Dejan Lazic
Pianist Dejan Lazic was born in Zagreb, Croatia, and grew
up in Salzburg where he studied at the Mozarteum. He is
quickly establishing a reputation worldwide as “a brilliant
pianist and a gifted musician full of ideas and able to project
them persuasively” (Gramophone). The New York Times hailed
his performance as “full of poetic, shapely phrasing and vivid
dynamic effects that made this music sound fresh, spontaneous
and impassioned”.
As recitalist and soloist with orchestra, he has appeared at major venues in Berlin, Paris, London, Vienna, New York, Chicago, Tokyo, Buenos Aires and Sydney, and at the Edinburgh, Verbier, Huntington and Gstaad Menuhin Festivals.
Upcoming orchestral engagements include the Philharmonia Orchestra London with Vladimir Ashkenazy, the London Philharmonic, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Australian and Netherlands Chamber Orchestras, Danish Radio Sinfonietta, SWR Kaiserslautern, Norrköping Symphony, Northern Sinfonia as well as recitals at New York’s Lincoln Center, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Antwerp and the Schleswig-Holstein and Gstaad Menuhin Festivals. He has a growing following in the Far East where he returns in spring 2008 for engagements with the Sapporo Symphony, and he increasingly tours China and Korea. Alongside his solo career, Dejan Lazic is also a passionate chamber musician and shares a long-standing partnership with cellist Pieter Wispelwey. He also collaborates with Gordan Nikolic, Benjamin Schmid, Thomas Zehetmair and Richard Tognetti.
Dejan records for Channel Classics, where his latest recording of Schubert’s Sonata D960 and his earlier Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2 have earned rave reviews. With cellist Pieter Wispelwey he has released a recording of the complete works for Cello and Piano by Beethoven, which was elected by The New York Times as one of the most notable releases of 2005.
As recitalist and soloist with orchestra, he has appeared at major venues in Berlin, Paris, London, Vienna, New York, Chicago, Tokyo, Buenos Aires and Sydney, and at the Edinburgh, Verbier, Huntington and Gstaad Menuhin Festivals.
Upcoming orchestral engagements include the Philharmonia Orchestra London with Vladimir Ashkenazy, the London Philharmonic, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Australian and Netherlands Chamber Orchestras, Danish Radio Sinfonietta, SWR Kaiserslautern, Norrköping Symphony, Northern Sinfonia as well as recitals at New York’s Lincoln Center, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Antwerp and the Schleswig-Holstein and Gstaad Menuhin Festivals. He has a growing following in the Far East where he returns in spring 2008 for engagements with the Sapporo Symphony, and he increasingly tours China and Korea. Alongside his solo career, Dejan Lazic is also a passionate chamber musician and shares a long-standing partnership with cellist Pieter Wispelwey. He also collaborates with Gordan Nikolic, Benjamin Schmid, Thomas Zehetmair and Richard Tognetti.
Dejan records for Channel Classics, where his latest recording of Schubert’s Sonata D960 and his earlier Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2 have earned rave reviews. With cellist Pieter Wispelwey he has released a recording of the complete works for Cello and Piano by Beethoven, which was elected by The New York Times as one of the most notable releases of 2005.
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