Aleksandar Serdar, piano
Aleksandar Serdar was born in 1967 in Belgrade, Serbia. He graduated in 1988 from the Art Academy of Novi Sad and received his Master of Music degree in 1991 from the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore where he studied with Leon Fleisher for five years. Later, he studied with Sergio Perticaroli at the Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome. Mr. Serdar has won several international awards including Monza, Carlo Zecchi, Vercelli-Italy, Arthur Rubenstein in Tel Aviv, Palm Beach, and Cincinnati in the USA. He has performed extensively on the international music scene. He played in Italy at the Conservatory Hall in Milano, Palermo, Venezia, Roma, Bari, Trento, Reggio, Torino; in the United States at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center in New York, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Washington D.C.; in France at Paris-Musee d'Orsay, Auditorium du Louvre, Theatre du Chatelet, Nice, Lion, Orleon, Marseil, Toulouse, and Festivals such as La Roque d'Antheron, Sully sur Loire, St. Riquer, Piano Jocobin Radio France Montpelier; in Switzerland at the prestigious Zurich Tonehalle; in Russia at Saint Petersburg festival and Moscow; and in Israel, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Slovenia (in Ljubljana, Bled Festival, Celje, Gorzia), Croatia (Zagreb and Dubrovnik Summer Festival), Brazil, Peru, Portugal (Lisbon festival Folles Journeus), Morocco, Lebanon (Bustani Festival in Beirut), Thailand, Japan, Canada, Luxembourg, Germany (Munich, Nuremberg, and Hamburg- Schleswig Holstein Musik Festival). Aleksandar Serdar has played with such orchestras as the Dresden Philharmonie, Munich Philharmonie, Bremen Philharmonie, Slovenian Philharmonic, Sophia Philharmonic, San Jose Philharmonic, Cincinnati Philharmonic, Orchestre National de Lille, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Belgrade Philharmonic, Zagreb Philharmonic, Athens Philharmonic, Saint Petersburg Philharmonic, Israel Chamber Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra di Santa Cecilia, and conductors such as Marcello Viotti, Erich Kunzel, Emil Tabakov, Mendi Rodan, Jean-Claude Casadesus, Milan Natchev, and Jeasuk Kahize. Mr. Serdar's CD release on EMI Classics in 1988 aroused strong interest from promoters and the press. His second double disc was released in Luxemburg in December of 2004. The press has praised him as an artist that is "clearly a thoughtful musician with imagination and personality." (Gramophone, February 1999). ________________
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