VELJKO GLODIC (1958) as a child took piano lessons form a Russian born and educated teacher Milochka Buynov. In 1980. graduated in piano from the Zagreb Music Academy in the class of prof. Jurica Murai.

As a student he won several awards including the first price at the Yugoslav Competition of Music Students, and «Svetislav Stancic» award of the Croatian Music Institute. He went on to study in the United States , first in Boston where he earned his master's degree at The New England Conservatory under Jacob Maxin (a student and assistant of Edward Steuermann ).

He continued his studies with the pianist Leonard Shure (studied with Arthur Schnabel in Berlin), and subsequently enrolled in doctoral studies at the Florida State University, which he completed under Edward Kilenyi, who was along with Ani Fisher and sir George Solti, one of the the best known students of Ernest von Dohnanyi’s class at the Budapest Academy.

Ever since his return from the United States Veljko Glodic has been engaged in intensive concert and teaching activities. The wide scope of his music interests and talent has brought him recognition in various fields of pianist activity, including jazz.

His performances in Croatia and abroad ( Slovenia , Germany , Hungary , USA., Russia ) have established Veljko Glodic as an excellent chamber musician and the soloist, as well as an artist open to exploring the values of contemporary, but also of less performed standard piano music.

His performances were heard on Florida Public Radio, Connecticut Public Radio, Slovenian Radio, Hungarian Radio, Moscow Radio and Croatian Radio, where he recorded numerous chamber and solo works.

He has appeared on Croatian Television, Hungarian Television, Television Skopje, and Television Sarajevo. Glodić has recorded a piano part of Concerto for Percussion A. Joliveta with Zagreb Philharmony under the direction of Kazushi Ono on CD.

His CD recordings promote the wide scope of piano repertory. In March of 2005. gave a Master Class at the Moscow State Conservatory “P. I. Tchaikowsky” organised by EPTA Russia and in 2008. he was and Artist in Residence at the Goucher College, Baltimore, U. S. A. where he presented a solo recital, a Master Class, a Jazz Concert with the Goucher Jazz Faculty, and a Lecture Recital on the Croatioan composer Dora Pejacevic. In 2010. he received the Diploma of Excellence in piano performance awarded by the World Piano Teachers Association for the recital presented at the World Piano Conference in Novi Sad,  Serbia.  The same year he was a member of jury at the «Vera Lotar Schevchenko» international piano competition in Russia

He serves as a professor at the Zagreb Music Academy Piano Department.

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