Education
She graduated from the Music Academy in Belgrade in and then studied at the Paris Conservatoire under Jacques Rouvier and Maurice Bourgue, winning first prizes in both piano and chamber music
She graduated from the Music Academy in Belgrade in and then studied at the Paris Conservatoire under Jacques Rouvier and Maurice Bourgue, winning first prizes in both piano and chamber music
Born in Belgrade in 1976, Lidija Bizjak began to play the piano at the age of six with Zlata Males. Meeting Ferenc Rados, Murray Perahia, Leon Fleisher, Arie Vardi, Alexander Lonquich, Ida Levin, Christoph Richter, Ksenija Jankovic, Irena Grafenauer and Sergio Azzolini, was very important for her. Lidija has given a large number of recitals and performances with orchestra like Orchestre National de France, Britten Sinfonia, Raidió Teilifís Éireann Irland, Sinfonia Varsovia, Orchestre de Capitole de Toulouse, Orchestre de Picardie, Belgrade Philharmonic.
In she was chosen by the Cité de la Musique in Paris to represent France with Alexei Ogrintchouk in the international Rising Stars Series and performed in nine of the world’s most famous concert halls including New York’s Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall in London, Musikverein in Vienna, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Palais des Beaux-arts in Bruxelles… She has participated in festivals such as Proms in London, the Open Prussia Cove et Street Magnus in Great Britain, Lockenhaus in Austria, la Folle Journée in Nantes and in Tokyo, Bemus and Nomus in Serbia, Roque d’Anthéron Colmar, Périgord Noir, Nohant, Juventus, Midem Classic in France, Martinu in Prague, Domaine Forget in Canada, Charlottesville in United States of America. Her recording of the Byzantine concerto for piano and orchestra by Serbian composer Ljubica Maric (1909–2003), made with the Serbian Radio and Television orchestra was released in.
After winning many national competitions, she won a top prize at the Dublin International Piano Competition, as well as the special prize for the compulsory modern piece. They won two special prises at the Atmospheric Reentry Demonstrator Piano duo competition 2005 in Munich and recorded two CDs – live recital for Radio France’s programme "Déclic" and an two pianos recital (Mozart, Schumann, Brahms) for the Meyer Fondation and the Paris Conservatoire. Lidija Bizjak’s first solo Civil Defense with Schubert and Schumann sonatas at Lyrinx-France label received the "Diapason Découverte" award.
