Juraj Marko Žerovnik

Juraj Marko Žerovnik is a Croatian-Slovenian composer and pianist. He was born in 1993 in Rijeka, Croatia, where he started his musical education. In 2017 he graduated piano and in 2018 composition, both at the Zagreb Music Academy. Žerovnik spent the academic year 2017/2018 in Karlsruhe, Germany, where he made acquaintances with and gathered knowledge from Wolfgang Rihm. In 2024 Žerovnik finished a postgraduate degree in Ljubljana, under mentorship of Vito Žuraj. In September 2023 Žerovnik's multilingual chamber opera Pred vrati postave-Davanti alla legge was performed on Italian-Slovenian border in Gorizia. In May 2024 Žerovnik received a prestigious Milko Kelemen prize awarded by the Croatian Composers' Society and a commission for the 33. MBZ – Music Biennale Zagreb. His pieces are frequently performed internationally, on four continents so far. Currently he works as an assistant professor at Juraj Dobrila University in Pula, Croatia.

CV updated on 2026-10-02.