Welcome!

I'm Javor, a concert pianist with a passion for engaging audiences in deep explorations of musical masterworks. I believe music reaches us at a most profound level if we listen carefully. For that purpose I created The Art of Listening, a conversation-concert series that takes audience members on a uniquely interactive, interpretative quest for musical meaning.

I am a first-prize winner of several international piano competitions and a performer in music festivals such as Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Dubrovnik Summer Festival, and Music Academy of the West. My concert career has taken me to sixteen countries across five continents, to concert halls ranging from Carnegie Hall and Kennedy Center to local schools, museums, and hospitals. I have given fundraising concerts for charities such as the American Cancer Society and the International Rescue Committee.

Among my teachers are renowned piano pedagogues Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, Pavlina Dokovska, Richard Goode, and others at the University of Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, and Mannes College in New York. After receiving my doctorate of musical arts from City University of New York, I started teaching piano at Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College. I also give masterclasses at festivals and schools throughout the United States. I see it as my calling and obligation to share my gained expertise with new generations of young musicians and to guide them on their musical journeys.

Please take a look at the rest of my website, including the music section, and be in touch!