Vladimir Krpan (Piano)

Born: January 11, 1938 - Sveti Ivan Zelina, Croatia (former Yugoslavia)

The Croatian pianist and piano pedagogue, Vladimir Krpan, graduated at the Zagreb Academy of Music in the class of Svetislav Stančić and won a master's degree at the Santa Cecilia Music Academy in Rome with Carlo Zecchi. He also studied with Guido Agosti, Renzo Silvestri and Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli in Rome, Arezzo, Siena, Bergamo and Lugano.

Vladimir Krpan founded the piano department at the Music Academy in Skopje (Republic of Macedonia) from 1971. He teaches at the Music Academy of the University in Zagreb where he raised a few generations of young pianists such as Peđa Mužijević, Katarina Krpan, Srđan Čaldarović, Lana Genc, Martina Filjak, Maksim Mrvica, Bruno Vlahek and many others. In his pedagogical work, he combines elements of Stancic's Zagreb Piano School and the heritage of the Italian school, especially Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli's. He is an active promoter of music by Croatian composers, which holds a special place in his repertoire. Krpan has collaborated with many conductors and has had appearances in all the major music centres in Croatia and Europe as well as in the USA, Russia, Iran, India, North and South Korea, Turkey and Thailand.

Vladimir Krpan is an author of a TV series dedicated to Croatian piano music, editor of many Croatian composers' works, and author of specialized articles in national and international music magazines. He recorded numerous solo and chamber music works for radio and television, as well as 20 L’Ps and 15 CD’s for different labels.

As a chamber musician, Vladimir Krpan is active as a member of Trio Orlando and forms a piano duo with his daughter Katarina Krpan. He is the founder of the Croatian section of EPTA (European Piano Teachers Association) and its two international competitions in Osijek and Zagreb (EPTA - International Piano Competition Svetislav Stančić).

Vladimir Krpan is a juror at international piano competitions and regularly holds master-classes in his country and abroad.

Source: Wikipedia Website (October 2011); Reading Eagle. (October 23, 1987); Zagreb Concert Management Website (2005)
Contributed by Aryeh Oron (October 2011)

Vladimir Krpan: Short Biography | Recordings of Instrumental Works

Links to other Sites

Vladmir Krpan (Wikipedia)
Happy birthday to maestro Vladimir Krpan in Zagreb (CROWN)
Vladimir Krpan - Curricula Vitae (Accademia di Musica Pinerolo) [Italian]

Pianist Vladimir Krpan to perform in concert (Reading Eagle. 23 October 1987)
Vladimir Krpan, piano / Katarina Krpan, piano (KDZ)