consider to be the best reci
 tal he ever gave\, one that launched his current reemergence as one of the
  major pianists of our century.\n\nPerforming worldwide from a vast repert
 oire\, Kemal Gekic presents fascinating\, uncompromising and ever-changing
  interpretations\, always generating frenzied audience enthusiasm.
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LOCATION:Organ Recital Hall\, University Center for the Arts\, 1400 Remingo
 n St.\, Fort Collins\, CO\, 80524\, United States
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