Peter Fancovic was born in Slovakia to a musical family. He performed at an early age as a soloist with the Conservatory’s Symphonic Orchestra and Bratislava Chamber Orchestra, winning first prize in the National Conservatory Competition. He received his Bachelors and Masters Degree in Piano Performance at Manhattan School of Music in New York City.

 

He has been awarded prizes in the J. N. Hummel Competition held in Slovakia (the best representative from his country) and, in the Czech Republic, the Marianske Lazne International Chopin Competition and the Hradec International Beethoven Competition, where he received first prize and a special prize as the best interpreter of Beethoven.  He was selected to participate in the “New Virtuosi On Tour” concert series in various concert halls in Holland, including the prestigious Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.



Peter Fancovic's musical interest is not only in the classical music. He performed his own jazz transcriptions and renditions of early jazz piano music in the “Tribute To Stride Piano”  with at Manhattan School of Music. Throughout his studies in Slovakia, Fancovic has performed Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No. 1 and Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with Bratislava State Conservatory Symphonic Orchestra as well as Mozart’s Concerto KV 415 with The International Youth Orchestra. As the latest  concerto performance, he played Mendelssohn’s Concerto as a selected winner of the annual concerto competition held at the Manhattan School of Music.