Rastko, born in Lazarevac, started playing clarinet at the age of nine. He studied with Zvonko Mornar, Veljko Klenkovski, Goran Stojanovic. Currently he is a student of Ljubisa Jovanovic.

He has won over 30 prizes as a soloist, member of chamber music ensemble or orchestra and attended master classes with Ljubisa Jovanovic, Bruno di Girollamo, Milan Rericha, Aleksandar Tasic and Nikola Srdic. He was also member of the Youth Philharmony Orchestra 'Borislav Pascan'.

Repertoire

Solo

D. Despic, Nine Dances
A. Grgin, Capriccio No. 1
B. Kovacs, Hommage à C. M. von Weber
B. Kovacs, Hommage à J. S. Bach
B. Kovacs, Hommage à M. de Falla
B. Kovacs, Hommage à N. Paganinni
B. Kovacs, Hommage à R. Strauss
B. Kovacs, Hommage à Z. Kodaly
I. Stravinsky, Three pieces

With piano

A. Giampieri, Il Carnevale di Venezia
A. Grgin, Sonata
J. Mouquet, Solo de Concours
W. A. Mozart, Four Church Sonatas
H. Rabaud, Solo de Concours
G. Schocker, Sonata
Z. Vauda, Sonata Brevis

Chamber music

A. Čabarkapa, Hanume (clarinet duo)
A. Čabarkapa, Nostalgia (clarinet quintet)
C. Debussy – Clair de Lune (clarinet quintet)
J. Haydn, Allegro Spiritoso from 'Three Duets' (Op. 99) (clarinet duo)
A. Magnanni, Primo tempo in forma di sonata (clarinet duo)
W. A. Mozart, Allegro from Symphony No. 25 in G minor (clarinet quintet)
W. A. Mozart, Allegro Risoluto from Duet No. 4 (clarinet duo)
W. A. Mozart, Overture to 'The Marriage of Figaro' (clarinet quintet)
A. Vivaldi, Spring (clarinet quintet)

With orchestra

L. Bassi, Rigoletto Fantasia da concerto
A. Copland, Concerto
C. Debussy, Premier Rhapsody
A. Grgin, Concertino
A. Grgin, Theme and Variations No. 1 and No. 2
S. Mercadante, Concerto
C. Stamitz, Concerto No. 3
C. Stamitz, Concerto No. 7
C. M. von Weber, Concertino
C. M. von Weber, Concerto in F minor

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