| Ivana Marija Vidović as a jury member of the famous Maurice Moszkowski competition In the Polish city of Kielce, for the eleventh time an international competition named after one of the most famous composers, pianists and pedagogues born in Poland (Wroclaw, 1854) Maurice Moritz Moszkowski was held last week. Everyone who has learned, studied or teaches the piano knows very well this great composer who dedicated most of his life to the piano, bravura, virtuosity, etudes, passages. However, his oeuvre is much richer than that what Ivana Marija Vidović, a Croatian pianist and writer, could witness personaly as she has increasingly ranked among the outstanding pedagogues in the world of music in both concert and jury expertise during last few years. The quintet of the great Polish composers Chopin -€“ Szymanowsky / Moszkowski – Paderewski – Penderecki is truly like the crown of their great oeuvre in the history of music. We all know that Poland is the cradle of the world’s most famous and impressive piano competition, the Chopin competition in Warsaw. However, a strong tradition is also evident in the competitions that celebrate the greats mentioned above. In addition to Vidović and the president of the jury, Mirosław Herbowski, a professor at the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy in Krakow, the jury also included the French pianist and pedagogue Michel Bourdoncle, one of the most prominent Polish pedagogues and pianists Andrzej Tatarski, and the Ukrainian professor and pianist from Lviv, Ludmiła Zakopets. The bond between Poland and Dubrovnik has been strong since ancient times, since the Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra’s beginning, since Ludomir Rogowski and his passion for our pearly city Dubrovnik. This bond is now confirmed by Vidović with her frenetic statement after her return home:
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