Mirko Dorner
Mirko Dorner was a German-Hungarian cellist, composer and painter, raised in Belgrade.
Dorner was trained at the Belgrade Conservatory and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. He then returned to Belgrade, teaching at its Conservatory before settling in 1954 in Germany as the cello soloist at the Berlin Philharmonic and a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts. In the meantime Dorner won the 1949 Concours de Geneve and the 1952 Vercelli's Viotti competition.
