Ivan Graziani was born in Rijeka, Croatia, in 1997. As a 6-year-old, he received his first violin lessons, first at the music school "Ivan Matetic Ronjgov" of his native town, then with Prof. Leonid Sorokov. From 2010 to 2013, he attended the class for highly gifted young musicians at the University for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna where he was admitted to the preparatory class in late 2013.
In 2010, 2012 and 2014, Ivan was first prize-winner at the Croatian National Music Competition. Concerts and recitals saw him in Rijeka, Zagreb, Osijek, Šibenik, Dubrovnik and St. Pölten.

     September 2014