Radovan Vlatkovic was Principal Horn with the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin for eight years from 1982 onwards, leaving the orchestra in 1990 to devote himself entirely to his solo career. In 1992 he was appointed professor at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart. He has taught at the Mozarteum University since 1998. As a result of his rich and varied career, Radovan Vlatkovic can today draw on a wide-ranging repertoire that extends from Baroque music to the 20th century.
Radovan Vlatkovic (b. 1962 in Zagreb) received his first horn lessons at the age of six during a two-year stay in the United States. He later studied at the music academy in his hometown and at the Northwest German Music Academy in Detmold, graduating with distinction. Already during his studies, Vlatkovic achieved international recognition, winning prizes at the International Horn Competition in Liège, Belgium, at the 12th Yugoslav Music Competition and at the International Competition "Premio Ancona" in Italy. He was particularly proud to receive 1st prize at the international ARD competition in Munich in 1983, the first horn player in 14 years to be honoured in this way.
As a soloist he has travelled to nearly all European countries, America, Canada and Mexico, Israel, the Middle East and East Africa, Japan and Australia. He has performed with orchestras including the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields, Camerata Academica of the Mozarteum, Yomjuri Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra and the NHK Symphony Orchestra.
Vlatkovic has recorded all the horn concertos by WA Mozart and Richard Strauss on the EMI Classics record label, together with the English Chamber Orchestra under Jeffrey Tate. His recording of the Mozart Horn Concertos was awarded the German Record Critics' Prize.