Radovan Vlatković

Born in Zagreb 1962, Radovan Vlatković completed his studies with Professor Prerad Detiček at the Zagreb Academy of Music and with Professor Michael Höltzel at the Music Academy in Detmold, Germany. Radovan Vlatković is the recipient of several first prizes at national and international competitions, including the Premio Ancona in 1979 and the ARD Competition in Munich in 1983 – the first to be awarded to a horn player for fourteen years. This success resulted in numerous invitations to music festivals throughout Europe including Salzburg, Vienna, Edinburgh and Dubrovnik to name but a few. He was also invited to perform in the Americas, Australia, Israel, Korea and Japan.

From 1982 until 1990 he was Principal Horn of the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin (now Deutsches Symphonie Orchester) under Maestros Riccardo Chailly and Vladimir Ashkenazy. From 1992 to 1998 he held the post of horn Professor at the Stuttgart Musikhochschule. In 1998 he became a Professor at the renowned Mozarteum in Salzburg. Since 2000 he has held the Horn Chair “Canon” at the Queen Sofia School of Music in Madrid.

Radovan Vlatković has appeared as soloist with many distinguished symphony and chamber orchestras including the Bavarian Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart Radio Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie Orchester, Munich Chamber Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields, Mozarteum Orchestra, Camerata Academica Salzburg, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Santa Cecilia Orchestra Rome, Rotterdam Philharmonic, the orchestras of Berne, Basel and Zürich, the Lyon and Strassbourg Orchestras, NHK Orchestra, Tokyo Metropolitan and Yomiuri Orchestra, Adelaide and Melbourne Orchestras.

In the years 2000 – 2003 he was Artistic Director of the September Chamber Music Festival in Maribor, Slovenia. He regularly performs with András Schiff, Heinz Holliger, Elmar Schmid and Klaus Thunemann. As a chamber musician he has performed at Gidon Kremer’s Lockenhaus, Sviatoslav Richter December Evenings in Moscow, Oleg Kagan and Natalia Gutman’s Kreuth, Rudolf Serkin’s Marlboro, András Schiff’s Mondsee, Vicenza and Ittingen Festivals as well as at Kuhmo, Prussia Cove and Casals Festival in Prades.

Radovan Vlatković has participated in the first performances of works by Elliott Carter, Sofia Gubaidulina, Heinz Holliger and Krzysztof Penderecki and by several Croatian composers who wrote concertos for him.

Radovan Vlatković has received the German Critics’ Award for several of his discs. His numerous recordings include Mozart and Strauss Concertos with the English Chamber Orchestra and Jeffrey Tate, works by Saint-Saens with the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris and Jean-Jacques Kantorow, the Britten Serenade for tenor, horn and strings with Neil Jenkins and the Oriol Ensemble in Berlin, Concertos for two horns by Leopold Mozart and Fasch with Hermann Baumann and Academy of St Martin in the Fields and Iona Brown. More recordings featuring chamber were released by EMI, DECCA, Philips, Deutsche Grammophon, Teldec, Dabringhaus & Grimm an Denon labels.
Radovan Vlatković plays a full double horn Model 20 M by Paxman of London.