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Extremely rich art work of Dubravka Jovicic includes several hundreds of solo recitals, concerts with orchestras, radio and TV shows in numerous towns of the former and present Yugoslavia. She also participated at the international festivals in Budapest and Szolnok in Hungary, Craiova in Romania, Bordeaux, and Paris in France, Bratislava and Komarno in Slovakia, Ohrid in Macedonia, Dubrovnik and Zagreb in Croatia, Sarajevo in Bosnia, Budva, Belgrade, Nis, Kotor, and many other cities in Yugoslavia. She has performed in France, Hungary ( notably in Ferenz Liszt Zeneakademia in Budapest), Czech Republic, Republic of Slovakia, Austria, Germany, some countries of former Soviet Union (Minsk, Odessa, Gomel, Krasnodar, etc.), England and Romania, with orchestras such as the Brno State Symphony Orchestra, the Belgrade Philharmonic, the Zagreb Philharmonic, the Dubrovnik Festival Orchestra, the Radio Belgrade and Radio Sarajevo Symphony Orchestras, the Belgrade Strings "Dusan Skovran", the Serbian Chamber Orchestra, etc. under conductors including Jaroslav Opela, Perti Pekannen, Anton Kolar, Petr Altrichter, Alexander Apolin, Anatolij Novicki, Jurij Aliev, George Trautwein, Mladen Jagust, Dusan Miladinovic, Stanko Sepic, and many others. Recording of International Festival concert in Budapest (1980) was broadcasted at the NHK network in Japan in a series of the most popular musical achievements of all international festivals, suggested by the Hungarian Radio.

Critic Reviews and Opinions about the new CD

Prof. Joseph HOROWITZ, composer, professor at Royal College of Music, London, September 28, 2001.

"...I am really impressed by piano playing of Dubravka Jovicic -with all its virtuosity and deeply felt and understood musicality. Especially the Falla pieces."

 

Mrs. Neda BEBLER, PRO MUSICA No. 165/2001, CD Critics,

"...The common denominator of this program (de Falla, Albeniz, Liszt, Saint-Saens) is attractive, rich and significant rhythmical component, and from the performance aspect, those are serious and thoughtful conceptions of Dubravka Jovicic in which the virtuoso elements are the constitutional part the composers pianistic language but not the occasion for an exhibition. A fascinating unity of technical brilliance and expressive intensity of refined, nuanced dynamic profiles, agogics and unwavering rhythmic pulse ...are the unforgettably impressive attributes of the exceptional pianist abilities of DUBRAVKA JOVICIC.. This part of the critic by Mihailo Vukdragovic, referred to her interpretation of Saint-Saens Concerto in 1979, well characterizes her performances in the later years too, and so on those recordings, but at the first place on the soloistic part of the program... Concerning the studio recordings in our conditions it always has to bear in mind the fact that the interpreter has to be lucky to realize the maximum of his abilities in the minimum of enabled time. Dubravka Jovicic has the best possible technique and the "psychological" ability - the extraordinaire concentration, for that type of work..."

 

Maestro Pierre SANCAN, Paris, 1978.

"DUBRAVKA JOVICIC'S interpretations are very remarkable and give the picture of an artist's personality enriched with vivacious and enthusiastic manner in the highest degree of virtuosity in her quest for contrast in timbres."

Academician Mihailo VUKDRAGOVIC, "Politika",1979.

"A fascinating unity of technical brilliance and expressive intensity of refined, nuanced dynamic profiles, agogics and unwavering rhythmic pulse of Saint-Saens' Piano Concerto in g-minor are the unforgettably impressive attributes of the exceptional pianist abilities of DUBRAVKA JOVICIC."

 
Maestro Kendall TAYLOR, London, 1980.

"DUBRAVKA JOVICIC is an outstanding pianist. Her interpretations show vitally, musician's temperament and true musical sense of style."

 
Mr. Nebojsa TODOROVIC, PRO MUSICA No.164\2000, International Festival NIMUS

"Belgrade pianist, DUBRAVKA JOVICIC, represented herself with the works of Mozart, Chopin, Granados and Bach...Second movement of Mozart Piano Sonata in C Major, KV 330, Dubravka Jovicic interpreted very lyrically...while the three standard Chopin works, Scherzo No.1 in B Minor, Ballade No.2 in F Major and Barcarolle in F sharp Major op.60, she preformed very experienced, with her personal feeling of Chopin style. Two movements from Goyescas by Enrique Granados, were the climax of the evening. "Quejas, o la maja e el ruisenor" and "El Fandango de Candil" were played with the extraodrinary tone qualities, inspired and musically. At the end of the concert Dubravka Jovicic performed Choral in G Minor, "Nun komm' der Heiden Heiland" and the monumental Chaconne in D Minor by J.S.Bach in Busoni's transcription, in the manner of great pianists which is worthy our memory."

 
"Narodne novine", Nis, December, 2000.

"DUBRAVKA JOVICIC, pianist from Belgrade, was the guest on this year NIMUS, when she performed with her extraordinary musicality the works by Mozart, Chopin, Granados and Bach. Her playing expressed once again the life strength and musical talent, full of desire for contrasts: the life ones and musical ones - those which are in the being of this versatile woman."

 

Mr. Aleksandar OBRADOVIC, composer, in his Interview for Radio Belgrade, June 2000, after the solemn opening of the IX International Composer's Tribune in Belgrade, when Mrs. Jovicic together with Saint Geogre Strings and conductor, Petar Ivanovic, premierely performed his Piano Concerto "Diptych"

"DUBRAVKA JOVICIC extraordinarily musically, technically, in one word, essentially, penetrated into the composition, and realized one phenomenal interpretation."

 
Mrs. Marija ADAMOV, Radio Novi Sad, October 1999, International Festival BEMUS

"The honour to open BEMUS this year belonged to the Belgrade Radio Symphony Orchestra with the guest conductor from Czech Republic, Alexander Apolin, and the soloist, pianist DUBRAVKA JOVICIC... Sovereignly spinning out and weaving the soloistic part of Bosnjak's Piano Concerto, pianistically "thought" in the real sense of meaning, deeply interweaved and coalesced with the string lines in which it dives deeply and then strongly gushes out, spreading in streams riched with chords, Mrs. JOVICIC gave the real seal to this three movements Concerto,...which excited our emotions by its warm human nuances."

 
Mrs. Maja BLAGOJEVIC, TV Belgrade, October 9, 1999, International Festival BEMUS

"The honour to open the Solemnity belonged to the Belgrade Radio Symphony Orchestra with Maestro Alexander Apolin, and pianist DUBRAVKA JOVICIC. The special charm of the first Festival evening represents the premiere performance of the Piano Concerto by Jugoslav Bosnjak. The first Concerto by the creator of the younger generation, written with a lot of warmth, in neoromantic style, pianist DUBRAVKA JOVICIC experiences lyrically and transmits deeply thoughtfully insisting on each detail. The richness of colors she achieves by brilliant technique, leaving the impression of luxurious musicality and latent energy of the piece."

 
Mrs. Lidija MARSICEVIC, "Beorama", Belgrade, June, 1999.

"DUBRAVKA JOVICIC, as a soloist with the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra extraordinarily performed Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.5 ."

Mrs. Donata PREMERU, "Borba", Belgrade, February, 1999.

"Already in the first half of the concert, Soler's Dubble Concertos represented the experience of the highest level: performed on harpsichord and piano, two different but at the same time, very close and masterly balanced instruments, especially by the special "touché" of Dubravka Jovicic. Fascinated by the silvery sound of harpsichord and the new sound of the piano which transformed itself in the temperamental Spanish guitar in one moment, but in another, in the rhythmical clapping of the dancer's feet, both artists left us astonished by the richness of the sound and the composer's creative imagination."

 
Mrs. Maja BLAGOJEVIC, TV Belgrade, November, 1998

"DUBRAVKA JOVICIC, pianist whose performance represented the culmination of the evening, impressed as always by her endless musicality enweaved in the Concerto (Beethoven Piano Concerto No.3 in C Minor). She carves the composition in the philosophical way searching in Beethoven's music the careless delight, but also the dramatic seriousness. She interprets the work with such imagination that the listeners have the impression to see very clear the whole score played on a piano which sounds periodically as an orchestra or the voice. DUBRAVKA JOVICIC paints the Concerto with the true classic palette by very pleasant dynamic contrasts."

 

From the Report concerning the Election for the position of Full-time professor of Piano at the Faculty of Music Art in Belgrade, January 1998.

"DUBRAVKA JOVICIC is a personality of extremely wide interests, a personality of endless curiosity, the searching spirit which, in the act of investigation experiences the real joy of musicianship, the artist who is omnipresented in our cultural milieu. However and above all, DUBRAVKA JOVICIC is truthfully devoted to piano, the personality whose dominated vocation is the concert stage. She is one of the most active pianist with enormous artistic results. Besides the supreme works from the wordy literature, her engagement for bringing to the day-light the worthy compositions of our heritage has to be especially underlined. As the person of high level of communication, spontaneous and sincere, DUBRAVKA JOVICIC establishes contacts with students and colleagues very easy, what brings great results especially in pedagogy. In her newest function, as the Head of the Piano Department, DUBRAVKA JOVICIC is the real discovery: in a short time she succeeded to dynamise the activities, to activate the potentials, to improve the atmosphere, which has been proven on the recent Faculty celebration. Preparing this Report, the Board has the pleasure to be closely informed once again with the personality who represents the special value in our musical life."

 
Mrs. Branka RADOVIC, "Politika",Belgrade, January, 1998.

"DUBRAVKA JOVICIC has been known and recognized for years already in our milieu as one of the best interpreters of national as well foreign modern music, which she does not play out of courtesy and duty or need to flirt with the current fashion, but always chooses valuable pieces and revealing to us either the authors we were unaware of or works we had no opportunity to listen to. A high technical level of interpretation and an exceptionally honest approach to her art and music in general have been characteristic of this pianist ever since the first days of her involvement in the pianist art."

 
"Politika", Belgrade, 1995.

"Outstanding DUBRAVKA JOVICIC showed a great piano performance in the Piano Concerto by Svetislav Bozic, for which she got unforgettable ovations."

 
Mr. Evanghelos MOUTSOPOULOS, academician, Greece, 1994.
"Immence plaisir que la musique extraordinaire de DUBRAVKA JOVICIC nous procure."
 
George TRAUTWEIN, conductor, USA, 1994.

"Brilliant performance of Liszt's First Piano Concerto."

 
Radio Belgrade, 1993.

"DUBRAVKA JOVICIC having a full control of score played Brahms’ Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in B flat Major breathlessly. She was often leading a complete communication in her recognizable thickness of tone color, plastic forte parts and pearl piano."

 
"World Premiers" (Svetske premijere), Television Belgrade, 1993.

"Wendy Chambers and her composition "Oceanic Variations" gained a deserving, exultant and great representative in a brilliant performing of DUBRAVKA JOVICIC."

 
Graham WATERHOUSE, composer, Great Britain, 1993.

"Bravo for a wonderful performance (Prelude op.32). This is a great honour for me and I am most grateful."

 
Radio Belgrade, 1992.

"Uncatchability of "water' as an inspiration in the piano works of Claude Debussy performed by DUBRAVKA JOVICIC presented simplicity, extreme tone culture and elegancy, vivid imagination and exceptionality."

 
"Vecernje novosti", Belgrade, 1990.

"DUBRAVKA JOVICIC performed exultantly Joseph Horovitz JAZZ Concerto for piano and strings. It was an outstanding experience and event."

 
"Pobjeda", Podgorica, 1990.

"DUBRAVKA JOVICIC played the pieces by Scriabin in her exceptional way and was warmly greeted for extremely high level of interpretation."