Dejan Lazic
| Pianist Dejan Lazić was born into a musical family in Zagreb, Croatia, and grew up in Salzburg, Austria, 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”. After a highly successful Edinburgh Festival recital, The Scotsman wrote recently: "Dejan Lazić shines like a new star!" As recitalist and soloist with orchestra Dejan Lazić has appeared at major venues in Europe, North and South America, Asia, and Australia, and has been invited to numerous international festivals. In Spring 2008 he gave his orchestral debuts at New York’s Lincoln Center with the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iván Fischer and at London’s Royal Festival Hall with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Kirill Petrenko. He also gave recital debuts at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, London Queen Elizabeth Hall, and in Istanbul. In Summer 2008 he performed Beethoven's 3rd Piano Concerto at the Beijing Great Hall of People in a televised pre-olympic gala concert for an audience of 7,000. He also performed very successfully with the Philharmonia Orchestra under Vladimir Ashkenazy, City of Birmingham Symphony under Giovanni Antonini, Bamberg Symphony under Jonathan Nott, Atlanta Symphony under Robert Spano, Swedish Radio, Indianapolis, and Sapporo Symphonies, as well as with the Seoul, Hong Kong, and Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestras. Other orchestral engagements lead him to the BBC Symphony in London, Danish National Symphony in Copenhagen, Residentie Orkest in The Hague, Orquesta Ciudad de Barcelona, Seattle Symphony, and MDR Symphony in Leipzig. With Basel Chamber Orchestra and Giovanni Antonini he performs on tour, among others, at the Vienna Konzerthaus, Munich Herkulessaal, Cologne Philharmonie, and Brussels Palais des Beaux Arts. From the 2008/09 season Dejan Lazić is “Artist in Residence” with the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra in Amsterdam. He also enjoys a growing following in the Far East to where he returned in Spring 2009 for engagements with Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo (Suntory Hall & Metropolitan Art Space) and for a series of recitals throughout Japan and at the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing, China. In November 2009 he toured Australia with the Australian Chamber Orchestra led by Richard Tognetti, including concerts at the world famous Sydney Opera House. In early 2010 he will be touring Japan with the NHK Symphony Orchestra and in the following season he will be touring South America, China, and Korea with the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iván Fischer. Alongside his solo career Dejan Lazić is also a passionate chamber musician. He works regularly with artists such as Benjamin Schmid, Gordan Nikolić and Richard Tognetti. Dejan Lazić records exclusively for Channel Classics and has released a dozen of recordings so far. The first volume of his new "liaisons" series with works by Scarlatti and Bartók was released in 2007 to great critical acclaim; the 2nd volume with a Schumann/Brahms programme has just been released, the 3rd volume with a C.P.E. Bach/Britten programme will be released in 2010. In Fall 2008 he released a disc with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Kirill Petrenko playing Rachmaninov's famous 2nd Piano Concerto - a live recording that has earned rave reviews from critics and audiences worldwide and in addition it won the prestigious German Echo Klassik Award 2009. Dejan Lazić is also active as a composer. His works include various piano compositions, chamber music (including String Quartet op. 9, written for Mstislav Rostropovich's 70th birthday gala), and orchestral works, as well as Cadenzas for Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven Piano Concertos. In the 2007/08 season he premiered his piano cycle "Kinderszenen – Hommage à Schumann" op. 15 at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. His arrangement of Brahms’s Violin Concerto for piano and orchestra saw its World Premiere in October 2009 in Atlanta, USA, where it was recorded for Channel Classics with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Robert Spano. |
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Dejan Lazić explains rearranging Brahmsflash video, ±18 minutes |
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