The ideal combination of intellect, technique and passion, refinement of touch, perfect technique, concentration and control, exceptional dynamic potential, original ideas and unconventional interpretations« give Ratimir Martinović, according by the critics’ words, one of the leading places among pianists of his generation.
Born in Kotor, he graduated in 1999 from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad where he studied with Kemal Gekić, and he received his Masters degree in 2002, performing demanding solo recitals on both occasions.
He attended advanced studies with well-known pedagogues and pianists such as Ivo Pogorelich, Karl-Heinz Kammerling, Hiroko Nakamura, Jacques Rouvier, Arie Vardi, Sergio Perticaroli and many others.
Since the age of twelve he has played in over six hundred recitals, chamber music concerts as well as with orchestra in almost all European countries, United States, Mexico, Canada, Argentina, China, Japan and Thailand. He has played in New York, Rome, London, Paris, Prague, Belgrade, Shanghai, Taipei, Tokyo, Beijing, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Lisbon, Buenos Aires, Barcelona, Salzburg, Helsinki, and elsewhere. He is invited regularly to leading music festivals.
Ratimir Martinović has played as a soloist with over 60 symphony and chamber orchestras, collaborating with conductors such as Alexandar Rahbari, Andres Mustonen, Emil Tabakov, Peter Sundkvist, David Porceline, William Noll, Aleksandar Ostrovsky, and many others. Martinović is the founder and member of KotorArt Trio, together with violinist Roman Simović and clarinetist Aleksandar Tasić.
He is the winner of many domestic and international awards and tributes.
His recording activity has so far produced two CDs and numerous recordings for TV and Radio stations all over the world.
Ratimir Martinović is one of the founders of International Festival Kotor Art and Director of its music program called Don Branko’s Music Days.
Martinović is also active in pedagogy as a piano professor at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad.

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