Vedrana Subotic

Piano

Doctor of Music (Piano Performance & Literature) - Indiana University, Bloomington

minor in Muisc History and Chamber Music

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 its 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. In the first two months of 2006, Vedrana has performed in over twenty concerts, including recent engagements in Puerto Rico. Upcoming engagements include a performance of a Mozart piano concerto on the University of Utah’s Mozart Festival, and the Utah premier of Alban Berg’s Chamber Concerto on the Intermezzo Chamber Music Series.

Vedrana’s more recent performances include 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 in 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 2003 as one of the top ten musical events in Utah. An active adjudicator and clinician, Vedrana recently served on the Gina Bachauer International Junior Piano Competition Jury (preliminary round) and was also invited by the Utah Symphony to give a masterclasses to its Youth Guild members. Vedrana’s students have continued their musical studies at leading music schools in United States and Europe and have won awards in numerous competitions.

An avid admirer and dedicated champion of the pedagogical schools from the days of the “old-world” piano legends, Vedrana has been trained by internationally acclaimed pedagogues and performers who have studied with Arthur Schnabel, Rosina Lhevinne, Robert Goldsand, Rudolph Serkin, and Vladimir Horowitz. In addition to maintaining a private studio of gifted young students in Salt Lake City, 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. She is currently an adjunct Assistant Professor of piano at the University of Utah, and is also a Director of the piano program at the Horne School of Music at Snow College (UT), an all-Steinway school, established in 2003.

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 from Indiana University. She is currently a DMA candidate (abd) at 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.