Maksim Mrvica piano sheet music of popular songs

Maksim Mrvica (Croatian pronunciation: [mâksim mr̩̂ʋitsa]; born May 3, 1975) is a Croatian pianist. He plays classical crossover music. Mrvica was born in Šibenik, Croatia. He took piano lessons at the age of nine. Three years later he gave his first concert performance of Haydn's Piano Concerto in C major. When war broke out in 1991, both Mrvica and his professor were determined that this would not disrupt his music studies. In spite of the war and surrounding turbulence, Mrvica entered in, and won, his first major competition in Zagreb in 1993. Mrvica went on to study at the Music Academy in Zagreb where he spent five years under Professor Vladimir Krpan, who himself was a pupil of Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli.