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Marin Maras – violin

Born in 1990 in Dubrovnik, where he started his elementary musical education at the School of art «Luka Sorkočević». At the age of 15 he become a full-time student at Music Academy in Zagreb in the class of prof. Leonid Sorokow (who provides Marin with constant music education). Parallel with the Academy, Marin is student at Music school «Vatroslav Lisinski» in Zagreb. He participated and won numerous prizes at many state and international competitions, from which we can state prizes in 2006. – special award at International competition «Rudolf Matz», first award at Regional competition in Velika Gorica, second award at state competition in Varaždin (won in category of I and II year students), third award at International string festival in Moscow, third award on International competition «Etide i skale 2007.» As his biggest success he won first prize in International violin competition in Novosibirsk, Russia, this May. He played as a soloist in 4 concerts with Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra and participated in a lot of Croatian and international courses with respected music teachers. Within competitions, tours and courses he performed in Dubrovnik, Zagreb, Split, Rijeka, Ljubljana, Klagenfurt, Salzburg, Venice, Gorizia, Lisbon and Moscow.

In January he performed his first recital in «Matica Hrvatska» in Zagreb, during the cycles «Young musicians in Matica» and also played recital in June in Rector"s palace in Dubrovnik, cycles «Musica Eterna».