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Biljana Urban
12+ albums
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Biljana Urban received her Ph.D. in Music (Piano Performance) summa cum laude from the Academy of Music in Zagreb. She went on to study at the École Normale de Musique in Paris, settling in the city in 1983. Since 1991 she has been based in Amsterdam and has Dutch nationality. She has performed in renowned international concert halls, including the Fresno Concert Hall, California for the Philip Lorentz Memorial concert series. She has taken part in international music festivals, including the Dubrovnik Summer Festival, the Festival of Flanders and the Orlando Festival in The Netherlands. As a chamber musician she has performed with soloists of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Monnaie Orchestra, Brussels, and the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Her recitals have been broadcast by France Musique, Radio 4 in The Netherlands, Radio Klara in Belgium, by radio and television companies in Croatia and Slovenia, and by Valley Public Radio in the United States. She has taught in Paris at the École Supérieure César Franck and the Conservatoire de Neuilly, and was artist-in-residence at California State University in Fresno in 2012; the following year she was appointed associate professor at the University of Arts in Osijek, Croatia. In 2010 Biljana Urban released an acclaimed recording on Naxos [9.70120] of the piano works of her grandfather Jan Urban. The first album of her Voříšek Complete Works for Piano, released in September 2014 on the Grand Piano label, was recognised as
top songs
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Nocturne, "Evening Song"
252Piano Sonata in B-Flat Minor, Op. 20, "Quasi una fantasia": III. Finale: Allegro con brio
936 Impromptus, Op. 7: No. 4 in A Major
74Eclogue in C Major
65Stammbuchblatt in A Major
56Le plaisir, Op. 4
5712 Rhapsodies, Op. 1: No. 2 in E Major: Allegro
4812 Rhapsodies, Op. 1: No. 1 in C-Sharp Minor: Allegro
4912 Rhapsodies, Op. 1: No. 5 in F Minor: Allegro
410Ritournelle, Op. 2, No. 2bis
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Urban: Piano Album
Schmitt: Works for Piano
Voříšek: Complete Works for Piano, Vol. 3
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Urban, J.: Piano Album
Voříšek: Complete Works for Piano, Vol. 2
Voříšek: Complete Works for Piano, Vol. 1
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The Key Collection: 3 Centuries of Rare Keyboard Gems
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[GP671] [IL-Mar2025] VORISEK, J.H.; Piano Works (Complete)
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Voříšek: 6 Impromptus, Fantasie & Piano Sonata
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The Key Collection: 3 Centuries Of Rare Keyboard Gems [Disc 1]
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Solitude: Piano Works by Florent Schmitt
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