Helena Vidović, prof.
Helena Vidović was born on December 9, 1978 in Zagreb. At the same time as elementary school and high school, she attended the Vatroslav Lisinski School of Music, where she graduated in the spring of 1995 in the class of prof. Maje Žepić. Before the entrance exam at the Academy of Music, she held an all-night concert in the hall of the History Museum in Zagreb.
In the same year, she enrolled in piano studies at the Academy of Music in Zagreb with associate professor Jakše Zlatara, and two years later at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana (art major) in the class of music. prof. Dubravka Tomšič Srebotnjak. During her studies, she actively participated in the seminars of eminent pianists and pedagogues such as prof. Mirta Herrera and Prof. Hiroko Nakamura, regularly performed at pianist's reviews, held another solo concert in the hall of the Croatian Music Institute in Zagreb, and was a beneficiary of the City of Zagreb Scholarship for two years.
She graduated from both academies with excellent results (in Zagreb in 2000, in Ljubljana in 2001), and then spent a year training with prof. Rudolf Kehrer in Zurich and Vienna. In that period, she made her first appearance on Croatian Radio.
At the end of 2002, at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana, she enrolled in postgraduate studies with the topic "Virtuoso Piano Works" under the mentorship of ed. prof. Dubravke Tomšič Srebotnjak, which ended with a recital in the auditorium of the University of Ljubljana on April 25, 2007.
She held numerous concerts in Ljubljana, Zagreb, Varaždin, Šibenik, Sisak, Vinkovci and other Croatian cities, and in the 2008/2009 season. she performed at the Darko Lukić Tribune in the Small Hall of Vatroslav Lisinski. Her repertoire includes more technically demanding pieces from different stylistic periods with an emphasis on romanticism and the 20th century.