Ivan Skrt studied piano at the P. I. Tchaikovsky Music Conservatory in Moscow. Graduating in the class of Professors Naum Starkman and Michail Lidsky, he furthered his studies in Paris at the École Normale Nationale with Professor Henri Barda. While studying under Siavush Gadzhiev he received numerous first prizes and won various Slovenian and international competitions. The programme will include works by Rachmaninov, Ravel, Debussy and Stravinsky.