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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.

Thank you to Dream Relaxation label for publishing my newest single “Crossroad” on April 11th, 2025.

Life often brings us to crossroads, moments where we must choose between different paths, each leading to an uncertain future. These decisions are rarely easy, as they often involve weighting our dreams, fears, new responsibilities, and our passion against one another. The right choice may not always be clear. But in these moments, it is our values, intuition, and courage that guide us, reminding us that whichever path we take, it will shape us and lead us closer to understanding who we truly are and what we are capable of.

The composition is available on all major streaming platforms, including TikTok

Numerous playlists on Spotify, gave great feedback about the composition “Forgotten Hero”

It was a great pleasure to work with a young film maker, Noa Martinet on his short film “My Little Superhero”, that went to Nikon film festival. My dear friend, Fanch Parker did a great sound design and arrangement for my composition “Forgotten Hero” that nicely embellished emotions in the film of the main characters. I feel happy and proud to be part of the team!

To watch the film, click here 

Feeling honored and grateful that OWMR chose “Forgotten Hero” as the best composition in Jan. 2025. This is the second time that I received the award from the radio based in UK.

A huge thanks to Pandora radio in the USA for featuring “Forgotten Hero” immediately after it was published by YRR Records, which is the end of Jan.

My newest single “Forgotten Hero” was published on Jan. 31st by YRR and it is dedicated to Alan Turing. It is a contemporary classical double single composed and recording by me. It features two versions of the track on a grand piano and with a felt piano sound. Forgotten Hero is about the life story of Alan Turing, who was a genius and who managed to shorten the duration of the 2nd World War with his invention of the predecessor of the very first computer. Unfortunately, due to his autism, he had a harsh treatment by his surrounding throughout his life, and got an utterly sadistic/cruel court order due to his homosexuality that ended his life too early.

I felt very happy and honored to play at the National Theater in Osijek before the play “Woman Anthem” in Dec. 2024

I am delighted to announce that my new (seventh) album “Sparks” was published by Yellow Rose Records, and is available on all major streaming platforms as of Oct. 25th, 2024. The album starts with the track “Breeze”, which is uplifting and embraces listeners. “Sparks” is a compilation of different intense feelings that were poured into different musical stories. The album actually celebrates many facets of creativity, coming from life experiences, but also from a theatre play script “Woman Anthem” written by Davor Spisic that inspired several the compositions on this new album.

Enjoy listening and write to me your impressions!

In the summer of 2024, I got an invitation from the Recoding Academy from the USA to become a voting member in order to vote on who gets Grammys. At first, I thought that some kind of spam arrived to my email box. However, I soon found out that several radio stations from the USA and Europe recommended me to the Recording Academy, as I received emails from these radio stations – informing me that they suggested me to the Academy and that they would like to congratulate me for receiving the invitation! It felt surreal, and I was really honored to accept it!

I enjoyed the online onboarding initiatives done by the Academy, where I was able to meet many of my peers from different countries. We had the first phase of voting during early Oct. and we had to listen to a lot of music to make as objective as possible voting – to be able to get the list of nominees.

It is encouraging to see that the Academy pays close attention to the diversity of their voting member! I am proud to be part of that story…

“Sun Will Shine” is about times when we feel down, but we have a hopeful thought that tomorrow it will be better. After rain, sun comes again and it shines on all of us…

On Oct. 4th, 2024 my label YRR from Sweden, published “Sun Will Shine”, and it is available on all streaming platforms

I am delighted to share that BBC radio and the Richard Laurence Piano show broadcasted my composition Awakening, which was super beautifully orchestrated by my friend Fanch Parker. It was broadcasted on Sept. 22nd, 2024 in a Sleeping Forecast program.

This compositions is dedicated to my dear friend Heike Mattiesen, who passed away at the end of 2023. She was battling cancer for many years, and unfortunately, she did not make it. When I learned about it just around the Christmas time, I could not stop crying – and I was on the streets of Osijek, my home town.

Heike passed away in her early 50s, way too soon…and until last moment she dedicated her time to fans, friends, and students – she was a virtuoso on guitar and did many concerts in the last years, recorded a beautiful new album “Guitar Divas” in the fall of 2023, and did masterclasses with a lot of dedication and support given to her students. We will all miss her dearly!

The single came out on Sept. 13th, 2024 and was published by YYR – available on all streaming platforms.

I am glad to announce that Yellow Rose Records published my newest composition “Shadow” on all major streaming platforms on July 7th, 2024. The song is dedicated to Sinead O’Connor, as I very much loved to listen to her in my teenage days. I was very saddened to learn that this summer she passed away too soon, too young. She had a very troubled childhood and a difficult growing up with her cruel mother. I poured my emotions inside of “Shadow” to depict through music my readings about her childhood and my sadness because of her premature ending….

My label, Piano and Nature, sent to me this message that I would like to share with you

“Happy release day! Please see the general release link here: https://AntonijaPacek.lnk.to/Elegy

It’s already added to Classical Music For Studying by Maestro Music: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6wObnEPQ63a4kei1sEcMdH?si=b8e7bea4a69d47db

We’ll also plant a tree for your release. So together, we’re helping nature and local farmers.
At this moment, we work with https://onetreeplanted.org/ for planting trees. Several times a year, we’ll send our releases to OneTreePlanted, so they can plant the trees where they’re needed the most.

If you didn’t receive it already, you’ll receive a digital certificate or several digital certificates for the number of trees planted on your behalf! If you don’t like to receive the certificate, just let us know, the tree will be planted for your release anyway! With your help, we’ve already planted over 300 trees! More info: https://www.pianoandnature.com/forest/ Thank you and speak to you soon!”

I am so happy that one tree will be planted with this release!

I am thrilled to announce that my physical album “Spark” with 12 new compositions and 2 bonus tracks was out on 28.06.2024. I am thrilled to receive two beautiful reviews for this album from Stereo Stickman and from OWMR RADIO in UK. You can find full articles under press section here.

A premier in Pula of the “Woman Anthem” theater play written by Davor Spisic and directed by Robert Raponja had a lot applause on June 28th, 2024. I would like to congratulate to the entire team.

In the article there were also some reflections upon my work on sound design for the theater play:

“A special place in the play is given to the ambiental, inspiring music and sound design of Antonija Pacek, a composer who lives near Vienna. She introduced the audience to the atmosphere of the play with her magical piano concerto. Among other things, she performed works from her recently released album “Sparks”, some of which are also part of the show. Speaking about the creation of the music for Zena Hymn, Antonija Pacek says that the text got under her skin already with the first reading, and she used the music to describe the emotions that this deeply felt story carries.”

Dear friends,

I would like to invite you to a premier of the theater play “Woman Anthem”, written by Davor Spisic, who won a Marin Drzic award for it, and directed by Robert Raponja. The premier will be on June 28th, 2024 at 9.00 pm on the castle in Pula. Monika Duvnjak has the major role, and is embodying Paula Preradovic herself (a woman that wrote a national anthem text for Austria), with her appearance on the stage in the roles of Mother and Father is a heroine Selma Alispahić, the champion of the Sarajevo theater SARTR (Sarajevo War Theater). In the role of Irina, the simultaneously delicate and powerful drama champion of the Croatian National Theater of Osijek, Anita Schmidt, and Katica Šubarić, a multiple award-winning actress from Osijek, who is also the winner of the Croatian Theater Award, shines with the role of Gerda.

I will play a short concert before the play starts, and look forward to seeing you there.

My newest composition “In Your Eyes”, written for my husband, is coming out on June 21st, 2024, and it will be published by the Yellow Rose Records label. Stay tuned!

Yellow Rose Records wrote: “The Wave is a modern classical single composed and recorded by Antonija Pacek, a native Croatian/Austrian awarded neoclassical composer and pianist. The tune is about riding a wave like our life with ups and downs, being constantly in motion.” it was published on May 10th. Please let me know what this melody evokes in you…

So delighted to share with you that “Almost Goodbye” from my fourth album “Forever” was broadcasted on the BBC radio in London, Sleeping Forecast program, on May 22nd, 2024 right at the beginning of this program!

Laura from Italy presents new artists every week. At the beginning of May, she presented me as a composer and an artist and my music to her audience.

I appreciate her words on her blog so much: “I can’t express how much I am honoured to introduce Antonija to my blog, who played in venues such as L’Arena di Verona (that for an Italian like me is simply a dream!)…” She also compared me to Ludovico Einaudi in her blog. For more information and for my interview with Laura, please go to my Instagram page: antonijapacek