14 November 8 pm City Hall
Tijana Andrejić Tenji (Serbia) and Dorian Leljak (Serbia/Croatia) piano duo recital
Program
Antonio Vivaldi/Greg Anderson : Sento in seno ch’in pioggia di lagrime (“I feel within a rain of tears”)
Johann Sebastian Bach/ Greg Anderson : Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048
Wolfgang Amamadeus Mozart/Greg Anderson: Papageno! K 620
Johann Strauss, Jr./Greg Anderson: Blue Danube Fantasy
Tijana Andrejić Tenji
Tijana Andrejić Tenji is a pianist, a director of PaArt International Piano Competition and an Assistant Professor at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, Serbia. She took her bachelor and master degree at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad with Dr Dorian Leljak awarded with The Little Prince prize as the best student of the Music Department of the Academy. She continued her studies at the International Academy Incontri col Maestro in Italy with Maestro Boris Petrushansky.
Currently she is on her Doctoral studies at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, performing and recording complete Mozart’s Piano Sonatas, under the mentorship of Dr Dorian Leljak. Tijana won many international piano competitions such as: 1st prize at Isidor Bajić Piano Memorial, 1st prize and Laureate title at the Sirmium Music Fest, 1st prize and Laureate title at the Zagreb Music Competition etc.
She has performed in Italy, Germany, England, Estonia, Ukraine, Czech Republic in concert halls such as: Rudolfinum Dvorak Hall in Prague, Theatre Politeama in Palermo, Steinway Hall in London, Theatre Miela in Trieste, Kolarac Concert Hall in Belgrade, Theatre Bon in Udine, Bocconi University in Milano etc. She has collaborated with following conductors: Pier Carlo Orizio, Bojan Suđić, Gheorghe Costin, Ovidiu Balan and Marek Sedivy. Her repertoire extends from Bach and Handel to Stravinsky, Szymanowski and Shchedrin. She recorded a CD Serbian Piano Music for German label Acousense.
Dorian Leljak
Dorian Leljak has won several international piano competitions (including the Rachmaninov Competition – Belgrade, Novi Sad Piano Competition) and been awarded numerous prizes, such as University of Novi Sad Merit Award, Yale University Mary Clapp Howell, Irving Gilmore and Parisot Prizes.
He enjoys successful career worldwide as a pianist and has appeared in recital and with orchestras including the Windstrings Orchestra, Wyoming Symphony Orchestra, Yale Philharmonia Orchestra, Belgrade Philharmonics, Belgrade Radio-Television Orchestra, Voyvodina Philharmonics, Yale Repertory Orchestra, and many others. Dr. Leljak enjoys a successful career as a chamber musician, establishing collaborations with cellist Istvan Varga and Pianists Ninoslav Zivkovic, Aleksandar Djermanovic and Tijana Andrejic. In 2002 he made his debuts in Carnegie Hall and Boston Philharmonia Hall.
Dr. Leljak is Piano Professor at the Royal College of Music (London) and at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad. His previous engagements include teaching at the Yale School of Music. He has studied with Arbo Valdma and with Boris Berman (DMA, Yale University).
Dr. Leljak is Artistic Director of the International Isidor Bajic Piano Competition, President of the World Piano Teachers Association (WPTA), the World Piano Conference (WPC) and the WPTA International Piano Competition (WPTA IPC), Honorary President of the European Piano Teachers Association (EPTA) – Voyvodina, Executive Director of the Panopticum Musicum/Musica Ricercata/Omnibus Musicus International Music Schools, as well as Southeast Europe Representative for the ABRSM (London).
Dr. Leljak is frequently a member of the jury at many renowned international piano competitions including the Cleveland International Piano Competition (USA), Top of the World Piano Competition Tromsø (Norway), Rome International Piano Competition (Italy), Parnassos Competition (Mexico), Enschede International Piano Competition for Young Musicians (The Netherlands), International Piano Competition in Namur/Waterloo (Belgium), Grosseto “Scriabin” Competition, Chopin Mazovia Piano Competition (Poland), and EWON Cheonan Competition (Korea).
He has given master classes and lectures around the world, including the University of Pretoria, the South-African Association of Music Teachers, Conservatoire de Namur-Jambes, Chetham’s International Festival and Summer School for Pianists, Academy of Music Waterloo, Anton Bruckner Universität in Linz, Schloss Weinberg in Kefermarkt, ASIA International Piano Academy in Cheonan, EWON Cultural Center in Seoul, Scotch College in Melbourne, Elder Conservatorium in Adelaide, University of Western Sydney, major American Universities and many others.
