Croatian born pianist Maksim Mrvica is the biggest selling Classical – Crossover pianist in the world. Maksim showed early promise, finishing his education at the «Ferenz Liszt Academy of Music» in Budapest and «Alexander Skrjabin Conservatioire» in Paris after already having won first prize in a National Competition in Croatia as well as first prize at Rubinstein Piano Competition in.

Contents • • • • • • • Biography [ ] Mrvica was born in, Croatia. He took piano lessons at the age of nine. Three years later he gave his first concert performance of 's Piano Concerto in C major. Korporativ scenka treh bogatirej. When war broke out in 1991, both Mrvica and his professor were determined that this would not disrupt his music studies.

In spite of the war and surrounding turbulence, Mrvica entered in, and won, his first major competition in in 1993. Mrvica went on to study at the where he spent five years under Professor, who himself was a pupil of. He then spent a year at the in Budapest and during this year he won first prize at the International Piano Competition.

In 2000, he moved to Paris to study with and gained first prize in the Piano Competition in 2001. International appeal [ ] Mrvica was spotted by, who composed several tracks for the crossover string quartet,, and it was Tonči who put Mrvica in touch with British Mel Bush. Classics was also interested in Mrvica and soon a new album was underway. This album was, which gave a new spin to compositions. Since its release in 2003 it has been successful, in Asia, where it has achieved Gold status in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and China, Platinum in Taiwan and Croatia and Double Platinum in Hong Kong. It was also in the number 1 slot in the HMV international pop chart in Hong Kong for twelve consecutive weeks. Under Mel Bush's management, Mrvica's performances generally take place against a backdrop of special lighting, stage and video effects.

Mrvica's piece 'Exodus' was used as the floor music of Russian artistic gymnast in the. Adaptations and arrangements [ ]. This section of a does not any. Please help by adding. Contentious material about living people that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately.

Find sources: – ( December 2017) () There is a Chinese lyrical version added to the non-lyrical song of Maksim Mrvica's 'Claudine'. This musical piece was sung and written by singer from Hong Kong. According to Boxup.com, Edmond was so captivated by Maksim's performance of 'Claudine' that he asked Maksim's permission to do a lyrical version in Cantonese. Soon after in 2004, their collaboration produced the bittersweet ballad called 'Xin Wang Ai' ('Trust Hope Love'). Discography [ ] Albums [ ] • 1999 – (Lisinski Studios) • 2003 – (EMI) • 2004 – (EMI) • 2005 – (EMI) • 2006 – (EMI) • 2007 – (MBO) • 2008 – Pure II (MBO) • 2008 – (EMI) • 2010 – Appassionata (Universal) • 2012 – (Universal) • 2014 – Mezzo e Mezzo (Universal) • 2015 – (Universal) • 2018 – New Silk Road (MBO) References [ ].

While looking for video presentations of classical music which in later years became popularised by song or TV ads, I stumbled across a pianist new to me. Maksim Mrvica.

He was born in Croatia and now divides his time between Croatia and London, when not on tour. What I noticed from many of the videos of his performances available on YouTube: he immediately reminded me of Adam Lambert ( below, right). One commenter had also noticed this and remarked that he's 'the Adam Lambert of classical music'. That sent me searching for his birth data.