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Goran Filipec - Piano

Biography

Goran Filipec, one of the most distinguished Croatian pianists, was born in 1981 in Rijeka, where he obtained primary and secondary musical education at the School of music “Ivan Matetich Ronjgov”. From 1997 to 2001 he studied piano (with Marina Ambokadze) and musicology  at the Music Academy “Ino Mirkovich” in Lovran, under licence of Moskow state conservatory “P. I. Chaikovsky”. His later trainigs include postgraduate studies at Hochschüle für Musik Köln (with  Arbo Valdma, 2003 - 2004), Schola Cantorum in Paris (with Eugen Indjic, 2003 - 2006), Zagreb Music Academy (with Evgeny Zarafiants, 2006 - 2007), as well as master classes with Elisso Virsaladze and Oxana Yablonskaya. Goran Filipes is 2nd Prize winner of the Jose Iturbi International Music Competition - Piano, California, 2009, and 1st Prize winner of Gabala International Piano Competition, Azerbaijan 2009. His concert engagements led him to the Carnegie Hall in New York, National Concert Hall in Dublin, Salle Alfred Cortot in Paris, and numerous other concerts halls in Switzerland, Holland, Agrentina, Brasil, USA Croatia, and other countries of former Yugoslavia. Goran Filipec performed with several renown orchestras, such as:  Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Ushuaia Philharmonic Orchestra, Rijeka Opera Symphony Orchestra, Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra,  Croatian Chamber Orchestra, under direction of Jorge Uliarte, Vjekoslav Sutej, Leonid Nikolaev, Pavle Despalj and other renown conductors. His performances where recorded and broadcasted by Croatian National Television and Radio, Radio Suisse Romande and several Argentinian television and radio channels.

FROM REVIEWS:

"...In this repertoire Filipec also demontrated that he is an authentic and brillant heir of that Eastern European piano school which refers to Emil Gilels, Svjatoslav Richter and Lazar Berman. Powerful and subtle in exact degrees, with an infinite capability of frasing and poetical deepening in the most tremendous passages, almost ignoring interminable pianistic difficulties, Filipec dedicated himself to making music..."

Pablo Cohan, La Nación, Buenos Aires

"...The concert opened with Rachmaninoff's grandly conceived Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor Op. 36, composed in 1913 and revised in 1931, and the early Elegy Op. 3 No. 1. Only a virtuoso pianist who knew how to exploit all the resources of his instrument could have written the Sonata; it was a staple of Rachmaninoff's own repertoire. Goran Filipec, a brillant young pianist, played it to the hilt. The running passages and trills sparkled, the melodies sang, the great crashing chords filled the hall; he captured the drama, somberness and melancholy of the slow movement as well as of the Elegy..."

Edith Eisler, New York Concert Review

"… He even discovered the part of his sensibility, to the great extent protected, that sort of romantic sensibility which appears in traces with the truly emotional and sincere natures, on the frequency of the sensibility of someone's interpreted music…"

Bosiljka Perić-Kempf, Novi list

 

Repertoire

PIANO SOLO REPERTOIRE:


Bach Busoni: Ciaccona in d minor; Prelude and fuga in D major BVW 532;

Beethoven: Sonata op. 31 Nr 3; Sonata op 53 Waldstein; Sonata op 57 Appassionata; Sonata op 81a Les Adieux;

Brahms: Sonata op 5 in f minor; 2 Rhapsodies op 79; Variations on a theme by Paganini op 35 book I/II;

Busoni: Elegia All Italia; Kammer-Fantasie uber Carmen;

Chopin: Studies op 10, op 25 (complete); Scherzos (complete); Ballade nr 3; Ballade nr 4; Polonaise op 44; Polonaise op 53 Heroic; Andante spianato and Grande polonaise brillante op 22; Sonata nr 3 op 58;

Liszt: Grandes Etudes aprés Paganini (arr Busoni); Anees de Pelerinage (complete); Benediction de Dieu dans la Solitude (Harmonies poetiques et religieuses); Sonata in b minor; Reminescences de Don Juan; Reminescences de Norma; Hungarian Rhapsodies nr. 1,2,10,13,19;

Mozart: Piano sonata KV 330; Piano sonata KV 333; Piano sonata KV 457; Piano sonata KV 576; Variations in G major KV 455 (Gluck);

Mussorgsky: Pictures of an exhibition;

Prokofiev: Toccata; Sonata nr 3 in a minor; Sonata nr 6 in a major;

Rachmaninoff: Sonata nr 2 op 36 (2nd version); 6 Moments Musicaux op 16;

Schumann: Carnaval op 9; Humoresque op 20; Kinderszenen op 82;

Skrjabin: Sonata nr 3 op 23;



PIANO CONCERTI REPERTOIRE:

Beethoven: Piano concerto nr 1; Piano concerto nr 2; Piano concerto nr 3; Piano concerto nr 4; Piano concerto nr 5;

Brahms: Piano concerto nr 1 in d minor;

Chopin: Piano concerto nr 1;

Liszt: Totentanz; Piano concerto nr 1; Piano concerto nr 2;

Mozart: Piano concerto nr 23 KV 488; Piano concerto nr 24 KV 491;

Rachmaninoff: Piano concerto nr 2, Piano concerto nr 3;

Schumann: Piano concerto op 54 in a minor;

Tchaikovsky: Piano concerto nr 1 op 23;



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