IVANA GAVRIĆ (piano) was born in Sarajevo . She recently completed a Masters in Advanced Performance with distinction at the Royal College of Music, where she studied with Niel Immelman and Roger Vignoles. In 2001, she gained her bachelor degree in music from Cambridge University, where she was also an Instrumental award holder.

Recent performances include Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto with the Orchestra of the City in Knightsbridge, as well as concertos with orchestras in Cambridge and Barcelona and recitals in Moscow , Milan and Tokyo . She was a prizewinner at the RCM Beethoven Competition, and was highly commended in the Birmingham Accompanist of the Year Award 2005. Since 2004, she has been awarded an annual scholarship by the Oxford Philomusica International Piano Festival to study with Dmitry Bashkirov, Menahem Pressler and Alexander Satz.

Ivana works with many instrumentalists and singers, and in duo with clarinettist Helen Paskins, she won a place on the outreach scheme ‘Live Music Now!’, set up by Yehudi Menuhin. She has accompanied colleagues in recitals at The Linbury Studio Theatre, Covent Garden, Music for Wexford festival in Ireland and at the Cambridge Summer Music Festival.

In autumn 2005, Ivana was invited by the Oscar-winning director Anthony Minghella to perform on the soundtrack of his new film, Breaking and Entering, out in spring 2006. She also plays the rôle of Russian pianist Nina Glaserova in the BBC adaptation of Alan Hollinghurst’s Booker Prize-winning novel The Line of Beauty, performing Chopin Sonata No 2 and Beethoven’s Les Adieux.