Vedrana Subotic, DM
Piano
Doctor of Music (Piano Performance & Literature) - Indiana University, Bloomington
Minors in Music History and Chamber Music
(Dissertation - Debussy's influence on the piano music of Toru Takemitsu: The parallels between the common creative sources for Debussy’s Images books I and II, and Toru Takemitsu's Litany (Lento In Due Movimenti), Pause Ininterrompue, Les Jeux Clos II, and Rain Tree Sketch II.
Artist Diploma - Indiana University, Bloomington
Master of Music - Michigan State University
Bachelor of Music - Belgrade University
Pianist Vedrana Subotic has won international acclaim from critics and audiences for her refined interpretations, rich tonal pallet, and supreme levels of technical and musical mastery. Her debut solo performance at age nine was broadcasted on national television in her native country, the former Yugoslavia. Upon winning the top prize in Yugoslavia's National Piano Competition, Vedrana moved to the United States. She has since been active as a soloist and a chamber musician in the Americas and Europe. She performs in dozens of concerts a year, combining concerto appearances, solo recitals, chamber music collaborations, and orchestral performances.
Vedrana’s more recent performances include concert tours in Puerto Rico, the Utah premier of Alban
Berg’s Chamber Concerto, appearing as a soloist in Beethoven’s fifth piano concerto with the Dubrovnik Symphony, and Prokofiev’s third piano concerto at the Chautauqua Festival in New York, as well as chamber music concerts at the International Chamber Music Festival in Nis, Serbia, the Dubrovnik Summer Festival, the Chautauqua Festival, the American Festival for the Arts in Houston, and Intermezzo and Temple Square Concert Series in Salt Lake City, Utah. She has collaborated in recital with such artists as Joseph Silverstein and Paul Neubauer, and is a member of the Porter-Subotic Duo with her husband, Utah Symphony violinist David Porter. Vedrana has also performed concerts in Bratislava, Prague, Belgrade, London, and Venice, as well as throughout the United States and Canada. Vedrana’s artistry and extensive concert activity has attracted the attention of the Director of the Worldwide Concert and Artists division at the Steinway corporation in NY. In 2003, she was invited to join the distinguished roster of Steinway Artists.
In addition to faculty recitals and lectures, Vedrana performs regularly in local concert venues, and has appeared as a soloist with the Utah Symphony, Utah Chamber Orchestra, and the Weber State and Snow College Orchestras. Vedrana is a founding member and Music Director of the Intermezzo Chamber Music Concert Series, hailed by the Salt Lake Tribune, in its first year (2003), as one of the top ten musical events in Utah.
Vedrana has taught piano at Indiana University, Hartford Conservatory, and the Chautauqua Institution in NY where she was also Head of the Instrumental Accompanying from 1995-2001. In 2003, she founded the piano program at the Horne School of Music at Snow College (UT), an all-Steinway school, and directed it until 2008. An active clinician and adjudicator, Vedrana has served on the Gina
Bachauer International Junior Piano Competition Jury, and is a frequent guest as a master-teacher at the Utah Symphony's Youth Guild masterclasses. She has presented
lectures on a variety of pedagogical and performance topics for the Utah Music Teachers Association and the Suzuki Piano Association.
An avid admirer and dedicated champion of the piano traditions from the
days of the “old-world” performing legends, Vedrana has been trained by
internationally acclaimed pedagogues and performers who continued the
legacy of Arthur Schnabel, Rosina Lhevinne, Robert Goldsand, Rudolph
Serkin, and Vladimir Horowitz. In addition to her University of Utah piano studio, Vedrana maintains a private
studio of gifted young students in Salt Lake City. Her students have continued their musical studies at leading
music schools in United States and Europe and have won awards in
numerous competitions.
Vedrana graduated from the former Yugoslavia’s State Music Conservatory at age fifteen, and a Bachelor of Music degree from Belgrade University four years later. She has since earned a Master of Music from Michigan State University, and an Artist Diploma and Doctor of Music from Indiana University. Her teachers have included Menahem Pressler, Arbo Valdma, Leonard Hokanson, Peter Frankl, Ralph Votapek, Gyorgy Sebok, Byron Janis, Janos Starker, and Josef Gingold.
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