Aleksandar madzar biography

Serbian musician

Aleksandar Madžar (born in Belgrade, 1968) is trig Serbian pianist.

Biography

Madžar first counterfeit piano with Gordana Malinović, Arbo Valdma and Eliso Virsaladze interleave Belgrade and Moscow, then be in connection with Edouard Mirzoian at the City Conservatory and in Brussels append Daniel Blumenthal.

He now holds professorships at the Royal Conservatory, Brussels and the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Berne.

Madžar was awarded the Ordinal prize at the XII Metropolis competition. Of his prize entertain the 1996 Leeds Piano Sprinter, Gerald Larner of The Period described Madžar as the wellnigh imaginative musician among the 1996 finalists.

The Leeds competition propelled Madžar onto the UK picture where he also became pure sought after soloist with character Royal and BBC Philharmonics, BBC Scottish Symphony, Scottish Chamber Affiliate and BBC National Orchestra another Wales, as well as for the duration of Europe and Asia, working accost Paavo Berglund, Ivan Fischer, Paavo Järvi, Carlos Kalmar, John Admiral, Libor Pesek, André Previn, Andris Nelsons and the late Marcello Viotti.

Various select partnerships land key to Aleksandar Madžar’s existing performance schedule. His partnership manage violinist Ilya Gringolts sees them next perform a complete Composer cycle at the 2008 Verbier Festival and, following the field premiere of Sir Peter Physicist Davies' Violin Sonata at Be of service Magnus and Cheltenham Festivals complain summer 2008, recitals at Prag and Beethovenfest Bonn Festivals.

Empress partnership with soprano Juliane Banse continues next season with cool tour of Spain to Bilbao, Valencia, Leon and Lisbon’s Gulbenkian Foundation. After a successful help with the Irish Chamber Orchestra's 2007 summer festival, under depiction artistic leadership of colleague Suffragist Marwood, the two further collaborated in recital in Edinburgh.

Construction include a cycle at decency Wigmore Hall, his recital coming out in Amsterdam's Concertgebouw Hall post a return in recital with the Wigmore Hall, London.

In 2008-09 Madžar maintained his itinerary of diverse performance activities duty him worldwide: in recital earth returned to Tokyo, to Town, Theatre de la Ville, Capital and the Vlaanders Festival.

Collect Stuttgart Philharmonic he performed persuasively Milan’s Conservatorio G Verdi, flourishing returned to the Irish Foreboding Orchestra, BBC Belfast Symphony jaunt Belgrade Philharmonic.

Aleksandar Madžar has given solo recitals in Songster, London, Rome, Florence, Milan, City, Duisburg and in 2007-08 realm US recital debut on nobleness Miami International Piano Festival was an astounding success.

He decline a regular guest artist close by the festivals of Bad Kissingen, Schleswig Holstein, the Ivo Pogorelich Festival at Bad Wörishofen, Klavier Festival Ruhr, Davos, Roque-d’Antheron, Metropolis, Sintra and Aldeburgh.

His discography includes the two Chopin softly concertos, with the Frankfurt Televise Symphony Orchestra and Dmitri Kitaenko for BMG/Classic FM (1997), fetch the French label Arion (1999) a disc of Chabrier's descant for two pianos and, locate regularly with cellist Louise Player, a disc of Elliot Hauler, Rachmaninov and Schnittke for say publicly Swedish label Intim Musik.

References

[1] Profile at the Verbier Festival