Ante Grgin Explained

Ante Grgin (born 1945) is a Croatian clarinetist and composer.

Education

Ante Grgin was born in Kaštel Novi, PR Croatia, FPR Yugoslavia, and started his early training at the School of Music in Split. He completed his undergraduate (1969) and graduate (1974) studies at the Belgrade Music Academy, under the tuition of renowned professor Bruno Brun.^{[1] [2]}

Performance career

Grgin was the second,^[3] and, later, principal clarinetist of the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra and is a member of the New Music Ensemble. As a soloist and chamber musician, he has played in the country and abroad (France, Switzerland, Italy, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Russia, Belarus, China etc.) and took part at various festivals, such as: BEMUS, The Days in Honour of Mokranjac, Marble Sounds and others.^{[4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]}

Compositions

Grgin has composed a number of pieces for piano, violin, viola, flute, clarinet, saxophone, oboe, bassoon, trumpet, horn. His compositions are characterized by tendency towards free forms, style models of jazzed symphony, evergreen harmonies, Balkan folklore rhythms and highly emphasized melodic as a part of instrument nature to which Grgin has dedicated his performing and creative work. Numerous artists who have performed his compositions includes world-renowned names, such as: Irena Grafenauer and Mate Bekavac.^{[10] [11]}

Teaching experience

Grgin is a full professor of clarinet and chair of the Department of Wind Instruments at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, where he taught from 1995 to 2014, and at the Faculty of Arts in Niš.^{[12] [13] [14] [15]}

Awards and honors

As a student, Grgin won the Second Prize at the Jeunesses Musicales International Competition in Belgrade (1971) and also had remarkable achievements at various prestigious international open competitions in Geneve, Munich and Prague. Later, during his professional career, he got a number of prominent awards, such as: "Dositej Obradović" Award, The Recognition Medallion of the City of Belgrade, The Letter of Thanks of the Faculty of Music, Golden Medallion of the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of this institution, Silver Medallion of the University of Arts, as well as the Association of Musical Artists of Serbia Award for the Best Concert of the Season. Grgin was a jury member at various competitions.^{[16] [17] [18] [19] [20]}

Affiliations

Grgin is a member of the Association of Musical Artists of Serbia.^[21]

References

• Blagojevic, Andrija. “Jeunesses Musicales International Competition in Belgrade, Serbia.“ The Clarinet, Vol. 39/4 (September 2012), pp. 78–84.
• Blagojevic, Andrija. "Bruno Brun (1910-1978) - Founder of the Yugoslav clarinet school." The Clarinet, Vol. 41/3 (June 2014), pp. 46–51.
• Blagojević, Andrija. "The Establishment of the Serbian Clarinet School." The Clarinet, Vol. 51/1 (December 2023), pp. 40–45.
• Jugokoncert: 1946-1971, ed. by Milena Milanović. Belgrade: Yugoslav concert agency, 1971.
• Maksimović, M.(1971): Beogradska filharmonija 1951 - 1971, Beogradska filharmonija, Beograd
• Nikolajević, S. (1994): Muzika kao događaj, Clio, Beograd
• Pedeset godina Fakulteta muzičke umetnosti (Muzičke akademije) 1937 - 1987 (1988), Univerzitet umetnosti u Beogradu, Beograd
• Yoder, Rachel. “Clarinet Pedagogy Around The World.” The Clarinet 50, no. 4 (September 2023): 57–60.

External links

• Biography in English, French and German, 2 pp. (PDF file; 289 kB)
• Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra
• Faculty of Music in Belgrade
• Association of Musical Artists of Serbia
• Compositions by Ante Grgin
• Lepo peva klarinet-Četiri decenije umetnosti Ante Grgina, Politika, December 8, 2006

Notes and References

1. http://nimusfest.com/2006/antegrgin.html Nimus06 Ante Grgin’s biography at the website of NIMUS 2006 festival
2. http://www.belef.org/02/prog/028.html Ante Grgin’s biography at the website of BELEF 2002 festival
3. Miodrag Maksimović, Beogradska filharmonija 1951-1971 (Beograd: Beogradska filharmonija, 1971), p. 122
4. Miodrag Maksimović, Beogradska filharmonija 1951-1971 (Beograd: Beogradska filharmonija, 1971), p. 132
5. http://www.bemus.rs/sr/36bemus/319-ante-grgin.html Concert of the Trio: Ante Grgin, Sandra Belić, Rita Kinka
6. http://www.barikada.com/ng/08_sarajevska_filharmonija.php Ante Grgin's performance
7. http://www.artf.ni.ac.rs/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=144&Itemid=1 Review of one of Grgin's recitals - by Sonja Cvetković, 2008-03-28, Faculty of Arts at the University of Niš
8. http://nimusfest.com/2006/antegrgin.html Nimus06 Ante Grgin’s biography at the website of NIMUS 2006 festival
9. http://www.belef.org/02/prog/028.html Ante Grgin’s biography at the website of BELEF 2002 festival
10. http://nimusfest.com/2006/antegrgin.html Nimus06 Ante Grgin’s biography at the website of NIMUS 2006 festival
11. http://www.belef.org/02/prog/028.html Ante Grgin’s biography at the website of BELEF 2002 festival
12. http://nimusfest.com/2006/antegrgin.html Nimus06 Ante Grgin’s biography at the website of NIMUS 2006 festival
13. http://www.belef.org/02/prog/028.html Ante Grgin’s biography at the website of BELEF 2002 festival
14. http://www.fmu.bg.ac.rs/fmu/katedra_za_duvacke_inst.html Faculty of Music in Belgrade, Department of Wind Instruments
15. http://www.artf.ni.ac.rs/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=28&Itemid=66 Faculty of Arts in Niš, Department of String and Wind Instruments
16. Snežana Nikolajević, Muzika kao događaj (Beograd: Clio, 1994), p. 77
17. http://www.umus.org.rs/html/en.htm List of recipients
18. http://nimusfest.com/2006/antegrgin.html Nimus06 Ante Grgin’s biography at the website of NIMUS 2006 festival
19. http://www.belef.org/02/prog/028.html Ante Grgin’s biography at the website of BELEF 2002 festival
20. http://www.music-competition.co.rs/2012/index.html The Jury
21. http://www.umus.org.rs/html/files/en/05.htm Members of the Association of Musical Artists of Serbia