Mattias Antonio Glavinic

A sixteen-year-old Italian-Croatian, he has been attending the “Giovani Talenti” course at the “Benedetto Marcello” Conservatory in Venice for four years, in the class of Prof. Gianluigi Polli.
He attends Maestro Roberto Plano's masterclasses at the Academy of Pinerolo.
He is a scholarship holder at the Liechtenstein Music Academy and participates in the academy's intensive weeks and activities. He has won more than thirty first prizes in national and international competitions. He is the overall winner of the 2025 Steinway Piano Competition for Young Talents. He represented Italy at the Steinway International Festival “Young Talents in Concert,” performing in the prestigious ‘Laeiszhalle’ concert hall in Hamburg. He has won the “Giol Prize” five times, a competition that rewards the most deserving and talented students at the conservatory.

In 2017, he was chosen among the seven pianists selected by the Pianofriends Association for Wunderkinder, a concert dedicated to young pianists as part of the South Tyrol Festival in the prestigious Gustav Mahler Hall in Dobbiaco, in the presence of the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella. In 2019, he gave his first solo recital and his first concert with an orchestra. He has given recitals at the ‘Festival Galuppi’ in the Sale Apolinee of the Teatro La Fenice, at the Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest for the Tucarman Popa Cultural Association, at the ‘Generazioni Future’ Festival in Treviso for the Casamarca Foundation, at the ‘Festival Musicale delle Nazioni’ in the Teatro Marcello in Rome, at the 'Corti, Chiese e Cortili Festival in Bologna, the Risonanze Festival in Malborghetto - Valbruna, the Rovinj Art & More Festival in Croatia, the concert in honor of Marija Trandafil - Ars e femmina as part of Novi Sad European Capital of Culture 2022 (Serbia), at the music festival “Un fiume di note” in Polcenigo and at the Miramare Castle in Trieste, at the music festival “Senza mani - Aspettando Piano FVG,” at the music festival “Echi istriani” in the Italian Community of Rovinj (Croatia), and by the “Amici della musica Giorgio Vianello” in Bassano del Grappa. He has also performed at the Antonio Belloni Theater in Barlassina, the Teatro degli Industri in Grosseto, the Teatro Miela in Trieste, and other theaters in Italy and abroad. He has performed at the Malibran Theater in Venice with the La Fenice Theater Orchestra, performing Chopin's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2, with the Antonio Vivaldi Orchestra of Sondrio, with the Ferruccio Busoni Orchestra of Trieste, with the Youth Orchestra of Grosseto, with the Ferruccio Benvenuto Busoni Orchestra of Empoli, with the Orchestra of the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory of Music in Venice, with the Mihail Jora Philharmonic Orchestra of Bacau (Romania), and with the Opera b.b. Orchestra of Zagreb (Croatia). In 2024 and 2025, he participated in the advanced masterclass in piano and wind instruments organized by the Andrea Bocelli Foundation in collaboration with the “Piano Friends” association, performing at the Arena Sferisterio at the Macerata Opera Festival.

He attended masterclasses held by maestros Vincenzo Balzani, Roberto Plano, Ruben Dalibaltayan, Yuri Bogdanov, and Hinko Haas.