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Wiesbaden News: "..- Petricevic does not play just guitar , we could say he lives the guitar . With subtlety, sensitivity, quiet shaded tonality , with delicate, more spotted than plucked sounds and a sound picture of filigree Fragility he impressed the audience from piece to piece more and more .... "
El Condado Ahora: "...professionalism, cleanliness in touch, technique and great musicality are the characteristics of Petricevic, which lately has won the most important competitions in the world of the guitar..."
Ivan Petricevic was born in 1987, Belgrade. He studied with Ante Cagalj at the "Elly Basic" Conservatory in Zagreb, Croatia and continued his studies with Alvaro Pierri and Walter Würdinger at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, Austria, as well as with Roberto Aussel at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne, Germany and with Tomasz Zawierucha at the Folkwang University of Arts in Essen, Germany.
As a guitarist, he has won over 30 awards in international competitions including 1. Prize and ALHAMBRA AWARD at Annual Texas Guitar Competition and Festival (2022, USA), 1. Prize "Concours International de Guitare" organized by Paris Guitar Foundation (2018, France), 1. Prize XXI Concurso Internacional de Guitarra Ciudad de Linares Andrés Segovia (2014, Spain), 1. Prize Concurso Internacional de Guitarra Comarca el Condado (2015, Spain), 1.Prize at the Hermoupolis Guitar Festival (2014, Greece), 1. Prize at the Peloponnese Guitar Festival (2016 , Greece), 1. Prize at the Fiuggi Guitar Festival (2013, Italy), Martha and John Nye Audience Choice Award and 2. Prize at Annual Texas Guitar Competition and Festival (2020, USA).
For his performances he was awarded with scholarship at the Tokyo Foundation 2009, a Viktor Bunzl Scholarship 2011, Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Scholarships in Vienna and Cologne, regular scholarships from the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna (2008, 2010) and most recently with Brüser Berger Music Award 2023.
In addition, the musician is regularly invited to perform at major Concert Halls and Festivals such as: Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker (Germany), Schloß Henkell Konzertreihe (Germany), Lyon Guitare Classique (France), Gitarrenfestival Deggendorf (Germany), Festival de Guitarra de Petrer (Spain), Alhambra Guitar Festival (Spain), Festival de la Guitarra de Sevilla (Spain), Nizhny Nowgorod Guitar Festival (Russia), Shenzhen Concert Hall (China), Festival Internacional Andrés Segovia Madrid (Spain), Auditorio Miguel Delibes in Valladolid (Spain), Vienna Musikverein (Austria), Rheinhessen Musikfestival (Germany), Euroclassic Musikfestival (Germany), UT Dallas Concert Series (USA), Bangkok Guitar Festival (Thailand), Klaipėda Concert Hall (Lithuania), Bad Homburger Schlosskonzerte (Germany), St Cyprian's Clarence Gate in London (UK), Hong Kong Guitar Festival, Mozart-Gesellschaft Wiesbaden (Germany), Thrace Guitar Festival (Greece), Mozarthaus Vienna (Austria), Guitar Days Festival in Zagreb (Croatia), Nordhessen Musikfestival (Germany), Ditzenbacher Musiktage (Germany), Brüser Berger Konzerte in E (Germany).
In recent seasons he has performed with Neue Philharmonie Westfalen, Orchestre Symphonique de Chatillon, Shenzhen Chamber Orchestra, Hong Kong Metropolitan Pop Orchestra, Sinfonieorchester Bergheim, Kammerorchester Plochingen, Mostar Symphonie Orchestra and Sinfonieorchester der TH Köln.
Ivan Petricevic is a SAVAREZ artist and his recordings have been released by Hänssler Classic, Contrastes Records and ARS Produktion.