Marija Gluvakov

Marija Gluvakov – Medenica (Serbian Cyrillic: Марија Глуваков – Меденица) (born 3 April 1973), is a Serbian pianist and piano teacher.

Education Gluvakov was born in Senta, Serbia, formerly Yugoslavia. She received her early training in music schools in Novi Kneževac, Bihać and Zemun. She graduated from the Faculty of Music in Belgrade in 1995, as the best student of the year. She completed there, with the highest marks, her postgraduate studies in both Piano Performance (1999) and Chamber Music (1997). Her primary teacher were Srebrenka Široki, Zorana Grbić, Miloš Ivanović and Olivera Djurdjević. She also studied with Dušan Trbojević, Arbo Valdma, Rita Kinka and with Russian pianists Dorensky and Pisarev, professors at the Moscow Conservatory.

Awards

As a soloist and chamber musician, Marija Gluvakov won top prizes at many state and federal competitions in former Yugoslavia, as well as at the international competitions in Rome and Stresa, Italy (both in 1995). written by eminent Serbian composer Rajko Maksimović (1995), performances in the Great Hall of the Ilija M. Kolarac Endowment in Belgrade, in the Church of St. Sophia in Ohrid, at the international music festivals BEMUS, NOMUS, Donne in musica and ClarinetFest (with clarinetist Andrija Blagojević, I.C.A. National Chairperson for Serbia), recitals in Belgrade and Smederevo organized by EPTA, participation in the project named Classical Guerrilla (a cycle of concerts held in 2002 in the Hall of the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra), collaboration with Serbian and foreign artists in several multimedial projects, etc. She was appointed assistant professor of piano in 2008.

Affiliations

Ms. Gluvakov has been a member of the Association of Musical Artists of Serbia since 1996.