"Dad, that is Maksim Mrvica," my sleepy daughter said just now, as she woke up and came over to give me a morning kiss. "He is really cool."
And if I was going to write an article about of the event highlights of the summer on Hvar before she woke up, her enthusiasm as a young pianist gives me all the more reason.
The man is a sensation. Check him out on a recent tour of Asia in the video below.
Or check him out in person at the summer theatre in Stari Grad on July 12:
"Maksim Mrvica most famous piano virtuoso and best selling crossover pianist worldwide, after the tour in Czech Republic, Russia, China and South Korea is coming back to Croatia and Slovenia again where he is going to perform a series of concerts.
In May he started a promotion of his new album "Mezzo e Mezzo" in Croatia and performing on the Adriatic Coast he begins a new program called "Adriatic tour" on which playing with his British band as he is playing on great stages worldwide, he will perform a certain retrospection of his ten published albums and also he will present his new album "Mezzo e Mezzo".
Within the Adriatic tour, on 12th of July Maksim is performing on the Summer stage in Stari Grad on the Island of Hvar."
More info in Croatian:
Nakon netom završene turneje u Kini i
Južnoj Koreji, naš najpoznatiji klavirski
virtuoz i najprodavaniji svjetski
crossover pijanist Maksim Mrvica
ponovno se vraća u Hrvatsku gdje će
održati seriju koncerata.
Na Adriatic turneji koja obuhvaća pet
gradova na spektakularnim lokacijama -
Opatija (10.7., Ljetna pozornica),
Šibenik (14.7., Tvrđava sv. Mihovila),
Trogir (15.7., Kula Kamerlengo),
Portorož (17.7., Avdorij) nalazi se i Stari
Grad gdje će Maksim nastupati 12.
srpnja na Ljetnoj pozornici.
Karte za hvarski koncert kreću u
prodaju 01.srpnja po cijeni od 200, 160
i 140 kuna, a kupnja je moguća na
prodajnim mjestima eventima.hr
(http://www.eventim.hr/hr/ulaznice/m
aksim-mrvica-hvar-ljetna-pozornicastari-grad-401424/event.html),
kioscima Tiska, Tisak Medije, TZ Stari
Grad Hvar i Pelegrini Tours Hvar.
U pratnji svog britanskog benda
Maksim će svirati svojevrsnu
retrospektivu dosadašnjih deset
objavljenih albuma i predstaviti
najnoviji album „Mezzo e Mezzo“ –
posebnost ovog albuma je što je dio
snimljen u klasičnom stilu, a dio
zauzimaju već prepoznatljive
Maksimove moderne obrade.
Maksim Mrvica prodao višemilijunske
naklade svih svojih albuma i u
šezdesetak zemalja širom svijeta
pojavljuje se među top klasičnim i
crossover glazbenicima. Velikim
talentom, impresivnim nastupom i
svojim upečatljivim stylingom i
imidžem, kao i crossover žanrom,
Maksim Mrvica je klasiku uspio približiti
mlađim generacijama te je danas
podjednako miljenik svih uzrasta
publike.
