ANTE GRGIN

Serbia

 

completed his undergraduate and graduate studies at the Belgrade Academy of Music, under the tuition of renowned professor Bruno Brun. Even as a student he had remarkable achievements at various prestigious international open competitions in Geneve, Munich and Prague as well as the Second Prize at the Jeunesses Musicales International Competition in Belgrade (1970).

 

For almost three and a half decades Ante Grgin has performed in as a concert-player, chamber musician, soloist and the principal clarinetist of the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra from 1975 to this day. He has played with numerous orchestras in the country and abroad (France, Switzerland, Italy, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Russia, Belarus, China etc.) and as a soloist took part in various festivals, such as: BEMUS, The Days of Mokranjac, Marble Sounds and others. He is also a member of the New Music Ensemble.

 

Parallel with this work he also proved himself as a composer. He has composed a number of pieces for piano, violin, viola, flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, trumpet, horn. His compositions are characterized by tendency towards free forms, style models of jazzed symphony, evergreen harmonies, Balkan folklore rhythms and highly emphasized melodic as a part of instrument nature to which Grgin
has dedicated his performing and creative work. Among numerous artists who have performed his compositions we can find world-renowned names, such as: Irena Grafenauer and Mate Bekavac.

 

Grgin is a full-time professor teaching the clarinet at the Faculty of Music Arts in Belgrade. He received a number of prominent awards, such as: the “Dositej Obradović" Award, The Recognition Medallion of the City of Belgrade, The Letter of Thanks of the Faculty of Music Art, Golden Medallion of the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra on the occasion of the 75th Anniversary of this institution, the Silver Medallion of the University of Arts as well as the Association of Music Artists of Serbia Award.