Education
Madžar first studied piano with Gordana Matinovic, Arbo Valdma and Eliso Virsaladze in Belgrade and Moscow, then with Edouard Mirzoian at the Strasbourg Conservatory and in Brussels with Daniel Blumenthal.
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Aleksandar Madzar
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He now holds professorships at the Royal Conservatoire, Brussels and the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Bern. Of his prize in the 1996 Leeds Piano Competition, Gerald Larner of The Times described Madžar as the most imaginative musician among the 1996 finalists. The Leeds competition propelled Madžar onto the United Kingdom scene where he also became a sought after soloist with the Royal and British Broadcasting Corporation Philharmonics, British Broadcasting Corporation Scottish Symphony, Scottish Chamber Orchestra and British Broadcasting Corporation National Orchestra of Wales, as well as throughout Europe and Asia, working with Paavo Berglund, Ivan Fischer, Paavo Järvi, Carlos Kalmar, John Nelson, Libor Pesek, André Previn, Andris Nelsons and the late Marcello Viotti.
Various select partnerships are key to Aleksandar Madžar’s current performance schedule.
Plans include a cycle at the Wigmore Hall, his recital debut in Amsterdam"s Concertgebouw Hall and a return in recital to the Wigmore Hall, London. In 2008-2009 Madžar maintained his schedule of diverse performance activities taking him worldwide: in recital he returned to Tokyo, to Paris, Theatre de la Ville, Cardiff and the Vlaanders Festival.
With Stuttgart Philharmonic he performed in Milan’s Conservatorio G Verdi, and returned to the Irish Chamber Orchestra, British Broadcasting Corporation Belfast Symphony and Belgrade Philharmonic. Aleksandar Madžar has given solo recitals in Berlin, London, Rome, Florence, Milan, Hamburg, Duisburg and in 2007-2008 his United States recital debut on the Miami International Piano Festival was an astounding success.
He is a regular guest artist at the festivals of Bad Kissingen, Schleswig Holstein, the Ivo Pogorelich Festival at Bad Wörishofen, Klavier Festival Ruhr, Davos, Roque d’Antheron, Salzburg, Sintra and Aldeburgh.
His discography includes the two Chopin piano concertos, with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and Dmitri Kitaenko for BMG/Classic FM (1997), for the French label Arion (1999) a disc of Chabrier"s music for two pianos and, working regularly with cellist Louise Hopkins, a disc of Elliot Carter, Rachmaninov and Schnittke for the Swedish label Intim Musik.
