Vladimir Valjarevic
Mannes College (The New School for Music)
Mason Gross School of the Arts (Rutgers University)
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Mason Gross School of the Arts (Rutgers University)
www.vladimirvaljarevic.com/about.html

Valjarevic teaches piano at Mannes School of Music (College, Prep) and Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, and piano literature and pedagogy at Mannes. He was the teaching assistant to Pavlina Dokovska for over a decade and still continues close collaboration with her in pedagogy and performance. His festival affiliations include Beijing International Music Festival and Academy in China, Round Top in Texas, International Institute for Young Musicians in Kansas. He has given piano masterclasses and lectures on piano pedagogy in the US and China, including a presentation at the Music China World Fair in Shanghai.
Valjarevic studied in his native Bosnia, at Belgrade Conservatory (Serbia), Mannes School of Music (BM & MM), Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University (DMA) and at Geneva Conservatory in Switzerland, where he was a Fulbright Scholar. His primary piano instructors are Pavlina Dokovska, Pascal Devoyon, Susan Starr and Planinka Jurisic-Atic. While in Geneva, he received clavichord lessons from Nicole Hostettler at the Centre de Musique Ancienne. Festivals include IMS Prussia Cove in England, the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau, France, the Apeldoorn Festival in the Netherlands, the International Festival-Institute at Round Top in Texas, the International Keyboard Institute and the Beethoven Institute in New York, Kneisel Hall in Maine