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Conducting has always been, for Ivo Piscevic, one of the aspects that allows him the most to express both his musical temperament as well as his desire to share music with others.
His path as a conductor, inseparable from other aspects of his musical development which are piano playing and his activity as korrepetitor, started effectively in 2013 when studying under the leadership of Carlo Jans, professor at the Conservatory of Luxembourg.
He was forced In 2016 to quit his studies as family decisions went on the way.
In 2019, he created the "All United Concert", a concert that reassembled professional musicians from all over Belgium with many different cultural backgrounds. Thanks to the efforts and dedication of all of the musicians involved, and despite the regulation imposed by the sanitary situation at that time that didn't allow him to organise a live concert, he managed to create a digital version of it, that's widely available on his YouTube channel.
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As a pianist, Ivo started to study at the age of 9 with his parents. He then graduated in 2013 from the Conservatory of Luxembourg with Distinction
Shortly after, his young-age love for singing and everything related to vocal arts as well as his passion for sharing music with others led him to begin his journey as accompanist / collaborative pianist by working with the singing classes of the Royal Conservatory of Brussels.
Since then, his passion for working with singers as well as his eagerness to learn more about the Voice has engendered the dedication to becoming a full time opera conductor and pianist he's been demonstrating since his studies in the Brussels' Conservatory.
In 2020, he graduated from the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp, where he currently lives.
Amongst his teachers are James Alexander, Giulio Zappa, Luca Gorla and Carmen Santoro.
As a vocal coach / répétiteur, Ivo has studied in Belgium (Royal Conservatory of Antwerp), Switzerland (Haute École de Musique de Genève), as well as in Italy (Accademia del Belcanto Rodolfo Celletti).
He has worked as well in many known places for opera development such as the Haute École de Musique de Genève (principal vocal coach for the academic year 2020-2021 on the site of Neuchâtel), the Académies de Pâques du Grand Nancy in Vincennes, Festival della Valle d'Itria, Martina Franca, Italy, as well as for numerous Masterclasses in France and in Belgium.
He plays regularly concerts in duo with his partner, the Russian contralto Ekaterina Romanova; together, they held a series of ongoing classical music video recordings, both on YouTube and on Facebook, supported and motivated by their common desire to promote and to share classical music to a wider audience, an idea that initiated at the crest of the "lockdown" period, in 2019.
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Ivo Piscevic considers that music writing is the main energy that results from his passion to share music.
Ivo studied composition at the Conservatory of Luxembourg, where he took classes of counterpoint and harmony.
The inspiration of Ivo Piscevic's compositions reaches deeply into the genres that characterized western music up till the end of twentieth century; as such, one can find elements of Classical, Romantic, as well as of Jazz in the music that he writes, in combination with some aspects of styles that are closely related to the use of Latin Percussion.
Ivo Piscevic started to study Baroque music writing at the Conservatory of Luxembourg, as part of a broader composition formation that he followed there.
After having studied, in particular, Counterpoint and Fuga, he decided to enter at the École Normale de Paris Alfred Cortot, where he graduated with a diploma of Baroque Counterpoint in 2014.
Some of his works are available on Spotify, of which you can find the link below :