18th International Festival “Ars vivendi clavicembalum” – DUŠAN TOROMAN

Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)
Suite in d minor HWV 428 (Suites de Pieces pour le Clavecin, London 1720)
Prelude – Allegro – Allemande – Courante – Air – Presto

Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
Sonata in b minor, F.48
Sonata in D major F.436

Georg Friedrich Händel / William Babell (1690-1723)
Vo’ far guerra in the opera of Rinaldo (Suits of the most Celebrated Lessons, London 1717)

Biography:
Dušan Toroman received a graduate degree in piano performance in his native Serbia. An interest in historical keyboard instruments brought him to Italy, where he studied fortepiano with Stefano Fiuzzi at the Imola Piano Academy and harpsichord with Maria Luisa Baldassari at the Conservatory “Gioacchino Rossini” in Pesaro. For many years he enjoyed the guidance of musicologist and harpsichordist Emilia Fadini, while also attending masterclasses of musicians such as Malcolm Bilson, Enrico Baiano, Ottavio Dantone, Sergio Ciomei… Winner of the Broadwood Horniman Harpsichord Competition (London), Tournoi International de Musique (Paris) and Concorso Internazionale Wanda Landowska (Ruvo di Puglia), Dušan maintains a lively concert activity that has brought him to France, England, Italy, Romania, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia… Due to his long-standing interest in vocal music, he has worked extensively as an accompanist and currently holds a position at the singing department of the Faculty of Arts in Kragujevac. He also works for the Belgrade Baroque Academy, the Austrian Baroque Academy and the Baroque Atelier of Marijana Mijanović.