Radovan vlatkovic biography

Radovan Vlatković has travelled the globe performing extensively as a soloist and popularising the horn as recording artist and teacher.
Radovan Vlatković (born 1962) is a Croatian-born horn player.
He was born in Zagreb, Croatia, were he began his music studies.

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He was born in Zagreb, Croatia, were he began his music studies. He later entered the Academy of Music of Detmold in Germany, where he graduated as soloist.

He won the First Prizes in the Ancona (1979, Italy) and ARD in Munich (1983, Germany) international competitions, which have led him to numerous music festivals in the United States, Asia, Australia and Europe, such as the Santander Encounter of Music and Academia.

Between 1982 and 1990, he was first horn player of the Berlin Radio Orchestra. As soloist he has performed with orchestras such as the Berlin and the Bavarian Radios, the BBC in London, the English Chamber, the Academy of St. Martin if the Fields, the Camerata Academica of the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Yomiuri Orchestra, and the Tokyo and the NHK Orchestras. As chamber music performer he has played with Vladimir Ashkenazy, Heinz Holliger, Gidon Kremer, Aurèle Nicolet and András Schiff, among others.

Besides his artistic career, he has developed an important role in academia. From 1992 to 1998, he was the professor of horn in the Stuttgart Musikhochschule, and s

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Radovan Vlatković

One of the leading instrumentalists of his generation, Radovan Vlatkovic has travelled the globe performing extensively as soloist and popularising the horn as recording artist and teacher.

Born in Zagreb in 1962 he completed his studies with Professor Prerad Detièek at the Zagreb Academy of Music and Professor Michael Höltzel at the Music Academy in Detmold, Germany. Radovan Vlatkovic is the recipient of many first prizes in national and international competitions, including the Premio Ancona in 1979 and the ARD Competition in Munich in 1983 – the first to be awarded to a horn player for fourteen years. This led to numerous invitations to music festivals throughout Europe, including Salzburg, Vienna, Edinburg and Dubrovnik, to name a few, as well as the Americas, Australia, Israel, Korea and Japan.

From 1982 until 1990 he served as Principal Horn with the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin (now Deutsches Symphonie Orchester) under Maestros Riccardo Chailly and Vladimir Ashkenazy. From 1992 to 1998 he held the post of Horn Professor at the Stuttgart Musikhoc

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Radovan Vlatković

Croatian-born horn player (born 1962)

Radovan Vlatković (born 1962) is a Croatian-born horn player. He was the former principal horn of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (now Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin). He left that post in 1990 to devote himself to a solo career and has recorded many of the major works for horn. He is now professor of horn at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria^[1] and at the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid.^[2] Vlatković also participates as a senior artist at the Marlboro Music Festival, and has performed in chamber music and solo recital for the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society^[3] and Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.^[4]

As a student Vlatković claimed prizes at the International Horn Competition in Liége, Belgium, at the 12th Yugoslavian Music Competition and at the "Premio Ancona" Competition in Italy. When Vlatković was awarded the First Prize at the ARD International Competition in Munich in 1983, it had not been awarded to a horn player for 14 years.

As a soloist