Ivan Bosnar 2020 NCOI First Place and Audience Prize Winner
Ivan Bosnar, a native of Croatia, is pursuing a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Organ Performance at the Eastman School of Music, where he has studied organ with Nathan Laube and improvisation with Edoardo Bellotti and William Porter. Previously, he studied at Zagreb Music Academy and at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz. Ivan won First Prize in the Croatian Organ Student Competition in 2009, as well as Second Prize and Audience Prize in the University of Michigan Organ Improvisation Competition in 2016. He serves as Organist and Music Director at St. John the Evangelist Church in Spencerport, NY.