Ljerka Očić reveals herself as an artist of wide interests and creative curiosity…The mastership with which she performs is a logical outcome of her broad knowledge, as well as the fine elaboration of all segments of her performance, particularly agogic nuances and registration that are through Ms. Očić’s unique imagination always finely attuned to the style and character of the particular work. Ljerka Očić’s performance in the Osor cathedral had all the charm and freshness of a momentary inspiration, although the perfection of her playing suggested a very thorough, utter precision in every detail...
«NOVI LIST», Bosiljka Perić-Kempf
Ljerka Očić, most certainly the most prominent name in Croatian contemporary organ playing, whose performances always capture one’s attention with their authentic sophistication and an exceptional feeling for each element of the organ sound…gave thus a new shine to a Heferer instrument...
«VEČERNJI LIST», Branko Magdić
Masterly and imaginatively, with the nerve and power of expression, with a distinctive choice of register, rhythm, tempo, and agogic accents, she has once more confirmed her supreme quality as a top Croatian organist with an international career.
«VJESNIK», Višnja Požgaj
Croatian organist Ljerka Očić showed us an intelligent example of her interpretative range and her sensibility, and in the best of ways used musical capabilities of the instrument...
«IL QUOTIDIANO»
Ljerka Očić ended her concert with a representative composition by O. Messiaen. With the help of Ljerka Očić’s comprehensive and expert commentary enclosed in the program booklet, one could follow with maximal concentration her impressive, technically perfect, expressive, and powerful performance. With her superb interpretation she faithfully, intelligently, and thoughtfully conveyed the composer’s musical score to the audience.
«VJESNIK», Višnja Požgaj
Winners must always have precedence! And Ljerka Očić is by no means the most prominent name of Croatian contemporary organ playing…a charming lady with glamorous stage presence of a movie star suddenly changes course, and with aristocratic dignity, brings her queen of all instruments to a sophisticated classic performance of carefully chosen works of F. Mendelssohn. It was a truly royal performance on a truly royal instrument at the Zagreb cathedral. In a succession of intelligent dramaturgical alterations of Mendelssohn’s Preludes and Fugues and the three sonatas, calmly guided phrases and tasteful colouring brought to the fore the artist’s sophisticated feel for the author’s clear polyphonic-homophonic structure of his works.
«VEČERNJI LIST», Branko Magdić
....With her temperamental performance, brilliant organist Ljerka Očić brought a ‘new wind’ to the South-West Florida...
DAYLY NEWS, Barney Schultz
...Contrastingly, the music of Poulenc resonated strongly in his Organ Concerto, the experience of most extraordinary possibilities of the organ as the instrument being so powerful thanks to the rich musical talent of Ljerka Očić...
«VJESNIK», Jagoda Martinčević
Ljerka Očić flawlessly emphasized arresting melodies and powerfully created grandiose impressions of German Romanticists’ monumental compositions...
«HRVATSKO SLOVO», Emil Čić
...Her sophisticated performances are profoundly musically styled, the result of deep concentration and expression of complete delivering and understanding of the chosen composition...
«SLOBODNA DALMACIJA», Alisa Čakarun
Ljerka Očić’s concert in Split confirmed her as a true artist. Virtuosity doesn’t burden her, and her sensibility shows her the paths to imaginative creations in the choice of registers…The high point of the concert was her magnificent performance of Bach’s works…whose music in such a superb performance deserved the audience’s admiration and respect...
«SLOBODNA DALMACIJA «,Tatjana Alajbeg
The evening was dedicated to the performance of Croatia’s master organist Ljerka Očić and Slovene trumpeter Stanko Arnold…It was a match made in heaven, whose musical outplaying in a vivacious swinging style shall long be remembered..
«VEČERNJI LIST», Branko Magdić
...the organ’s massive sound made the space inside the Zagreb cathedral whirl with its spiritually-filled content…With the bold and imaginative registration organist Ljerka Očić achieved extremely powerful effects, deepening musical content whose elegance implied a sensitive and powerful interpreter.
«HRVATSKO SLOVO», Sanja Raca
..Two superb artists (Arnold - Očić) of profound musical talent and temperament, in their inspired performance, achieved a perfect harmony for which they were rewarded with thunderous applause and standing ovations...
«VJESNIK», Višnja Požgaj
The Arnold – Očić duo, “Brilliant Virtuosi” – Zadar, The Church of St. Simon ...these two artists fascinate us with their deep commitment, creativity, and inspiration with which they approach the exploration of their instruments…With perfect concentration and emotionality that activate all the senses they truly succeeded in conveying it to us… Such an approach leaves nobody disinterested, and such was the case also in Zadar...
«SLOBODNA DALMACIJA», Alisa Čakarun
The evening passed in laid-back performance but brilliantly played…Superbly performed program (Arnold – Očić) offered the audience a thrilling experience of a concert event...
«PRIMORSKE NOVICE», Anna Fink
Together with organist Ljerka Očić, whose playing combines wonderfully her powerful musical temperament with a premeditated striving towards absolute perfection of performance, Stanko Arnold seems a perfect interpreter within a duo that builds its success primarily on their mutual artistic aims..
«VJESNIK», Bosiljka Perić-Kempf
Organist Ljerka Očić and trumpeter Stanko Arnold have intuitively found a proper artistic expression, evolving their differences towards homogeneity, adjusting organ registration to an almost intimate sensitivity for musical fusion of both instruments… The concert was attended by an unusually large audience that with sincere enthrallment demanded even six encores ...
«DELO» , Bogdan Učakar
There couldn’t have been a better choice of artists for the final concert of the music event organized by Associazione Bach Trieste! Their music flowed with ease and naturalness, and suggested a relationship always well balanced…In this case, organist Ljerka Očić is an ideal match for trumpeter Stanko Arnold…The enthusiastic audience demanded even four encores, thus the musicians played the entire concert almost once more...
«IL VOCE DEL POPOLO», Stefano Bianchi
Organ...the Energy of Spirit Is the title of the new book by prominent Croatian organist Ljerka Očić, promoted in the frame of her recital at the third concert of the XII season of house-concerts “From the Očić Family Salon”… According to her words, each attempt at music playing necessarily calls for spiritual awareness, perhaps even a somewhat philosophical approach, which in harmony with emotional awareness, following a very strict rational setup can, through a synergy of all elements, certainly provide a satisfactory final result not only in organ playing but also in being a musician as such. Ljerka Očić showed this also in practice in her beautiful and extremely demanding program – the concept of which was in line with the pre-Christmas spirit in which, with her superb technique, imaginative registration, and an inner calm, she freed her creative energy and above all her contagious joy of playing...
«VIJENAC», Višnja Požgaj
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