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Detoni, Danijel | piano

Date created: 31.03.2017.
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Danijel Detoni began his musical training under Olga Detiček at the Vatroslav Lisinski Music School in Zagreb, and studied under László Baranyay and Balázs Kecskés at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, and Itamar Golan at the Paris Conservatory. He learned from renowned artists such as Pnina Salzman, Emanuel Krasovsky, Hamsa al-Wadi, Felix Gottlieb, Pál Éder and Dénes Várjon.

As a soloist and chamber musician, he appeared at major festivals including the Warsaw Autumn Festival, the Music Biennale Zagreb, the Musica Danubiana Ljubljana, the Dubrovnik Summer Festival, the Osor Musical Evenings, the Julian Rachlin & Friends Festival, the Transeuropéennes Rouen, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival Hamburg, the ReMusica Pristina, the Carniarmonie Udine, the Croatian Music Festival Vienna, the Trieste Prima Festival, the Croatie, là-voici Paris, the Musical Evenings at St Donatus and the Split Summer Festival.

He has collaborated with artists such as Katarina Livljanić (as a member of the Dialogos Ensemble), Radovan Vlatković, Kajana Pačko, Krešimir Stražanac, Sanja Romić, Zsolt Éder, Andrea Hill, Mathilde Calderini, Ivana Lazar, Boris Brovtsyn, Itamar Golan, Gábor Boldoczki, Irvin Venyš, Pavle Zajcev, Renata Pokupić, Ivan Batoš, Tristan Thery, Pavel Vernikov, Boris Andrianov, Goran Jurković, Stefan Milenkovich, Enrico Dindo, David Aaron Carpenter, Marija Pavlović, Aleksandar Milošev and Enrico Bronzi. He has appeared with chamber ensembles such as the Ensemble Antiphonus, the Zagreb Soloists, the Zagreb Quartet, the Zagreb Saxophone Quartet, the Porin String Quartet and Trio Lenitas. During the three years of collaboration with Martin Draušnik and Pavle Zajcev as a member of the Zagreb Trio, he appeared at major music venues in Croatia, Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa, and at the Warsaw Autumn Festival.

He has appeared as soloist with the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Croatian Radio and Television Orchestra and Choir, the Orchestra of the Croatian National Theatre Split, the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, the Varaždin Chamber Orchestra, the Zadar Chamber Orchestra, the Beijing Symphony Orchestra, the Budapest Strings Chamber Orchestra, the UMZE Chamber Ensemble, the Dušan Skovran Chamber Orchestra and the Zagreb Soloists, with conductors such as Pavle Dešpalj, Tomislav Fačini, Ivan Repušić, Tonči Bilić, György Győriványi Ráth, Lior Shambadal, Nikša Bareza, Tan Lihua, Johannes Kalitzke, Oliver Dohnányi, Carlo Tenan, Berislav Šipuš and Vesna Šouc. A passionate chamber musician since his youth, he won the Leó Weiner National Music Competition in Budapest as part of a duo with violinist Márta Deák in 2003, and the Israeli Isman Foundation Award for outstanding interpretation of Ligeti’s music in 2006. In 2008 he won the Jeunesses Musicales Croatia Best Young Musician Award. The same year Croatia Records released his solo album with selected works of Dubravko Detoni. His album Journey Through Europe, recorded with cellist Kajana Pačko, was released in 2014 by Croatia Records, and his third album, also with Kajana Pačko, was released in 2018 by the Belgian label Le Chant de Linos. His recordings were included on the albums of composers Pavle Dešpalj, Ivo Josipović, Sara Glojnarić and Silvio Foretić, and on the first CD released by the Zagreb Academy of Music (Vjekoslav Nježić: As the Time).

Danijel has served as an assistant at the Piano, Harpsichord and Organ Department at the Academy of Music, University of Zagreb, teaching piano since 2009 and chamber music since 2015. He is currently Associate Professor at the same Academy.

Photo (c) Ivan Lacković