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Thank you Damir Leljak @ Gloria.hr for your great interview about healing sides of music, and for recommending “Forever” album in this context. I feel gratefiul!

La compositrice e pianista Antonija Pacek stupisce ancora con Forever. Un album di musica per pianoforte soul ed estetica, in uno stile minimalista tra musica classica e popolare. La Pacek, che ha una laurea in psicologia, non e estranea alla conditio humana, e mentre il temperamento dei suoi pezzi e decisamente malinconico, la loro dolce espressivita abbraccia tutta la gamma delle emozioni umane…

A big thanks to blog Roma is Love for a beautiful posting on Sept. 22nd on FB and IG. The text reads:

Composer and pianist Antonija Pacek amazes again with Forever. An album of soulful and aesthetic piano music, in a minimalist style between classical and popular music. Pacek, who has a degree in psychology, is no stranger to the “humana conditio”, and while the temperament of her pieces is decidedly melancholy, their sweet expressiveness encompasses the full range of human emotions …

Thank you “B in Rome” for a beautiful article about my upcoming album “Forever”, which will be published on Oct. 23rd, 2020 by Parma Recordings and their Navona Records. The album will be available on all streaming platforms and as a CD on Amazon as of Oct. 23rd. Stay tuned.

Photography in the article is by Dean Tosovic, done on the island of Lopud in Croatia. Photography on the cover of the CD is by Antonio Gonzalez.

Thank you Mic for publishing an article about my newest album that is coming out at the end of June. It will be published by Parma Recordings label and will be available on all streaming platforms and as a CD. Thank you Pianeta Salute for bringing the word out in Italy!

Full article

Today I signed a contract with Parma Recordings, a well-known classical music label in the USA. Parma Recordings will publish my newest, fourth album “Forever”. The album will be available on all major streaming platforms and also in a CD form. Their team accepted all of my 13 new songs: Sofia, If Only Time Allowed, Gone Young, Forever, Lullaby, Light, Almost Goodbye, Before the Rain, Deep Red, Farewell to Sad, Inner Child, Wanna Dance and What is Waiting for Me. I suggested also two bonus tracks, and am waiting for their confirmation. Parma Recordings accepted the chosen picture from Antonio Gonzalez, the Windmill, which was the picture of the day on NASA’s platform on April 17th, 2020. I feel very delighted, grateful and excited!

On May 9th, 2020 Rade Serbedzija, one of our most prominent and expressive actors, published on his FB artist page a recital of Izet Sarajlic’s beautiful and very sad poem, “Veceras cemo za njih voljeti”. In the background is playing my newest compositions “If only time allowed”. The fact that Rade chose my song is a tremendous honor and I feel so grateful. “If only time allowed” will be published on the new album “Forever”.

Watching Rade perform this poem with a lot of emotions made me cry…

I look forward to your impressions of this performance…

I would like to introduce my new CD cover for the newest album “Forever”. The photography is a part of the photo made by Antonio Gonzalez and the art work was designed by Robert Skondro. The album will be published in June, so stay tuned.

I look forward to your impressions about the CD cover…

I feel so excited, honored and delighted to share that I have got a permission to take one of the most beautiful photos of the universe and a windmill, taken by Antonio Gonzalez, for the new cover of my newest CD “Forever”. Antonio wrote to me that he really loves my music and that his photography will match well my new compositions. The compositions will reflect darkness and light of our current uneasy situation while most of the countries are in lockdown mode. However, we also need some uplifting and relaxing tunes to conquer the current stress and frustrations we might feel.

If you like to listen to the music on Spotify and would like to enjoy your life and feel relaxed, go to a wonderful playlist by Solo Piano Music by Matthew Mayer on Spotify! Let me know how much you felt emotions and joy, or even worked through your own sadness by listening to these amazing compositions …

Solopiano.com announced at the beginning of Feb. 2020 album of the year nominees, who represent 13 different countries and 6 different categories. I am very honored and delighted that my album “IL MARE” was nominated in the category of “Contemporary and Modern Album of the year 2019”.  The announcement of the winner will be on Feb. 24th, 2020. A warm congratulation to all of the amazing nominees, including David Nevue. I would also like to express my gratitude, as well as a huge congratulations to Matthew Mayer for the 20th anniversary of the solopiano.com, a platform that supports unselfishly solo piano composers and artists. Feeling very grateful!

For the full video of Rade Serbedzija’s and Antonija Pacek’s performance at the Akzent Theater in Vienna on Jan. 18th, 2020, please go to:

A huge thanks to Rade Serbedzija for inviting me to his concert in Vienna. It was a magical and unforgettable evening. For our performance, Rade recited a poem “On a Pink Paper” by Nikica Petrak and I played my newest song “Sofia”. Antun Stasic colored the song with his dreamy violine. Photography by Albin Melez.

Come and enjoy the concert of Rade Serbedzija and Zapadni Kolodvor on Jan. 18th, 2020 at 7.30 pm at the Akzent Theater in Vienna (3. district). There will be a little surprise. As a guest, I will be tremendously honored to perform my new compositions “Sofia” while Rade recites a poem. Feeling very grateful!

Check out the new playlist from the American Solopiano.com on Spotify! “Before the Storm” from last IL MARE album is song no. 2!

Enjoy the beautiful music from various musicians. Thank you Matthew Mayers for choosing “Before the Storm” to be listed there!

Happy new Year everyone!

Dear friends and listeners,

merry Christmas and wishing to everyone to realise own dreams in 2020!

It has been a great joy and honor that my album IL MARE is listed to be top 11 at the Enlightened Piano Radio recordings for October 2019, as reported to the ZONE MUSIC REPORTER chart. Congratulations also to my colleagues for their top 20 listing – especially congrats to my friend Andrew James Johnson!

Dear Antonija, I listened to [Il Mare ablum] with my husband… It is music for wakening and as a lullaby, for listening with closed eyes, connected hands, emotional and subtle, rich, yet stripped to the core, minimalistic but glorious in its expression, feels right at the first hearing, waiting eagerly to listen to it again and again… Big LIKE from both of us

Draga Antonija, poslusala sam sa suprugom [Il Mare]… Glazba za budjenje i uspavljivanje, za slusanje zatvorenih ociju, spojenih ruku, emotivna i suptilna, bogata, a opet ogoljena do srzi, jednostavna a velicanstvena u izricaju, sjeda na prvo slusanje, cekajuci nestrpljivo nova preslusavanja…
Big like, od oba

Thank you from the bottom of my heart, Snjezana!

“The first time I listened to “Il Mare” I was doing reiki. Antonija’s music calmed our souls. While listening I received a tremendous emotional experience and at one point tears were rolling down my cheeks. Her music seemed to draw pictures in my mind. I absolutely loved it! Thank you for your talent as a song writer and for your music!” XX Jody Hekela

Dear Jody, thank you very much from my heart for your deeply felt emotions in my music and for sharing your experience with me (and for allowing me to publish your kind words here)!

Solo Piano favorites from Whisperings Radio playlist on Spotify. Topping the playlist this week with music from Matthew Mayer, Gary Girouard, Steven C. Anderson, Craig Urquhart, Amy Janelle, Joe Bongiorno and Antonija Pacek. “Floating” is no. 7 on the playlist. Enjoy, share, and write me some impressions!

Check out my new video from Auditorium concert in Rome on YouTube, featuring “Before the Storm” and “Forgive” from my IL MARE album. Don’t forget to subscribe on my YouTube channel.

I have got an amazing master class session by Gabriel Yared as a part of Film Music Symposium in Vienna. Mr. Yared shared his experience with film composing very generously and authentically. Films like English Patient and Betty Blue would not be the same without Mr. Yared’s beautiful music. Feeling very grateful!

An unforgettable and magic concert with Matej Mestrovic and Matthew Mayer on the island of Brijuni on Aug. 12th. The evening was full of surprises, to get a warm welcome from our living legend, Rade Serbedzija and sincere words of congratulations from Lenka and Rade after our concert, as well as to enjoy the dinner with them and their lovely daughter Mimi, were certainly surreal. I will cherish the memory of this evening forever!

A memory on my concert at Lafodia on the island of Lopud (the second concert during this summer on Lopud). Thank you Valentina for the captured moment after the concert.

Valentina Mekovec is a soprano opera singer and my music connected us during that evening. She wrote on her FB page: “Yesterday evening I enjoyed a wonderful performance of the beautiful artist Antonija Pacek. The passion of composing and performing her own music is unbelievable. It was such a pleasure to meet you and thank you for touching our hearts.”

Advertising the concert on Brijuni with Matej Mestrovic and Matthew Mayer.

Here is the full program of the Summer 2019 festival at the island of Lopud near Dubrovnik.