LAS VEGAS - October 26, 2009 - UNLV welcomes acclaimed percussionist Nebojsa Zivkovic in concert at 6 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 8 in the Doc Rando Recital Hall of the Beam Music Center at UNLV. The performance is free and open to the public. Donations are welcome at the door.

Hailed by critics as one of the most unique and expressive marimba and percussion artists in the field today, Zivkovic has greatly influenced the international percussion scene during the last two decades as both a masterful composer and virtuoso performer.

A native of Serbia, Zivkovic completed his degrees in composition, music theory, and percussion in Mannheim and Stuttgart, Germany, where he has resided since 1980. He tours extensively throughout Europe, and performs frequently in the U.S., Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Latin America, and Russia.

Zivkovic has performed in such prestigious venues as Vienna's "Konzerthaus," National Recital Hall Taipei, Munich's Herkulessaal, St. Petersburg's Eremitage Theatre and Stockholm's Nybrokajen. He also has been a guest performer at festivals such as Gaudeamus Amsterdam, Schleswig-Holstein Musikfestival, Dance-in-your-head, Minneapolis and several times at PASIC (Percussive Arts Society Int. Convention). ?As a soloist, mostly with his own marimba and percussion concertos, Zivkovic has performed with the Stuttgart Philharmonic, Munich Symphonic Orchestra, Bochum Philharmonic, Austrian Chamber Symphony, Hannover Radio Symphony, Bielefeld Philharmonic, Belgrade Philharmonic, Thessaloniki State Orchestra Greece, Osaka Festival Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra Costa Rica, Lithuanian State Symphony and Slovenian Philharmonic.

Zivkovic's marimba is "Stradivari" among the Marimbas: order made, one-of-the-kind instrument, made by Yamaha in Japan especially for him. He has recorded six CDs for marimba and percussion.

Zivkovic's concert at UNLV is made possible, in part, through Jack Rappaport of the Rappaport Foundation, as well as through the UNLV percussion students.

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