Competitors

Arsen Dalibaltayan

Year of birth: 2003
Country: Croatia

Arsen Dalibaltayan, born in 2003 received his first piano lessons at the age of five. In 2009 he became a student of Professor J. Reba at the “Pavla Markovca” School of Music in Zagreb. In 2016 he continued his studies with Professor R. Dalibaltayan. Since 2014 Dalibaltayan has been a scholarship holder at the International Music Academy in the Principality of Liechtenstein. He has also worked with professors such as N. Trull and G. Gruzman. He gave his first performance with an orchestra at the age of nine, when he played Haydn’s Piano Concerto in D Major. In 2020 he performed Beethoven’s Second Piano Concerto in the Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall in Zagreb, for which he received the Chancellor’s Award. In 2022 he performed Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto with the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra. He has participated in many festivals in Croatia, such as Darko Lukic in Osijek and Splitsko ljeto, among others. In 2017 Dalibaltayan was invited to participate in international Next Generation music festival that took place in Bad Ragaz, Switzerland, and the following year he performed at the Rheingau Musik Festival in Germany. In 2019 and 2020 he performed on the VP BANK Classic Festival that also took place in Bad Ragaz, Switzerland. He has successfully performed in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Russia, Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Sweden and Singapore.

Programme

Round 1:
L. van Beethoven:
Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111
S. Rachmaninov: Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 36

Round 2:
F. Chopin: Prelude for piano No. 25 in C sharp minor, Op. 45
F. Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35
S. Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 8 in B flat major, Op. 84 (»War Sonata 3«)

Round 3:
S. Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30

Awards received

  • 1st prize, Croatian National Competition, Croatia, 2021
  • Grand Prix winner, A. D. Frank online international piano competition, Ufa, Russia, 2020
  • 1st prize, Series of Young Musicians Concerts mo. Vinko Lesic Competition, Split, Croatia, 2019
  • 1st prize, Jurica Murai Competition, Varaždin, Croatia, 2016
  • outright winner across all the categories and special prize for the best interpretation of a composition by Johann Sebastian Bach,  Virtuosi per musica di pianoforte International Piano Competition, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic, 2015
  • 1st prize, Croatian National Competition, Croatia, 2015
  • 1st prize, EPTA Competition, Osijek, Croatia, 2015
  • 1st prize, Città di Gorizia International Piano Competition, Gorizia, Italy, 2014
  • 1st prize, Young Virtuoso International Piano Competition, Zagreb, Croatia, 2014
  • 1st prize, Croatian National Competition, Croatia, 2013
  • 1st prize, Ars Nova International Piano Competition, Trieste, Italy, 2011
  • 1st prize, Città di Gorizia International Piano Competition, Gorizia, Italy, 2010

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