Radovan Vlatkovic / horn

One of the leading instrumentalists of his generation, Radovan Vlatkovic has travelled the globe performing extensively as a soloist and popularising the horn as a recording artist and teacher. Born in Zagreb, he completed his studies at the Zagreb Academy of Music and the Music Academy in Detmold, Germany. Vlatkovic is the recipient of many first prizes in international competitions, including the ARD Competition in Munich in 1983 – the first to be awarded to a horn player for fourteen years. This led to numerous invitations to music festivals and venues in Europe, USA, South America, Japan, Australia. Radovan Vlatkovic has played world-premiere performances of works by Elliott Carter, Sofia Gubaidulina and Heinz Holliger. In 2008, he performed the highly-acclaimed premiere Krzysztof Penderecki's Horn Concerto Winterreise, which was especially composed for him, with the Bremen Philharmonic Orchestra. Vlatkovic has received the German Critics Award for several of his recordings, including the Mozart and Strauss Concertos with the English Chamber Orchestra and Jeffrey Tate. Since 2000, Vlatkovic holds the Horn Chair "Canon" at the Queen Sofia School in Madrid. He has also been teaching at the Musikhochschule Zürich.