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Dubravka Tomšič Srebotnjak
Slovenian pianist and music teacher (born 1940)
Dubravka Tomšič Srebotnjak (born 7 February 1940 in Dubrovnik, Croatia, Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is a Slovenianpianist and music teacher.
Dubravka tomsic biography definition
Early life
Tomsic received private lessons at a very young age and continued with education at the Music High School in Ljubljana and later at the Slovene Academy of Music under professor Zora Zarnik. Following the advice of concert pianist Claudio Arrau, she went to the United States at age 12 and in 1957 graduated from Juilliard School of Music in New York.
Her teachers were Katherine Bacon and Alexander Uninsky. Arthur Rubinstein heard her New York Town Hall recital and invited her to study with him privately in the late 1950s. Tomšič became one of Rubinstein's protégées.[1]
Career
Tomsic has been teaching piano at the Slovene Academy of music in Ljubljana since 1967.
She has had a wide ranging concert career and is often invited to judge piano c