Dr. Vedrana Subotic

Adjunct Associate Professor

Piano

Email
Phone: 801.230.2817
Office: 220 DGH

Chopin Mazurka, Op.17, No. 2.


Upcoming Performances:

Sundays@7 Concert Series

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Rachmaninoff Suite No.1 and Ravel "La Valse"

7 pm, Libby Gardner Hall, free admission

 

NOVA Concert Series

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Brahms C Minor Piano Quartet and Berg Songs

3 pm, Libby Gardner Hall, admission charge

 

Westminster College Concert Series

Monday, January 25, 2010

Chopin Ballades

performed by Vedrana Subotic

and friends

7:30 pm, Vieve Gore Hall, admission charge

 

Utah Chamber Artists Concert Series

Monday, March 1, 2010

Saint-Saens Sonata for Violin and Piano in D Major

7:30 pm, Libby Gardner Hall, admission charge

 

Sundays@7 Concert Series

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Shostakovich Piano Trio in E Minor, Strauss "Morgen,"

J. S. Bach "Erbarme Dich," and Martinu Sonata for

Two Violins and Piano

7 pm, Libby Gardner Hall, free admission

 

Sundays@7 Concert Series

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Brahms Sonata No.3 in F Minor

7 pm, Libby Gardner Hall, free admission

 

Intermezzo Concert Series

Mondays, July 12 - August 9, 2010

Repertoire tba

7:30 pm, Vieve Gore Hall

 

Westminster College Concert Series

Monday, October 18, 2010

Chopin Piano Concertos No. 1 and No. 2

7:30 pm, Vieve Gore Hall, admission charge

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

Concert Reviews:

Intermezzo Chamber Music Concert, August 15, 2007

Faculty Recital, December 8, 2004