ISTRA PEČVARI

Serbia

 

was born in Belgrade. She has been playing piano since she was five. She completed her primary and secondary music education in Belgrade, with Prof. Gordana and Žika Jovanović. When she was sixteen, she enrolled the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, where she graduated, at the age of twenty, with Prof. Dušan Trbojević and later obtained her MA degree. She went to Italy (Florence) for her specialization studies with Prof. Maria Tipo, where she spent two years and obtained a degree from the Conservatory of Music "Luigi Cherubini". She specialized in chamber music and piano accompaniment at Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, with Prof. Ferenc Rados.

During the course of her studies, she began her concert activity as a soloist, chamber musician and piano accompanist. She has had more than thousand concert performances both in the country and abroad, more than five hundred of which have been played with young artists in most significant Belgrade concert halls, within great festivals and numerous international competitions. She has been engaged as an official piano accompanist at a number of significant local and international competitions.

She has recorded numerous radio and TV tracks, both in the country and abroad, LPs and CDs with various soloists and ensembles.

From 2002 until 2009, she worked as a chamber music teacher at the Academy of Music in Serbian Sarajevo. She is a fulltime independent artistic associate at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade.

At Ilija M. Kolarac Foundation Open University, she has been engaged as the artistic associate within the "Violin studio" of Prof. Dejan Mihailović. During her long-time concert career, she has constantly participated in the activities of the Musical Youth of Belgrade and Serbia.

She is a member of UMUS, where she has been engaged as the head of the Membership committee and a member of the Concert activities committee.