50 godini Festival Ohridsko leto
July 21 2010 (Wednesday)
12 ¼óëè - 20 àâãóñò 2010
50 Years Ohrid Summer Festival
July 12 - August 20, 2010
Program: Schumann, Rachmaninoff
Ksenija Jankovic is born 1958 in a family of musicians. Mesmerized by the cello, she started to play when she was 6. Her first professors were her father Pavle Jakovic and Janko Ristic. Since her age of 9 she debuted with the Belgrade Philharmonics. She continued her education in the Central Music School at the Moscow conservatorium at the classes of Stefan Kalyanov and Mstislav Rostropovich. She studied at Pier Furnie in Switzerland and Andre Navara in Germany. After winning national and international awards, in 1981 she won the First place at the famous contest Gaspar Cassado in Firenza, at which moment starts her international affirmation. Her collaboration with Sandor Vega and Gerg Shebok inspires her deeply and eternally. The solo concerts of Ksenija Jankovic in Paris, London, Berlin and Moscow, as well as her performances with great orchestras such as the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Budapest Philharmonics, Moscow Philharmonics, Radio Berlin orchestra, Copenhagen and Madrid, critics described as touching and unforgettable. Ksenija Jankovic is a guest of great international festivals in Austria, Switzerland, England, Germany and Korea. She is a dedicated chamber musician and plays with musicians such as Gideon Kremer, Andreas Schiff, Heinz Holliger and Tabea Zimerman. Since 1990 she works as a professor of cello and chamber music at the High school of music in Virzburg, and since 2004 she teaches at the High school of Music in Detmold. Nenad Lečić was born in 1979 in Čačak, Serbia. He has been involved in music since the age of five, and gave his first piano recital and performance with orchestra at the age of eleven. Since that time he won 6 major national competitions. As a twelve-year old he became the youngest student with a special status in the history of Belgrade Music Academy, where he studied with Igor Lasko. At this time he gained the “RAI-Award for the European Top Talent”. During those years of intense performing and broadcasting activity in Serbia he gave a large number of concerts, including participation at all major homeland music events and cooperation with all major orchestras, such as Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra and Belgrade Radio Orchestra, as well as many chamber orchestras. In 1993 he recorded his first LP with works by Bach, Scarlatti, Haydn, Chopin and Rachmaninow. Nenad has been living in Germany since 1993. He graduated at the Musikhochschule in Cologne in 1998 at the age of 19. Three years later he gained M. A. in classes of PierreLaurent Aimard and Arbo Valdma, pursuing at the same time studies in new piano music. He presently works at the Musikhochschule in Detmold and participates extensively in musical life of Germany and other European countries, which included performances at the Ruhr Piano Festival, Cologne Philharmonic Hall, broadcasts for WDR, ORF and BR. In September 2008 he performed the German premiere of Johannes-Maria Staud’s Concerto for 2 Pianos and Orchestra, with Bamberg Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jonathan Nott.
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St. Sophia, 9:00 p.m.
KSENIJA JANKOVIC, cello NENAD LECIC, piano