Year of birth: 2000
Place of birth: Zagreb
Educated in: Köln
Place of residence: Aachen
(Plays in Hamburg)

November 2024 Preselections

Watch Mia Pečnik performance.

Program

F. Liszt - Études d'exécution transcendante, S. 139: n. 12 "Chasse Neige" S. Rachmaninov - Études-Tableaux op. 39, no. 1 M. Ravel - La Valse  


Biography

Mia Pecnik is a student at the HfMT Köln (Prof. Frölich). She also participates in Talent Master Courses at the University of Music in Brescia. She is the winner of the leading awards for young musicians in Croatia like the Young Musician of the Year chosen by the Zagreb Philharmonic, „Oscar of knowledge” prizes, awarded by the Ministry of education etc. In international competitions she has won more than 80 first and special prizes and she took part in Cleveland Piano Competition, Telekom Beethoven Competition and Paderewski Competition. She has performed with orchestras around 30 times. At the age of 15, she had her debut with the Zagreb Philharmonic and has since recorded a CD with them. She has worked with renowned musicians such as Dang Thai Son, Andrea Bonatta, Piotr Paleczny, Dmitri Alexeev, etc.

 

Due to health reasons the candidates Shotaro Nishimura and Zixi Chen could not participate in the GPP 2022. They received the possibility to participate in this edition.

 

Candidates who withdrew from the competition:

Bily Robert
Deng Yubo
Durliat Gabriel
Guo Yungyung
Han Wenfang
Lee Shinyoung
Martinelli Riccardo
Park Chaeyoung
Thomazinho Lucas
Wang Jiapeng