Veljko Nenadić in Novi Sad, February 2018
[Текст на српском] Piano City Promo Weekend Saturday, February 24th, as an overture in expectation of the new instance of Piano City Festival, hosted a piano concert of a young and extremely talented composer and pianist Veljko Nenadić.
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Just stepping out of his teenage years, this young man already has an impressive list of International Awards:
- Golden Key Piano Composition Competition USA: Winner 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, second in 2016, third in 2015
- Moscow international festival of Slavic music: Winner 2015, second 2016
- Piano Composition Competition Fidelio, Espana: Winner 2013, finalist 2016, semifinalist 2017, finalist and semifinalist 2018 (and still waiting results)
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Checking the Piano before the performance.
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For this evening he prepared a program of original compositions:
- Contrast (Second: Moscow 2016, Golden Key USA 2016)
- Melancholic Night (Winner: Moscow 2015, Golden Key USA 2017)
- Closing Miniatures (Third, Golden Key USA 2015)
- Train (Premiere)
- Piano Suite (Premiere)
- Nocturno (Finalist: Fidelio 2018)
- Toccata (Semifinalist: Fidelio 2018)
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Impressive stuff for a young man who just last year became a freshman at the Musical Academy in Belgrade, in the class of professor Isidora Žebeljan.
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Veljko was born and raised in Smederevo, Serbia. He attended Music School “Kosta Manojlović”, and became a part of the best generation that school have ever gave.
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Before the Academy, he already had published an audio CD with his schoolmates under the name “Sounds of the Balkans”. Most interesting combination of Piano and Flute.
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Never before have you had a chance to hear such delicate combination of classic music and ethno-jazz…
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This is only the beginning of a brilliant career.
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That was his first performance at the Piano City Festival, but we are sure it won't be the last. His time is coming.
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Excellent bio, looking forward to hearing more about this young man. Lovely shots too, especially given the ISO you were working at. Top class, resteemed.
Thank you very much, @colmedwardsphoto.
Nenadich is my family's name! I was born a Nenadich, but I was adopted and have a different name now.
There aren't many of us in America. I've never seen the last name outside of my family before.
I might be his cousin!!!
It's a small World, @tarotbyfergus, it barely exists :)
Do you know details about your background?
My great grandfather came to America from Bosnia with my great grandmother who came from Slovenia. That's all I know currently.
Then you just might be related to this young man, @tarotbyfergus! His family also has a background in Bosnia, I think it's Bijeljina region. You could ask his father @dragannenadic if you find more details about your family :)
Incredibly talented young pianist! To be able to play well across genres is really a mark of a good musician!
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