Maksim

Mrvica, who studied piano with Maria Serkoso at the age of 9, participated in the 1993 Zagreb He won the first piano competition in his career.

Maxim continued his studies for five years at the Conservatoire in Zagreb with Vladimir Kirpan, a student of Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli.

Later, he studied at the Franz Riest Academy of Arts in Budapest and won the first prize in the "Nicola Rubinstein International Piano Competition" in the same year.

In 2000, he went to Paris to study with Igor Razik and won the first prize in the Pontos Piano Competition again that year.

Back in Croatia, Maxim recorded his first album "Gestures" with other contemporary Croatian pianists. It became one of the best-selling classical music records at that time, and was even invited to participate in the Bolin Music Awards (this award ceremony is known as the Croatian Grammy Awards) and perform at the opening ceremony. This honor is rarely given to a classical music player. Musician; he won 4 awards at the awards ceremony, including the Best Classical Music Award.

Not long after the release of "Gesture", Maxim was noticed by musician and writer Ton?i

Hulji? At that time, the famous British producer Mel Bush was looking for a new piano player. He was struck by the young musician, and soon after signing him he released a new album: The Piano

Player .

The album makes great changes to the works of Haider and Chopin, combining the original serious classical music with pop music and electronic music.

The success of "The Piano Player" greatly increased his international reputation, and he toured Asia on a large scale from 2003 to 2004.

In 2004, Maxim was selected by the Athens Olympic Organizing Committee to play the Olympic theme song "Olympic" (Olympic

dream). This song is included in his 2004 album "Transformers 1&2".

In 2005, the new album "The

New

World" was released;

In 2006, the album "Electric" was released 》.