Artists

Franko BOŽAC

Franko BOŽAC (Pula, Croatia, 1974) graduated from the Juraj Dobrila University in Pula, and was at the time the first accordion graduate in Croatia. He continued his studies by pursuing Master’s Degree at the Music Academy Ino Mirković in Lovran and at the Royal Academy of Music in London in the class of Owen Murray. He played in many renowned concert halls all over the world and at festivals such as Cornestone Festival Liverpool, International Music Forums, Bloomsbury Festival, Zetra Festival... Franko Božac also held premiere performances of many works written for accordion, such as the more recent one Concerto for Accordion and Orchestra by British composer James Williams. In 2009, the Croatian Ministry of Sciences, Education and Sports awarded him with a distinction for outstanding achievement in music. He works as a professor of accordion at the Juraj Dobrila University in Pula.