Petar Obradović
Composer
Trumpet player and composer PETAR OBRADOVIĆ (b. 1972, Dubrovnik) completed his secondary music education at the Luka Sorkočević Art School in his hometown of Dubrovnik, in the class of his father, Niko (Nino) Obradović. He graduated in 1994 from the Academy of Music in Ljubljana in the class of Anton Grčar and became the first trumpet of the Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra in 1995. He became the solo trumpeter at the Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra in Zagreb in the same year, and he remains in that position today. As a soloist, Obradović has performed with the Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra, the Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, the Zagreb Philharmonic, the Mostar Symphony Orchestra, the Sorkočević Quartet, and the Dubrovnik String Quartet. In 2000, the publishing company Cantus released his first album featuring compositions by Šulek, Detoni, Tarbuk, and Obradović. He also recorded Vivaldi’s Concert for Two Trumpets and Orchestra in C major with the Zagreb Philharmonic, which was released on another album. In 2006, Cantus published a CD featuring works by Papandopulo, Berdović, Bjelinski, Kuljerić, and Obradović, and in 2009, an album containing compositions by Italian Baroque composers Franceschini and Vivaldi, along with compositions by Croatian pre-classical composers Bajamonti and Stratik. Performances of his works have also been featured on numerous albums by other musicians. The publishing house ALRY Publications (Seattle, USA) has published sheet music for four of his compositions, while Martin Schmid (Nagold, Germany) has published 17 of his works in the “Collection Petar Obradovic” edition. Obradović regularly records music for the Croatian Radio 26 and Television permanent recording archive, with over 250 minutes of original music recorded to date.
He has been a member of the Croatian Composers’ Society since 1995. In addition to composing solo, chamber, and orchestral works, he is also the author of film music and stage music for Teatar Lero productions, performed at the Split Summer Festival and the Dubrovnik Summer Festival. He also writes short pieces for music school students. Throughout his artistic career, he has collaborated with many musicians as both a composer and a performer. In 2019, he received the Porin Music Award in the category of Best Classical Composition for his Bird Concerto for saxophone and orchestra, premiered at the 68th Dubrovnik Summer Festival. In 2020, he was awarded the Orlando Award by Croatian Radio and Television for the most outstanding performance in the music program of the 71st Dubrovnik Summer Festival. In the 2022/23 season, he was the resident composer for the Croatian Radio and Television, for whose ensembles (Tambura Orchestra and Choir) he wrote two compositions.