Mia Elezovic - piano
Born in Zagreb, Croatia, Mia Elezovic was enrolled in Zagreb Music School in the class of Blazenka Zoric and later at Music Academy Zagreb with Zvjezdana Basic. After graduating in 1995, she moved to Vienna, where she studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Wien with Hans Petermandl. In 1997, she moved to Frankfurt/Main for "Aufbaustudium" with Herbert Seidel. Meanwhile she was also working with variety of international teachers, including S. Bishop-Kovachevich, E. Picht-Axenfeld, H. Nakamura, O. Yablonskaja, L. Hokanson, J. Perry, J. F. Antonioli, J. Rose, J. O´Conor, D. Pollack, M. Suk, Lee Fiser, Mauro Guindani. In 2007, Ms. Elezovic moved to New York City where she enrolled in a new program called Contemporary Performance at the Manhattan School of Music.
Ms. Elezovic has appeared as a soloist with the Croatian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra, The Croatian Chamber Orchestra, String Orchestra "Gaudeamus". As an active chamber musician she has participated in various international festivals at Hamamatsu Music Academy, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Holland Music Session, International Keyboard Festival-New York, Meranofest, Las Vegas Music Festival. She is also the prizewinner of the Croatian-Japanese Piano Competition, International Piano Competition in Rome, International Piano Competition in Kobe, Japan, "Seiler Piano Competition" in Kitzingen, Germany, Darko Lukic Music Competition in Croatia and the Croatian Composers Society.
Ms. Elezovic has worked with Croatian composer Ruben Radica, presenting his chamber music on CD with Zagreb Guitar Trio at International Music Biennale -Festival of Contemporary Music, which was released in 2001. She has also done extensive research on the field of Japanese contemporary music for piano at Showa Music Academy in Japan and later becoming the faculty member of Kyoto University for Music and Art as well of British School in Tokyo. Ms.Elezovic has been also on the faculty at Terra Magica Music Festival in Porec, Croatia as well as the piano-soloist of the Spanish National Ensemble for Contemporary Music in Madrid.
