Jurica Petar PETRAČ

JURICA PETAR PETRAČ (Croatia, 1985) graduated in music theory (2009) and choral conducting (2021) at the University of Zagreb Academy of Music in the class of T. Fačini. 

At age of 17, he founded the mixed choir Capella miércoles. From 2008 to 2014, he led Capella juris, a mixed choir of the Faculty of Law (University of Zagreb), with whom he had won several important awards in Croatia and abroad (Zagreb, Ohrid, Prague, Split, Warsaw). In 2011, he was appointed as the new conductor of Cantores Sancti Marci, winning several first prizes at prestigious choir festivals.

In 2015, he joined the Antiphonus vocal ensemble. He has taken masterclasses with various vocal (M. Gojčeta Silić, B. Falinska, K. Livljanić) and conducting professors (C. Metters, D. Reuss, M. Korovitch, S. Carrington, V. Kranjčević, H. Speck, D. Danzmayer, M. Tarbuk, N. Schweckendick). 

In 2018, he established an international vocal ensemble and workshop Viatores mundi. 

Petrač teaches music at Blagoje Bersa Music School in Zagreb. Since 2019, he has been appointed as artistic director of klapa (traditional Dalmatian vocal ensemble) Cesarice. 

In 2022 he was appointed musical director-conductor of the National Folk Dance Ensemble of Croatia LADO.