Background
Krpan, Vladimir Dragutin was born on January 11, 1938 in Zagreb, Croatia. Son of Dragutin Josip Krpan and Katica Jelka Pazic.
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Krpan, Vladimir Dragutin was born on January 11, 1938 in Zagreb, Croatia. Son of Dragutin Josip Krpan and Katica Jelka Pazic.
He also studied with Guido Agosti, Renzo Silvestri and Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli in Rome, Arezzo, Siena, Bergamo and Lugano.
He founded the piano department at the Music Academy in Skopje (Republic of Macedonia) from 1971. He teaches at the Music Academy of the University in Zagreb where he raised a few generations of young pianists such as Pedja Muzijevic, Katarina Krpan, Srdjan Caldarovic, Lana Genc, Martina Filjak, Maksim Mrvica, Bruno Vlahek and many others In his pedagogical work, he combines elements of Stancic"s Zagreb Piano School and the heritage of the Italian school, especially Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli"son
He is an active promoter of music by Croatian composers, which holds a special place in his repertoire.
Krpan has collaborated with many conductors and has had appearances in all the major music centres in Croatia and Europe as well as in the United States of America, Russia, Iran, India, North and South of Korea, Turkey and Thailand. He is an author of a television series dedicated to Croatian piano music, editor of many Croatian composers" works, and author of specialized articles in national and international music magazines.
He recorded numerous solo and chamber music works for radio and television as well as 20 LPs and 15 CDs for different labels. He is a juror at international piano competitions and regularly holds master classes in his country and abroad.
Member of European Piano Teachers Association (president Zagreb chapter since 1998, president London chapter 1996-1997), Order International Fellows, Rotary.
Married Erika Marica Jirku, May 8, 1972. 1 child Katarina.