Photo by Alexandra Ligda
Renata Penezić is one of the most prominent Croatian music
artists. She graduated in 1993 at the Music Academy in
Ljubljana (Slovenia) in the class of Prof. Fedja Rupel. She
has won several prizes at state competitions in Croatia and
Slovenia. Already as the third student she became the solo
flutist of the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, which gave
her an opportunity to work with numerous famous Croatian
and international artists. As a recipient of German
scholarship Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)
she completed the post-graduate studies at the prestigious
Hochschule für Musik in Cologne in the class of the
renowned soloist and pedagogue Prof. Andras Adorjan. At
this institution she also studied the transverse flute and
the recorder. In 1997 she received her Master of Arts
diploma with the highest grade. She attended master-courses
in Great Britain and France (with Trevor Wye, Y. P. Artaud
and A. Marion) and also those for early music and baroque
ornamentation (with G. Höller).
The repertoire of Renata Penezić is very wide and it
embraces music from renaissance to the most contemporary
compositions of solo, chamber, and orchestral repertoire.
Beside being the solo flutist of the Zagreb Philharmonic,
she has developed a rich chamber music activity playing
with the well known Croatian and international artists and
ensembles such as sopranos Nancy Argenta and Lidija Horvat
– Dunjko, bariton Leo Nucci, violinists Chaterine
Mackintosh, Anđelko Krpan and Marija Čepulić, guitarist
Darko Petrinjak, oboist Branko Mihanović, bassoon player
Knut Sonstevold, tuba player Krunoslav Babić, harpist
Nicoletta Sanzin, harpsichordist Višnja Mažuran, pianist
Katarina Krpan, Zagreb String Quartet, Zagreb Soloists,
Croatian Baroque Ensemble, Varaždin Chamber Orchestra, and
ensemble Musica Viva. Renata Penezić performed at the
reputable international festivals in Croatia (Dubrovnik
Summer Festival, Split Summer Festival, Varaždin Baroque
Festival, etc.). She has made several CD-s and one of them
(The Christmas Concert) won the Croatian annual award Porin
in 2006. She regularly records for the Croatian Radio. Some
of the leading Croatian composers wrote and dedicated to
her their flute compositions.
Along with her extensive performing career, Renata Penezić
also successfully teaches at the Music Academy in Zagreb.
So far her students have won first prizes at several
competitions. She is regularly giving flute and chamber
music master-classes in Croatia and Slovenia and has been a
member of the jury at various competitions in Croatia and
abroad.
