| Biography | Since her first public performance in her hometown Belgrade at the age of eight, she has consistently excelled in solo recitals, piano concerts, radio and TV programs as well as in various chamber music formations. Anika Vavic began studying in Vienna at the age of sixteen under Noel Flores at the University of Music and Performing Arts.
During the past season Anika Vavic returned to the Munich Philharmonic (Beethoven's Choral Fantasy with Andrew Manze); she played the Scriabin Piano Concerto under the direction of Michael Sanderling, Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 2 at the Vienna Musikverein, recitals in Germany, Italy and Austria (at the Konzerthaus Vienna) and chamber music concerts with Renaud Capuçon and Daniel Müller-Schott, among others, at the Istanbul Music Festival.
In 2001 she won the Second Steinway Competition in Vienna, receiving a further special prize for the best interpretation of Haydn. In November 2001 she was awarded a scholarship by the prestigious Herbert von Karajan Centrum in Vienna and the Gottfried von Einem Foundation. In 2002 she received the Austrian National Award for Women in the Arts.
Anika Vavic made her debut at Vienna's Konzerthaus in 2003, playing Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto in B-flat minor. As a consequence, for the 2003/04 season she was chosen by the Vienna Musikverein and Konzerthaus for the highly esteemed "Rising Stars" concert cycle, which took her to the most famous concert halls in the world for recitals - among others to Carnegie Hall New York, Wigmore Hall London, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Vienna's Musikverein, Cologne's Philharmonie, the Cité de la Musique Paris, Mozarteum Salzburg and Festspielhaus Baden-Baden. Together with the Musikverein, the ORF produced a CD of her recital program.
Anika Vavic works regularly with orchestras such as the Mariinsky Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic or the Radio Symphony Orchestras of Belgrade and Leipzig, collaborating with conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Paavo Järvi, Stefan Blunier, Andrés Orozco-Estrada and Jorma Panula.
She performs at festivals such as the "White Nights" in St. Petersburg, Valery Gergiev's Mikkelli Festival in Finland, the Piano Festival Ruhr, Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, Grafenegg Festival, Heidelberger Frühling, Styriarte Graz, Klangbogen Wien, Istanbul Music Festival and the Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad.
Anika Vavic also appears regularly at Vienna's Musikverein and Konzerthaus. Recital tours have taken her to halls such as the Kennedy Center Washington, the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, Laeiszhalle Hamburg, Philharmonie Luxembourg, Palau de la Música in Barcelona and in many further cities in Italy, Ireland, Finland, Japan, China and South America, Germany, Switzerland and of course Austria. |