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What a magic night! On Feb. 1st, my daughter and I joined the Grammy Award ceremony at the Crypto Arena in LA as of 3.00 pm. It was amazing to see so many stars on the red carpet and performing at the ceremony – Justin Biber, Lady Gaga, John Legend, Bruno Mars, Sabrina Carpenter, Post Malone, Bad Bunny and many more… We also immensely enjoyed to be at the Grammy’s after party at the Grammy Museum. It was an unforgettable night!

Dear friends and listeners,
I hope you are all doing well. I would like to invite you to my concert in Paris that will take place on April 15th, on Wednesday, at 21.00 at a beautiful location at the Theatre de I’lle Saint Lois Paul Rey. As this is part of the Piano Revenge Festival, there will be a lot of amazing neoclassical artists and pianists from all around the world. We look forward to seeing you there!

Thank you Merry for your heartfelt interview, beautiful introduction of my work in music business, and for great questions. It was a great pleasure to talking to you. The interview took place on Feb. 17th, 2026, and we talked about storytelling through music, my work with psychology and its influence on my music, the inspiration behind the Intercontinental Music awarded (ICMA) winning piece “Spark”. For the full interview, please visit my Instagram artist page.

Thank you One World Music Radio for broadcasting Serendipity on your beautiful “The Peaceful Piano” program on Feb. 18th! I am honored that you chose my newest single, “Serendipity” among so many amazing neoclassical artists.

So grateful that my dearest friend, Manuela, could join us for our concert in Vienna on Jan. 16th.

Dear Matthew,
it was so great that you could join me on Jan. 16th to play together the concert in Vienna. If we think back, it is so amazing that this was our 4th concert, as we also played together on the island of Brijuni, in Rovinj and in Dubrovnik – three beautiful cities in Croatia. Our concert in Vienna was the very first concert we played together in Austria, and I hope that there will be many more to come.
Both Matthew and I met in 2019 in Croatia and ever since we stayed in touch as friends. It is interesting to note that we are also both voting members at the Recording Academy.
We appreciate so much that you follow us on social media and that you share our music…

My dear friend Alice and the family,
thank you so much for joining us for our concert in Vienna.
I was so happy to see you all and thank you for your support over the year!
Love, Antonija

So happy that my colleague and fellow composer. Angelica, visited Matthew and my concert in Vienna. It was so great to meet you in person, Angelica, as we have know each other via social media. Saah music is so beautiful and often fragile but powerful!

Matthew Mayer and I would like to invite you all to come to our concert in Vienna that will take place on Jan. 16th, 2026 at 7.00 pm in Kaiser Saal in the 7. district in Kaiserstr. 10. We very much look forward to seeing you there soon!

Grateful to be part of the Recording Academy community that takes voting responsibility seriously. I voted in the second round to choose among several nominees per category, my favorite musicians. I cannot wait to see the Grammy Award Ceremony that will take place on Feb. 1st in LA, the USA.

A new single, “Serendipity”, came out on Jan. 16th (2026), published by Dream Relaxation label from Sweden. The composition is a quite, luminous piano piece that celebrates the beauty of happy accidents turned into joy in our lives. I hope that the song will resonate with you and uplift your soul.

It is a great joy to announce that I had a one mil. streams on Spotify for my newest albums and music published in 2025. There were listeners from all over the world – even from 173 courtiers from around the world with the total of 304 thousand listeners, and with almost 54 thousand hours of listening in 2025! At the end of this year, I have got almost 3 mil. of total streams on Spotify.
Thank you so much for listening and sharing my music! Feeling so honored, happy, and grateful to connect through music to so many souls! I am certainly curious what will next year bring…

I would like to share my top 9 songs on Spotify by Nov. 25th. On the image you could find the title of the song, how many streams I have got so far and on which day the song was published.
Thank you so much for listening and sharing!
#neoclassical #pianomusic #spotify #counts

The composition “His Star” is coming out on Dec. 5th, 2025 and will be published by my label Yellow Rose records. It is dedicated to my dear friend Matija Dedic, who quietly left us far too early. He was my role model, the authority, and I miss to hear his new compositions and playing. His Star feels like I talk to him via music. Looking forward to your impressions!

With a great delight I would like to announce that I will be playing a concert in Paris at the Piano Revenge Festival. The festival will take place from April 14th until April 18th at the Theatre de l’le Saint-Louis. My concert will take place on April 15th at 9.00 pm.
I look forward to meeting a lot of amazing contemporary composers and musicians that I acquitted via social media.
So if you are in Paris around those dates in April, please do join us!

Today I was at the Stephansdom Klassik radio in Vienna to have an interview with Gerlinde Wallner. We spoke about my newest album “Heartwarming Christmas Selection” – why I chose these songs, and what motivated me to work on this album. The interview will be broadcasted sometime in Dec. 2026 before the Christmas time!

Today I had a concert at the geriatric home in Rodaun in Vienna. It was truly heartwarming to play a concert to around 50 residents of this beautiful home. I felt that I uplifted the hearts and minds of those who were present today. In the end I also played Christmas songs and most of the audience sang along. I felt emotional before and after the concert. The photography is with the family who are owing this beautiful home for elderly.

My song Better Days got published today via Dream Relaxation label. It is a hope for better days – at least that we create the best out of the given situation. You can find it on all major streaming platforms, including YouTube channel.
It is upbeat and it seeks lyrics to be sung. Anyone interested in writing lyrics for this song?

I just sent out my votes within 16 categories for Recording Academy, deciding on who might get Grammys.

Right away, I received the following email from Recording Academy:

“Hello Antonija, Your First Round GRAMMY ballot has been submitted! Thank you for taking the time to recognize your fellow creators and maintain the integrity of music’s only peer-voted honor. Remember, our community worldwide counts on the expertise of you and your peers to determine the year’s GRAMMY nominees.” 

What an honor and feeling of gratitude!

We need to protect music’s future.

On Sept. 25th was Music Advocacy Day, and over 2,000 of the Recording Academy peers are meeting with their representatives to advocate for your rights as a creator or business professional in music! We need to realize that there is something threatening about a potential influence of AI. We should advocate for and support real creators and live music!

There’s power in numbers, and all of us should, the best way we could, advocate for music!

The newest album, published today by Dream Relaxation in Sweden, performed and arranged by Antonija Pacek, is a gentle start to the Christmas incoming season. “Heartwarming Christmas Selection” brings a set of intimate Christmas carols and songs. Subtle, warming, and quietly festive – start feeling the Christmas energy…

Would you like to warm your heart with some of the most beautiful Christmas songs during this festive season? My album with cherry picked most beautiful and classic Christmas songs will be out on Oct. 10th, 2025 to be published by Dream Relaxation from Sweden (to be available on all major streaming platforms) and will feature songs such as White Christmas, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, Silent Night, O, Christmas Tree, and many other that you could sing along…

Amazing – so exciting, feeling honored and delighted that I won the ICMA Award for my composition Spark in the classical crossover category. I composed this composition  for the theatre drama “Woman Anthem” written by Davor Spisic and directed by Robert Raponja in 2024. Spak was published by Piano and Nature label. The ICMA is a prestigious global music competition that recognizes exceptional artists from across the world and celebrates music as a universal language of unity. Established in 2011 and based in Los Angeles, California, it is dedicated to breaking cultural barriers through music and uplifting as well as recognizing independent artists.

Congratulations to all 2025 winners!

Dear friends and fans, Joy was published today by Dream Relaxation label! “Joy” is a bright and uplifting piano composition. With graceful simplicity, this piano piece tells a story of lightness and gratitude. It is a short journey into the heart of joy itself.

Please share your impressions with me…

For all of my friends and fans that will be near Dubrovnik in the first week of August, I would like to invite you to my concert at St. Nicholas Church on Lopud, Croatia at 9.00 pm on Aug. 8th, 2025!

I look forward to seeing you there

I am one of five finalists for the Intercontinental Music Award in the Classical Crossover category – there are five of us in this category from all over the world. I feel honored and excited about the news!

In June, I got a note that my composition Spark was nominated among 5 other compositions from different parts of the World in a Intercontinental Music Awards competition based in LA, USA. Please do cross your fingers that it wins!

Feeling grateful to Piano and Nature label for publishing “Heartfelt” today. After seeing the musical “Falco” in Vienna, showing the life, ups and downs of his work – his life-story from childhood till Falco’s tragic death. He was very popular Austrian pop singer, whose music I gladly listened to in my teenage days. I was profoundly moved about his story and I composed  this song for him. The melody waves together my emotions about his life, his art, and the tragic accident that took his life way too soon – in his 40s.

I am excited to share with all of you that my newest composition “Eagle” was published by Piano and Nature label on May 9th, 2025. I wrote this composition on the island of Lopud in Croatia, inspired by nature and by listening to masterclasses on Ponta Lopud Jazz Festival in 2024, organized by Thana Alexa and Tilda Bogdanovic. The composition is neoclassical in its nature with elements of soft jazz. It is uplifting.

I look forward to your impressions!

My newest single “Farewell” just came out today on all major streaming platforms, published by Dream Relaxation label.

“Farewell” is a contemporary classical tune, which I composed and recorded. It is dedicated to all of us who lost a loving person too soon. It is my way of telling goodbye to my cousin, who I lost last year.