Concerts

Gregor Vidovic’s „specialty“ are lecture-recitals. In this compact and inspiring form he presents classical music literature in words and music. For the rookies among the concert audience this is an exciting and motivating way to get started and for the experienced audience this is a source of interesting information about composers and the social and cultural aspects of different periods of history.

At present, Gregor Vidovic offers following lecture-recitals:
 

The Triumph Of the Piano

The piano is central to the arts and culture in the Occident and they can hardly be imagined without it.  A mere hundred years lie between the invention of the piano and it becoming the dominant instrument for virtuosos, composers and music lovers alike. Many of the great composers were also celebrated pianists – Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninoff...
In this lecture-recital the pianist Gregor Vidovic charts the historic development of this fascinating instrument with stories of its composers, music from their masterpieces, insights into the historic circumstances, the relevant zeitgeist and plenty of anecdotal accounts.  Piano pieces from various periods round off this lecture-recital musically.

The Baroque “Clavier”-Music

How could a lecture-recital on Baroque music focus on an instrument that did not exist?  The piano as we know it was not invented until the Baroque period was practically over. One answer lies in the broad approach of the composers of time.  Even Bach’s son, Carl Philipp Emanuel, still used the collective term “clavier” for all keyboard instruments, whether he meant a harpsichord, clavichord, or fortepiano.  Another very convincing argument for music lovers and pianists alike is the fact that the music of the baroque masters is incredibly beautiful and should not be missed by anyone.
Experience Johann Sebastian Bach, Domenico Scarlatti and Jean-Philippe Rameau in words and music! 

The Vienna Classics

What do Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven have in common? They were the major representatives of the Vienna Classics. Named after the city that became the de facto cultural and political capital of late 18th Century Europe, this music period was defined by the assimilation of classical values like aesthetics, architecture, drama and perfection of form. The great composers of the period knew how to transform these values in audible pieces of art – into masterpieces that significantly influenced occidental civilisation.
Gregor Vidovic describes with words and music one of the most thrilling periods of European music history. 

Ludwig van Beethoven – The Zenith of the Vienna Classics

The name Ludwig van Beethoven is synonymous with classical music and the virtues of classical art all over the world. What put him into this unique position? Probably what he wasn’t is just as much a part of it, as what he was.
He wasn’t a child prodigy like Mozart, he wasn’t a superstar like Liszt, he wasn’t an all-rounder like Haydn, he found no serenity in religion like Bach; instead he was a very much a grounded human being and a humanist through and through.  Justice and liberty were the virtues that determined his personality and shaped him as an artist. The fact that he remained true to these virtues throughout his life in spite of hard times that climaxed in deafness – in many ways the maximum penalty fate could deal a musician – makes him one of the most exceptional personalities of classical music, and rightfully so.

BEETHOVEN AND CLEMENTI
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THE CONQUEST OF THE “HAUGHTY BEAUTY”

We all have heard so many lectures speaking about the Vienna Classics Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven and their mutual influence. Indicative are the words of Beethoven’s lifelong supporter Count Waldstein as he told young Beethoven that thanks to his studies in Vienna, he “will receive Mozart's spirit through Haydn's hands”. And although Mozart’s and Haydn’s influence are indisputable, they were not the only ones who influenced, or perhaps better said, inspired, Beethoven as a composer, teacher and pianist. A glance westward away from Vienna and towards London makes us remember the testimony of Beethoven’s assistant and first biographer Anton Schindler who wrote: "Among all the masters who have written for piano, Beethoven assigned to Clementi the very foremost rank”.
By listening parallel to the works of Beethoven and Clementi it becomes so obvious that their musical ways and goals were often very similar and that it is absolutely sensible and appropriate to take a look towards this intangible “west connection” that later on developed also its material aspects like Clementi being Beethoven’s publisher in England or Beethoven’s affinity for the English instruments.
This lecture-recital aims to cast some light on different aspects of the “relationship” of these two great masters.

Frederic Chopin – Between Vanity and Revolution

Irrespective of personal musical interests, it is almost impossible to find someone who hasn’t heard of Frederic Chopin. For music lovers his name is synonymous with piano music, romanticism, ingenuity, virtuosity and elegance of piano play and for pianists he is the pinnacle of compositional and pianistic synthesis.
The pianist Gregor Vidovic describes in this lecture-recital the complex correlation between Chopin’s highly conservative and vain personality and his revolutionary ingenuity as a musician. 

Franz Liszt POST 2011 – After THE YEAR OF LISZT

The year 2011 was a year of great significance for the name and fame of Franz Liszt. On the occasion of the second centennial of his birthday, musicologists everywhere presented the latest results of their Liszt-research, and all around the world pianists were playing his music – from “greatest hits” to “previously unreleased”. All of this modernized our perception of Liszt and liberated him from many old prejudices.
In this lecture-recital Gregor Vidovic attempts to summarise this new view of Liszt with piano pieces as well as important aspects of his life, personality and the zeitgeist of the 19th century world. 

Chopin und Liszt – Between Tradition and Avant-garde

Irrespective of personal musical preference, it is almost impossible to find someone who never heard the names of Frederic Chopin and Franz Liszt. For music lovers these names are synonyms for pianistic elegance, virtuosity, the peak of piano playing, but also for romanticism, emotions, ingenuity and opulence of pianistic ideas.
The pianist Gregor Vidovic presents in this lecture-recital the intricate artistic, social and historic correlations that define these two extraordinary composers. Historic facts, legends, anecdotes and descriptions of the 19th century zeitgeist complete this journey through time to two of the greatest personalities of musical history. 

The German Romantics

The term “German Romantics” is primarily associated with the literary Romantics, like Schlegel, Novalis, E.T.A. Hoffmann or Eichendorff. It is usually only a second thought that leads to music. This chronology is actually correct – while literature was already firmly in the hands of the Romantics, music was still seeing out the period of the Vienna Classics. But a new generation of composers was just about to appear, and inspired by the novel literature and philosophy of the time, they were to lead the German music with great steps towards musical Romanticism.
This lecture-recital presents in words and music some of the greatest German composers – Franz Schubert, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms.

The Russian Romantics

Glinka, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Skrjabin... – these are all composers whose musical themes are well known to everybody, regardless of personal music taste. It is an interesting question, what kind of people composed these masterpieces that, due to their intense melodic, harmonic and drama, enchant the listeners. 
The pianist Gregor Vidovic presents in this lecture-recital some of the most important composers of the Russian Romanticism – their lives, their times and their piano masterpieces. 

IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER

The pianist Gregor Vidovic presents us a lecture recital that takes us through the epochs of baroque, classic and romantic. The piano pieces he chose for this concert represent the creative milestones of selected composers and at the same time pieces of special importance for Gregor and his artistic career.
What this means, Gregor Vidovic personally explains alongside the masterpieces of Rameau, Scarlatti, Clementi, Schumann, Schubert, Rachmaninoff, Chopin and Liszt.

KEYS AND CIRCUSES

In the style of the old Roman slogan “bread and circuses” Gregor Vidovic describes in this lecture recital the fascinating development of the piano and the art of piano playing in the 19th century.
This instrument that started off just a century earlier as a mere technical curiosity superseded the respectable harpsichord in a matter of decades and developed to a true magnet for the audience and the most important solo-instrument of the virtuosos. With captivating stories and selected masterpieces of the piano literature Gregor Vidovic connects the great composers of the romantic era with a red ribbon spanning the history of the piano from Schubert and Mendelssohn across Chopin and Liszt to Scriabin and Rachmaninoff.

VENUES

ALEXANDRIA - Conservatoire Alexandria
BELGRADE – Educational Congress of the University of Belgrade
BERLIN - C. Bechstein Centrum Berlin
BERLIN - Gutspark Neukladow
BIRMINGHAM - Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
BONN - International EPTA Beethoven-Conference
BRESSANONE - Institute for Music Education
CAIRO - Conservatoire Cairo - Academy of Arts
CAIRO - Cairo Opera House
COLOGNE - C. Bechstein Centrum Köln
DRESDEN - Dresdener Piano Salon
ENGELSKIRCHEN - Academy Schloss Ehreshoven
LINZ – Congress of the EPTA Austria
MAGDEBURG - Conservatoire G. F. Telemann
NOTTINGHAM - Trent College
NOVI SAD - World Piano Conference
NÜMBRECHT - Schloss Homburg
PALMA DE MALLORCA – Finca Cultural Son Baulo
RIO DE JANEIRO - Escola de Música, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
RIO DE JANEIRO - Conservatório Brasileiro de Música
RIO DE JANEIRO - Rotary Club Rio de Janeiro
SAO PAULO - Club Transatlantico
SAO PAULO - Teatro Humboldt
SARAJEVO - Bosniak Institute
SARAJEVO – Music Academy Sarajevo
WIEHL - Burghaus Bielstein

COncert Reviews

TEaching

Gregor Vidovic gives piano lessons in English, German and Serbo-Croatian language.  

CREDO  

• High-quality piano teaching as synthesis of pedagogic and concert experience

• Promotion of understanding and appreciation of arts

• Development of originality and artistic thinking  

EXPERIENCE  

• More than 25 years of piano teaching experience

• Private students of all ages and skill levels

• Conducted more then 30 national and international master classes for piano, chamber music and song accompaniment

PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF TEACHING 

CHILDREN AND YOUTH  

Piano teaching based on interests and knowledge level  

• Creative and motivating teaching  

• Responsive to music and stylistic wishes of the students

• Broadening of music and artistic horizons of the students
  
  

Holistic music education  

• Piano playing

• Applied harmonics and music theory

• Broadening of knowledge in music history and music styles

• Concert experience
    

ADVANCED AND SPECIALLY GIFTED STUDENTS

• Highly individualized coaching

• Expansion of general music knowledge

• Specialized knowledge of repertoire

• Preparations for competitions and professional music studies

• Development of the artistic personality
   

ADULTS 

• Adult teaching didactics

• Distinct orientation according to individual interests

• Flexible tuition times and frequency

STUDENTS´ VOICES

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Contact

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E-Mail: gregorvidovic.pianist@gmail.com

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