PETER
WILIAMS : Serbian
virtuoso pianist, Sonja Radojkovic, making her first New
Zealand tour, will present a concert
in the Napier Municipal Teatre, at 7.30 pm, on Tuesday,
August 26, as well as recitals in Plamerston North, Hamilton
and Masterton.
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MARGARET
CHRISTENSEN :
Out of the new Yugoslavia, direct from Belgrade, there
arrived pianist Sonja Radojkovic, on a short
touroff smaller North Islands centres. Thanks to the stron
promotional effort of Howard Smith, Radojkovic came and
conquered a large audince at the Wesleywing of Aratoi.
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VISITING
SERBIAN PIANIST CAPATIVATED OTAKI :
Otaki's All Saints Church was filled capacity to hear
Serbian concert pianist Sonja Radojkovic recently. Ms Radojkovic, from Belgrade, was staying briefly
in Otaki before beginning a month long concert
tour of New Zealand, her NZ manager Jamie Bull, had arranged
for her to use the piano at All Saints
to practise on and the offer of the concert came from
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FROM
BACH TO BETHOVEN AT THE GALLERY:
Otaki's All Saints Church was filled capacity to hear
Serbian concert pianist Sonja Radojkovic recently. Ms Radojkovic, from Belgrade, was staying briefly
in Otaki before beginning a month long concert
tour of New Zealand, her NZ manager Jamie Bull, had arranged
for her to use the piano at All Saints
to practise on and the offer of the concert came from
this. See more >>
CRITICS :
"Sonja
Radojkovich is a pianist who unites the most beautiful qualites:
a volcano temperament and a tender Slav soul" Evgeniy Yakovlevich Liberman
"Sonja Radojkovich's
dedication to music is a complete one . In all her apperances
she approches music with an open heart and great investigating
verve. All her interpretations have one common dimension: elasticity
of her music, vividness, stong will, complete sicerty. Her command
of piano language and her erudition enable her to undertake
the most demanding musical tasks. Harmonious nature of her musical
personality and rich, outstanding abilities for piano playing
speak of great potentials of this artist." Arbo Valdma
"To my knowledge,
a very small number of our students succeseed to be admitted
to the post-graduated studies at "Tchaikovsky", and what is
more, to complete them". Stanojlo Rajicic
" Her appearances show her uncommon erudition,
technical skill nearing musical works, both in piano and orchestra
literature. Her uotstanding exuberant temperament marks a new
sensibility and a new era dynamism. With diplomas from the best
schools, with her talent, erudition and her brilliant knowledge
of piano technique Sonja Radojkovich is a new force in our music
life." Composer Slobodan Atanackovic
Sonja Radojkovich
is an artist who includes into her repertoire most famous works
of piano literature of all time periods. However, she does not
forget compozers of her own native country. With outstanding
efforts, she present even the most difficult works of Yugoslavian
composers, showing in that area her affinity toward good music
which she interprets with the depth that can come only from
the heart.
Sonja Radojkovic is hardworking trustworthy artist who can be
counted on, devoted to her calling, and loyal to her work with
her whole being. Aleksandra Ivanovich, prof. ord.
Faculty of Music, chair man for voice
Sonja
Radojkovich is a piano player who has in her piano opus a
number of major works of piano literature. She consolidates
into her repertoire compositions of her native country' sauthors,
often those compositions which may be quite difficult and
demanding.She is thorough in her work, hardworking, serious,
and devoted almost in an ascetic way. Sonja Radojkovich is
always moving upward, searching for optimal solutions in regard
to her style, form, and especially the message of the work
which she is performing.As a person, Sonja Radojkovich is
very friendly, outgoing, honest, and courageous individual.
I am happy to be among her frends. Olivera Djurdjevich, prof. ord.
Faculty of Music, pianis
Admiring much her
play, I wrote Seven Hippopotamic Studies for piano, merely
to show what a modern tehnic of piano playing can obtain after
the grand studies from Chopin, Liszt and Debussy, and Sonja
performed them with inexhaustible verve, rich in colour and
with a brilliant technic. So I decided to dedicate to her
my Piano Concerto, full with technical madnesses and varying
constantly the moods, and the performance will be the 28.
of January in 2000 with the Philharmony of Belgrade.
I see her in the future as an outstanding pianist in Europa
perhaps also in the World ( the latter, ay be regarded as
an exageration of a benevolent admirator ), and with those
words my valedictory is at its end. Dusan Kostic,
prof. ord.
The composer
could not make a happiest choice for his interpret then in
the person of Ms. Sonja Radojkovich, a very capable pianist
from Belgrad - Russian school. In the field of virtuosity
she is equal to the enormous task with which Kostich bestowed
his compositians, and also she is a fine and sensible feeling
pianist witch enables her to bring out all of thelyrics witch
is hidden behind the text. The world will hear one day about
her…
The Concerto is dedicated to her, and the Sonata is written
for and dedicated to her. Dusan Kostic, prof. ord.
Composer
