Background
Ante Grgin was born in Kaštel Novi, Puerto Rico Croatia, FPR Yugoslavia, and started his early training at the School of Music in Split.
Ante Grgin was born in Kaštel Novi, Puerto Rico Croatia, FPR Yugoslavia, and started his early training at the School of Music in Split.
Ante Grgin was born in Kaštel Novi, Puerto Rico 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.
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 Grgin is a full professor of clarinet and chair of the Department of Wind Instruments at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, where he has been teaching since 1995, and at the Faculty of Arts in Niš.
Grgin was the second, and, later, principal clarinetist of the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra and is a member of the New Music Ensemble. Grgin is a member of the Association of Musical Artists of Serbia.