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Feb 07, 1940 Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik Neretva County, Croatia 84 years old
Slovene pianist
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About Dubravka Tomi Srebotnjak
- Dubravka Tomšic Srebotnjak (born 7 February 1940 in Dubrovnik, Croatia, Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is a Slovenian pianist and music teacher. Tomsic received private lessons at a very young age and continued with education at the Music High School in Ljubljana and later at the Slovene Academy of Music under professor Zora Zarnik.
- Following the advice of concert pianist Claudio Arrau, she went to the United States at age 12 and in 1957 graduated from Juilliard School of Music in New York.
- Her teachers were Katherine Bacon and Alexander Uninsky.
- Arthur Rubinstein heard her New York Town Hall recital and invited her to study with him privately in the late 1950s.
- Tomšic became one of Rubinstein's most important protegées. Tomsic has been teaching piano at the Slovene Academy of music in Ljubljana since 1967.
- She has had a wide ranging concert career and is often invited to judge piano competitions including Van Cliburn, Leeds, L.
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- Beethoven, Clara Haskil, and others.
- Dubravka Tomšic is very much sought after as a performer, making recital and concerto appearances all over Europe, Asia, North America, Mexico, Australia and Africa.
- She is credited with more than 3,500 performances and more than 20 records and 70 CD releases.
- For her artistic and pedagogic endeavours she has received numerous awards: 3rd prize at the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition (Bolzano, 1961), Prešeren Fund Award (1962), 1.
- award at Mozart's festival recital (Brussels, 1967), Župancic Award (1970), gold lyre SUMUJ Award (1974), Prešeren Award (1975), AVNOJ Award (1976), Golden Award of the University in Ljubljana for her pedagogic and artistic achievements (1989), etc.
- She is an honorary member of the Slovene Philharmonics since 1995. Her students include: Majda Martinc, Sonja Pahor, Hinko Haas, Lidija Stankovic, Tatjana Ognjanovic, Tomaž Petrac, Anja German, Miha Haas, Slaven Kulenovic, Natalija Šaver, Tadej Horvat and Fada Azzeh. She was married to the late Slovenian composer Alojz Srebotnjak and has a son Martin Srebotnjak, who is a Slovenian film director.
