Bruno Vlahek

Bruno Vlahek (born 11 February 1986, Zagreb) is a Croatian pianist and composer.

Vlahek started his musical education at the age of 9 in his hometown. Being immediately recognized as a specially gifted child, he entered class of Vladimir Krpan and graduated piano at the Zagreb Academy of Music as one of the youngest students in the history of this institution. He obtained a soloist diploma at the Conservatoire de Lausanne with Jean-François Antonioli and received a master's degree at the Hochschule für Musik Köln where his teachers were Vassily Lobanov (piano), Tilmann Claus and Johannes Fritsch (composition and improvisation). From 2010-2013 he studied with Dmitri Bashkirov at the Queen Sofía College of Music in Madrid.

Vlahek's piano playing has been noted for "fantastic virtuosity" and "depth of musical thought that bewitches the audience". The critics have called him a "New Pogorelich". He regularly gives recitals and appears as a soloist with orchestras throughout Europe, in Asia, Africa, South America, Russia and Israel; in the venues such as Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona, Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest, National Auditorium of Music in Madrid, Gasteig in Munich, Mozarteum Salzburg, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Shanghai Concert Hall, Seoul Arts Centre; and at the festivals of Bolzano,Dubrovnik, Vienna, Moscow, Palma de Mallorca, Dar-es-Salaam, Verbier and many others. His performances were broadcast on TV and radio stations such as British BBC3, Dutch NPO Radio 4, Catalunya Ràdio or Radio Suisse Romande, for which he recorded Saint-Saëns' Piano Concerto No. 2 with Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne. He regularly performs with his wife Dubravka Vukalović as D&B Piano Duo. He also appears as a concert organist.