Hornist Radovan Vlatkovic is one of the world's most prominent players of his instrument, with an international career as a concerto soloist, chamber and solo player, and educator. He has often championed contemporary music.
Vlatkovic was born on January 29, 1962, in Zagreb, then in Yugoslavia. His family spent two years in the U.S. when he was a child, and at six he took his first horn lesson there. Back home in Zagreb, he studied at the city's Academy of Music, and he went on for further studies at the Northwest German Academy of Music in Detmold. Prizes at competitions in ...