El Condado Ahora stated that “professionalism, cleanliness in touch, technique and great musicality are the characteristics of Petricevic, who lately has won the most important competitions in the world of the guitar.”
According to audience and critics, his performances have often been described as “more than a touch of class” and “Angel on Guitar”.
The 2014 concert season included the “Ramirez-Carisch Tour” at festivals such as “Andres Segovia” in Madrid, “Tertulia at Tienda Ramirez” in Spain, the “Fiuggi Guitar Festival” in Italy and others, as well as appearances at “Porgy & Bess” in Vienna, a masterclass and performance for the VAMÖ organization in Austria, and numerous recitals and outreach concerts throughout Europe. He has performed at venues including the Musikverein in Vienna, Mozart’s House, Castle Schönbrunn with the Webern Symphonic Orchestra, Festival “Josephstadt”, St. Cyprian Church in London and the Festival “Guitar Days” in Zagreb.
In the 2015/2016 season he will perform at prestigious events such as Festival Della Valle Dell’Orfento “Caramanico Therme” in Pescara, Festival Internacional de Guitarra Girona – Costa Brava, Festival Internacional de Música “Ciudad de Linares”, Festival Internacional de Guitarra “Villa de Aranda” in Aranda de Duero, Conservatorio de Música “María Molina” in Úbeda, the International Festival Bangkok in Thailand, Festival Magnitogorsk in Russia, Hermoupolis Guitar Festival in Greece, the “Andres Segovia” Festival in Linares and other concerts across Europe, Asia and America.
He has won first prizes at major competitions including Certamen “Comarca el Condado” (Spain, 2015), the “Andres Segovia” Competition in Linares (Spain, 2014), “Hermoupolis Guitar Festival” in Syros (Greece, 2014), “Fiuggi Guitar Festival” in Fiuggi (Italy, 2014) and the “Peloponnese Guitar Festival” (Greece, 2016). He has also received top awards at competitions such as “Villa de Aranda” in Spain, “Vienna Guitar Competition” in Austria, “Enrico Mercatali” in Italy, “Sinaia Festival” in Romania, “Guitar Art” Festival in Serbia, the “ÖJAB” music contest in Vienna and many others.
In 2009 he was accepted into the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation’s “Live Music Now” program in Vienna and Cologne, giving numerous concerts and recitals. That same year he was nominated as one of the most successful instrumentalists of the selected soloists’ performance content at the Vienna University of Music and received awards from the Tokyo Foundation and the Viktor Bunzl Foundation.
The 2012 season included nearly one hundred concerts as part of the “La Strada” concert series with violinists Illya Huliychuk and Kamile Kabiliute.
Ivan Petricevic was born in 1987 in Belgrade, former Yugoslavia. He studied with Ante Cagalj at the Conservatory of Music “Elly Basic” in Zagreb, Croatia, and continued his studies with Alvaro Pierri, Walter Würdinger and Roberto Aussel at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna and at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne, Germany.
