The music of Marko Perkovic – Thompson represents the fusion of rock and folk, carying powerful lyrics that celebrate Croatian history, nature, and Biblical values. About 90% of the audience were young people. The stage was a towering structure 33 m high and 150 m wide, crafted by experts from Dubai. This was the greatest ticketed concert in history, surpassing Rolling Stones, Micheal Jackson, ACDC,…! Marko Perković – Thompson and his wife Sandra are blessed with five children.
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Ivana Marija Vidović declared Honorary Academician in Bari, Italy 2025
Academy of Arts and Philosophical Sciences in Bari, Italy: We are appointing Ivana Marija Vidović as an Honorary Academician because of her extraordinary talent, primarily as a pianist, because of her dedication to music and culture in general, because of the international reputation she has achieved during her career so far. An artist of rare dedication to music and sensibility, Ivana Marija Vidović enchants audiences around the world.
Yoko Nishii's 2025 concerts in Mostar, Zupanja, Vinkovci, Labin, and Sisak
Yoko Nishii is a great connoisseur of Croatia. She is fluent in Croatian language, and had more than sixty soloist concerts throughout Croatia and in parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). In 2025, she had five soloist concerts: in Mostar (BiH), Vinkovci, Županja, Labin, and Sisak. Among other things, she was a guest of the Croatian Dragon Society in Zagreb . In Mostar, her concert was organized by dr. fra Andrija Nikić, the president of the Napredak (Advancement) Society and of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts of BiH, within the international conference dedicated to marking 1100 years since the appearence of the earliest Croatian Kingdom.
Ivana Marija Vidovic a member of the jury of the 2025 Moszkowski pianistic competition in Poland
Up there, far away, in cold Poland where the sun is still pale and completely wintery, my heart was warmed by countless young talents who, from category A to those aged 25, have established themselves as exceptionally gifted and disciplined. In category A, at the age of eleven, the little prince Szýmon Go?linski, as I like to call him, delighted us with his breathtaking interpretation!
Ivana Marija Vidović opet u žiriju glasovitog pijanističkog natjecanja u Provansi 21.-26. travnja 2025.
U prekrasnom, provansalskom gradu prepunom šarma Saint Paul Trois-Chateaux održana je treća edicija glasovitog pijanističkog natjecanja Saint Paul Trois-Chateaux. Tim predivnim gradom od kamena baš poput Dubrovnika, cijeli je tjedan odzvanjala najljepša glazba. U međunarodnom žiriju uglednih pedagoga i koncertnih pijanista opet se našla hrvatska pijanistica Ivana Marija Vidović iz Dubrovnika. Žiri je imao težak i odgovoran posao jer je nivo natjecanja bio vrlo zavidan.
Helen Merrill aka Jelena Ana Milcetic, one of the most distinctive jazz singers ever
Helen Merrill, distinguished Croatian-American jazz singer, was born in New York in 1929 as Jelena Ana Milčetić. Her both parents are from Croatia, originating from the island of Krk. Accorading to Joao Moreira dos Santos, she is one of the most distinctive jazz singers ever. Her music production i senormous, including also songs that she sung in Italian, Japanese, French, and her native Croatian languages. Some of the melodies that she sung in Croatian are “Kyrie” (glagolitic church song), “Tanac” (Dance, from the island of Krk in Croatia), and “Ti si rajski cvijet” (You are a heavenly flower).
Johnny Mercer, distinguished American singer, lyricist and songwriter, has Croatian roots on his mother's side
Among the best known of Johnny Mercer’s songs are “Moon River”, “Autumn Leaves”, “Days of Wine and Roses”, and “Hooray for Hollywood”. He wrote the lyrics to more than 1,500 songs, including compositions for movies and Broadway shows. He received nineteen Oscar nominations, and won four Best Original Song Oscars. His roots on his mother’s side are Croatia: his grandfather (Ivan Josip Čučević, i.e., John Joseph Ciucevich) was born in Croatia on the island of Lastovo.
Yoko Nishii Japanese pianist touring Croatia, Hungary, and BiH in 2024
In Sptember 2024, Yoko Nishii had a series of three concerts: in Vukovar, Osijek, and Vinkovci. She even delivered a public lecture in Vinkovici, dealing with Croatian-Japanese ties. She also had concerts in Budapest (at the Embassy of Japan, but with mixed Japanese, Hungarian and Croatian programs), as well as in Mostar in BiH, and in Zagreb. During her rich pianist career, Yoko Nishii had as many as 61 soloist concerts in 26 Croatian cities. She had her first concert in 1999, in the city of Opatija on Croatia coast.
Baby Lasagna is the true winner of the 2024 Eurosong Contest in Malmö
Music and text by Baby Lasagna (= Marko Purišić). Comments: 0% cursing 0% bad 100% TALENT 100% RIM TIM TAGI DIM | Not every legend is a winner. Not every winner is a legend. | TOTALLY blown away by the singer, the song, the video, the story, the folklore, the humour, the sadness, the anxiety, the rhytm, the power, the freshness, I’ll send my12 points from Norway! | I cannot believe this song wasn’t number one in Eurovision | I meowed back. 12 points from the United States! | 200 points from Scotland…
Armenia and Croatia marking the establishment of their diplomatic ties in 1995
Lipnja 2024. su koncerte pod nazivom ‘ Glazbeni pozdravi Armeniji iz Hrvatske ‘ i ‘ Hrvatska sakralna baština – pjevajuća molitva na izvoru kršćanstva ‘, te humanitarni koncert za Armenski Caritas pod nazivom ‘ Glazbeni zagrljaj Armeniji iz Hrvatske ‘ održali u Yerevanu hrvatski glazbeni umjetnici, sopranistica Nikolina Pinko, tenor Stjepan Franetović i pijanistica i orguljašica Evu Kirchmayer Bilić.
Symphony of Care dedicated to Nenad Bach created by BAI
Nenad Bach – a great person who has brought joy to so many people around the world with his music and whose fight for world peace and against Parkinson’s is a role model not just for me, but for thousands. He certainly deserved a song that honored his incredible commitment! But that it would be me, of all people, who would create this song is as hard to imagine as the fact that it is apparently even “pretty good”. Have a listen! … Text by Thorsten Boomhuis, a member of PPP in Germany. On the photo – a part of a drawing of Nenad Bach by Cynthia Nelms Byrne.
Zlatko Josip Grgić Croatian guitarist playing Chaconne by J. S. Bach on the famous Torres guitar La Invencible
Zlatko Josip Grgić was born in Croatia’s capital Zagreb in 2001. From his earliest childhood, he has been surrounded by some of the best guitar players in the world. In the spring of 2018, he recorded Ennio Morricone’s Cinema Paradiso as a music video in Venice. In December 2018, he gave a successful concert in Barcelona on the famous Torres guitar, La Invencible (The Invincible), as Torres himself had named it, which is the only guitar among the National Treasures of Spain. On that occasion, the Spanish gave Zlatko Josip Grgić has the nickname Torres’ Whisperer .
Ivana Marija Vidovic a member of the pianist jury for PREMIO TUSCANY in Italy
Ivana Marija Vidović was on the jury in Tuscany for the first time, and at the personal invitation of the world-famous pianist Daniel Rivera, as the very first Croatian from Dubrovnik to join such jury and to decide the winners in all categories for solo piano. In addition to the Argentinian pianist Daniel Rivera, the jury included the president of the jury, the German pianist, organist, conductor and president of the Schubert competition in Germany, Roland Proell, and two Italian colleagues, Federica Monti and Vincenzo Marrone d’Alberti.
Yoko Nishii bridges Okinawa, Japan and Croatia performing Dora Pejacevic
The concert is organized by the Honorary Consulate of Croatia in Naha as a cultural exchange program between Croatia and Naha City. Also, as a charity concert, the proceeds will be donated through the Croatian Embassy to support the recovery from the Noto Peninsula Earthquake. The program includes compositions by Dora Pejačević (1885-1923), the first Croatian women-composer. The concert will take place on 19th May 2024 in the Naha Cultural Arts Theater “NAHArt”, which was opened in 2021.
Ivana Marija Vidović from Dubrovnik in the prestigious jury in France, Provence 2024
Last week, the Dubrovnik pianist Ivana Marija Vidović was a member of the prestigious expert jury of the International Piano Competition Saint Paul Trois-Chateaux. Vidović was in the jury alongside maestro Marc Moncusi from Barcelona, pianist Sabrina Dente from Italy, pianist and organist Christoph Ewers from Germany, and pianist and director Pierre-Laurent Boucharlat from France. The jury chose the interpretation of Edward Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor and with that also chose the winner, twenty-four-year-old Shion Ota from Japan. The second and third prizes went also to Japan.
Hauser – cellist's story from Croatia to global music celebrity
Since that fateful moment when he decided to create a new, musical experience out of the long and established traditions of classical, pop and rock music, HAUSER has been playing arena concerts all over the world and, defying the conventions of the established music business. As part of the quintessential 2Cellos, Hauser has toured the world – from the Royal Albert Hall and the Sydney Opera House to New YorkAcEUR(TM)s Madison Square Garden selling more than one million tickets to their live shows. During the Christmas 2021 season, he had the great honor of performing and appearing in front of Pope Francis but he has also given performances to several American Presidents, Prince Charles as well as Queen Elizabeth.
Chriztel Renae Aceveda young Filipino girl singing traditional Croatian songs
Chriztel came to Croatia in September 2020 at the age of 9, when her Filipina mother and Croatian father moved to the town Sveti Martin na Muri. When it is time for her to sing at the Supertalent TV show in Croatia’s capital Zagreb, everybody holds their breath. Without any accompaniment, Chriztel’s sweet angelic voice fills the studio. The beautiful melody of the Croatian folk song “Dej mi Bože”, and her soothing and heartfelt rendition bring some members of the audience to tears. The judges are speechless. Everyone is mesmerized. Even Chriztel’s mom and dad are both fighting back tears.
Humanitarni koncert za Opću bolnicu DUBROVNIK
Najavljujemo početak humanitarne akcije uglednih umjetnika različitih profila ali s istom srdačnom željom u ova sveto doba: “Kupnja suvremenog aparata za kardiološki odjel Opće bolnice Dubrovnik”. Pozivamo svih da nam se pridruže u hvalevrijednoj akciji: samostalne građane, poduzeća i sve pojedince da doprinesu koliko bili u mogućnosti. Upravo Božić nas uči biti boljima, biti dijelom velike ljudske obitelji. Podupiru: Klapa Ragusa, Radojka Šverko, Vladimir Babin, Suzi Sokol, Ivana Marija Vidović, Dijana Hilje.
Ivana Marija Vidovic presided the "Ariano International Piano Competition" in Italy 2023
Respected Dubrovnik pianist, Ivana Marija Vidović, returned from Italy full of impressions after chairing the international piano competition ‘Ariano International Piano Competition.’ Being the head of the jury, she emphasized that it came as a pleasant surprise, and the entire experience enriched her. She mentioned that once again, she had the opportunity to represent her hometown Dubrovnik.