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Klavierabend - Petar Klasan
Kalaveerband - Petter Kalson
Event by: Steinway & Sons Vienna
Location: Piano house Opernring GmbH, Opernring 6/8, Wien - Innere Stadt
About event
Petar Klasan (Zagreb, 1992), is one of the most talented Croatian pianists of the younger generation. After completing primary school in his homeland, he began the preparatory course in 2007 and the regular studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna in 2009. During his studies he studied with Prof. Noel Flores, Prof. Oleg Maisenberg, Prof. Stefan Vladar and Prof. Jasminka Stančul-Cernko.
From 2017-2023 he taught piano at the Barenboim – Said Center for Music in Ramallah, Palestine. Since 2024 he has been a lecturer in piano at the Music Academy of the University of Zagreb and, from December 2025, assistant at the Institute for Concert Piano at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.
Petar Klasan has taken part in numerous international master classes with famous pianists and teachers such as Stefan Mendl, Antoinette van Zabner, Dimitri Bashkirov, Arie Vardi, Pavel Gililov, Naum Grubert, Stephen Bishop Kovacevich.
He won prizes at national and international competitions, including the 1st prize and the audience prize at the 16th International Competition "Lions Grand Prix" in Rijeka (Croatia), the 1st prize at the "Boris Papandopulo" Competition in Zagreb (Croatia) and the 3rd prize and the Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra Prize at the 5th International EPTA Piano Competition "Svetislav Stančić" in Zagreb (Croatia). In 2015 he won 3rd prize at the Elena-Rombro-Stepanow Competition in Vienna.
Petar Klasan performs regularly as a soloist, chamber musician and soloist with orchestra.
He has played several times with famous Zagreb soloists, Radio Symphony Orchestra Zagreb, Symphonic Orchestra Mostar, Zagreb Youth Orchestra, National Youth Orchestra of Russia, Ton der Jugend Orchestra Vienna, Boulder Chamber Orchestra with conductors Uroš Lajovic, Vladimir Kranjčević, Robert Lehrbaumer, Igor Tatarević, Mladen Tarbuk, Vasily Valitov, Andrej Vesel and Bahman Sales.
PROGRAM: Beethoven & Chopin