Mattias Antonio Glavinic, a seventeen-year-old Italian-Croatian, has been attending the “Young Talents” course at the “Benedetto Marcello” Conservatory in Venice for five years, in the class of Prof. Gianluigi Polli. He attended the specialization courses of Maestro Roberto Plano at the Academy of Pinerolo. He is a scholarship holder of the Liechtenstein Academy of Music and participates in the intensive weeks and activities of the academy. Mattias has won more than thirty absolute first prizes in national and international competitions. He is the overall winner of the Steinway Piano Competition for Young Talents 2025. He represented Italy at the Steinway International Festival “Young Talents in Concert” performing in the prestigious “Laeiszhalle” concert hall in Hamburg. He is the winner of the International Piano and Orchestra Competition “Città di Cantù” Junior and ranked second in the 2026 Senior edition. He has won the “Giol Prize” five times, the competition that rewards the most deserving and talented students of the conservatory. In 2017 he was chosen among the seven pianists that the Pianofriends Association selected for Wunderkinder, a concert dedicated to young pianists in the context 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 the orchestra. He has given recitals at the “Galuppi Festival” at the Sale Apolinee of the Teatro La Fenice, at the Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest and at the Aula Magna of the Central University Library “Mihai Eminescu” in Iasi, Romania, for the Tucarman Popa Cultural Association, at the “Future Generations” Festival in Treviso for the Cassamarca Foundation, at the “Music Festival of the Nations” in the Marcello Theater in Rome, at the “Corti, Chiese e Cortili” Festival in Bologna, at the “Risonanze” Festival in Malborghetto – Valbruna, at the “Rovinj Art & More” Festival in Croatia, at 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 “A river of notes” in Polcenigo and at the Miramare Castle in Trieste, to the music festival “Senza mani – Aspettando Piano FVG”, to the music festival “Istrian Echoes” in the Community of Italians in Rovinj (Croatia), by the “Amici della musica Giorgio Vianello” in Bassano del Grappa and at the “Arena Musicae” festival in Tarvisio. He has also performed at the “Antonio Belloni” Theater in Barlassina, at the “Teatro degli Industri” in Grosseto, at the Miela Theater in Trieste and in other theaters in Italy and abroad. He has performed twice at the Malibran Theater in Venice with the Orchestra of the La Fenice Theater, performing the Concerto No.2 by F. Chopin and the Concerto No.3 by S. Prokofiev. He has also performed with the Antonio Vivaldi Orchestra of Sondrio, with the Junior Symphony Orchestra of Milan, 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 b.b. Opera Orchestra of Zagreb (Croatia). In 2024 and 2025 he participated in the Masterclass of high specialization in piano and winds organized by the Andrea Bocelli Foundation in collaboration with the “Piano Friends” association, performing in the Sferisterio Arena at the Macerata Opera Festival. He attended masterclasses held by the Maestros: Vincenzo Balzani, Roberto Plano, Ruben Dalibaltayan, Yuri Bogdanov and Hinko Haas.
He has been student of Fondazione Accademia di Musica since 2026.
