JAN NIKOVICH – CROATIA (23)

Jan Nikovich stands as a distinguished Croatian concert pianist, adorned with numerous accolades from prestigious competitions. He performs often in Croatia and abroad: Austria, Belgium, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, and the UK. He has performed with all the major orchestras in Croatia, and most recently with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra under Maestro Domingo Hindoyan. This performance was broadcast on ClassicFM radio. Jan holds victories and awards in many international competitions, including Ferdo Livadić, James Mottram (Manchester, UK), Papandopulo, Young Virtuosos, Citta di Gorizia, EPTA, Val Tidone, as well as being a multiple national winner in both the solo and chamber music categories. He is a seven-time winner of the Oscar Award awarded by the Ministry of Science and Education, and in 2020 he received the Rector’s Award at the University of Zagreb and the Yamaha Scholarship Award. 

He started learning piano with Ela Korbar and currently studies with Nataliya Trull and Ruben Dalibaltayan. Jan is a scholarship holder of the Academy of Music in Liechtenstein, and his other mentors include Eliso Virsaladze, Milana Chernyavska, Sergio Tiempo, Claudio Martinez Mehner, and Rena Shereshevskaya. Jan was selected for the Junior Music Camp in Barcelona, where he worked and played with Lang Lang, which resulted in a performance with him at the Allianz Arena Stadium in Munich in front of 70,000 people. Jan’s video recordings have attracted millions of listeners on social media platforms, and in 2024 he was nominated for the Croatian Person of the Year Award by the Večernji list newspaper.