Biography - Garić Petar

Petar Garić was born in Podgorica in 1980, where he finished musical high school, on two departments,  music theory  department and instrument department  – clarinet.

He graduated from the Academy of Music in Cetinje, in the class of Professor Ante Grgin in 2004 with a highest grade at the final exam.

He also completed his masters studies in the class of Professor Grgin at the Music Academy cetinje with the highest grade at the final concert.

As a student, he started working in the Radio and Television of Montenegro Symphony Orchestra, as the Principal clarinetist. He worked in the RTCG Symphony Orchestra until the institution ceased to operate.

Since the establishment of the Montenegrin Music Centre, he has been working in the Montenegrin Symphony Orchestra (CSO) as the Principal clarinetist, and is a member of the wind ensemble - Montenegrin Winds, which was created and successfully operates under the patronage of the Montenegrin Music Center. He is also a member and one of the founders of the Montenegrin Wind Quintet, an ensemble consisting of the first winds of the CSO. He is a member of the Wind quintet Tramontana. He is the artistic director of the Kotor Art Chamber Ensemble.

In his career as a chamber musician, he has collaborated with prominent artists such as: Peter Langgartner, Aleksej Molčanov, Aneta Ilić, Žana Marinković, Borislav Čičovački, Miran Begić, Viktor Uzur, Duncan McTier, Isidora Žebeljan, Vujadin Krivokapić, Marija Đurđević Ilić, Mihajlo Radivojević, Jarina Denisenko, Veljko Klenkovski, Igor Lazić, Ivana Dakić, Nikola Ćirić, Nenad Janković, Bojan Pešić, Dimitri Romano, Nadica Ristić Simović, Ana Abramović, Antonio Nasevski,  Dimitri Prokofiev, Ratimir Martinovic and others.

As a soloist, he performed with conductors Alexei Shatski, Grigory Krasko, Ivan Josip Skender and Mladen Tarbuk, and as an orchestral musician, he collaborated with conductors such as Radovan Papović, Ronald Colman, Miroslav Homen, Heinrich Schiff, Bojan Suđić, Borjan Canev, Uwe Timer, Marc Korovic, Robert Homen, Uroš Lajovic, Kiril Stankov, Miguel Romea, Stefan Malzew, Holly Hyun Choe and many others.

He held master classes in Trieste, Italy, at the Giuseppe Tartini Conservatory and at the Vojislav Vučković High School of Music in Belgrade.

Today, his former students are clarinet teachers in majority of music schools in Montenegro.