Biography
Miroslav Radić was born on 19 January 1975 in Pécs, Hungary, and took up the clarinet at eight at the music school in Mohács with József Komlódy. He finished music school and primary school in the same year, 1988/89 — studying the Croatian language along the way — while playing in the city wind ensemble and the youth tamburica group of the local cultural centre. In 1989 he entered the Kodály Zoltán secondary music school in Kecskemét, finished his secondary studies in Szeged in June 1994, and graduated from the Szeged Music Academy in June 1999 as a clarinettist and teacher in János Maczák’s class.
Between 1995 and 1999 he was principal and bass clarinettist of the opera and symphony orchestra of the National Theatre of Szeged, a member of the Weiner Leó chamber ensemble and the Salieri chamber orchestra, and assistant clarinet teacher at the music school in Baja. Since autumn 1999 he has been professor of clarinet at the Art and Music Grammar School in Pécs, teaching additionally in Szekszárd from 2000 to 2009, where he also served as president of the local Croatian minority self-government. He plays clarinet and alto and soprano saxophone in the Szekszárd Big Band, and the clarinet ensembles he has built with his students — founded to give them early orchestral and chamber experience — perform regularly at cultural events. His wife, an oboist, is a member of the Pécs Philharmonic and a professor at the same school, and he has secured high-quality instruments for his students over the years.
The city of Pécs has awarded him its “Talent Pro” prize three times for his contribution to the city’s musical culture. His students have taken five first places at the national woodwind competition in Kaposvár, prizes and a teacher’s award at the national clarinet competition in Győr, and international awards in Carlino, Oldenburg, Sogliano, Belgrade and Štanjel — with graduates continuing to the studios of François Benda in Basel, Laura Ruiz Ferreres in Frankfurt, and Sabine Meyer and Reiner Wehle in Lübeck.