Musicians

Pianist Pedja Muzijevic has performed with the Atlanta Symphony, the Residentie Orkest in The Hague, Milwaukee Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Dresden Philharmonic, Shinsei Nihon Orchestra in Tokyo, Orquesta Sinfonica in Montevideo, Zagreb Philharmonic, Boston Pops, Greensboro Symphony, Santa Fe Pro Musica, Napa Valley Symphony and the Richmond Symphony, among others. He has played solo recitals at Alice Tully Hall in New York, Casals Hall and Bunka Kaikan in Tokyo, Teatro Municipal in Santiago de Chile, Da Camera of Houston, The Frick Collection in New York, National Gallery in Washington, DC, Lincoln Center’s “What Makes It Great Series” in New York, for Arizona Friends of Chamber Music in Tucson, Lane Series at University of Vermont, the Aldeburgh Festival, Great Britain, and many others. His Carnegie Hall concerto debut playing Mozart Concerto K. 503 with Oberlin Symphony and Robert Spano was recorded live and has been released on the Oberlin Music label.

Mr. Muzijevic’s 2011/12 season included a solo recital at the Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival in Kalamazoo, MI, return to Zagreb Radio Symphony Orchestra with conductor Thomas Sanderling in Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto no. 2, two weeks of performances of Bach’s Branderburg Concertos on harpsichord with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, a Schubert program on a copy of 1820’s fortepiano for Da Camera of Houston and the chamber version of Mozart’s Piano Concerto K. 415 on a copy of a 1790’s fortepiano for the Helicon Foundation in New York, return to Stanford "Lively Arts" with the St. Lawrence String Quartet, as well as concerts at The Broad Stage in Santa Monica, CA, Ringling International Arts Festival in Sarasota, FL. The Morgan Library in New York, as well as Vanguard Concerts in Dayton, OH.

Pedja Muzijevic made his Atlanta Symphony debut in the summer of 2009, playing Mozart Piano Concerto K. 466 with Grant Llewellyn and was immediately re-engaged for his subscription debut in 2010, playing Mozart Piano Concerto K. 453 with Gilbert Varga. He made his St. Paul Chamber Orchestra debut in 2009 playing Berg Chamber Concerto with violinist Steven Copes and conductor Douglas Boyd. Mr. Muzijevic also returned to Lane Series at University of Vermont in Burlington, VT with a solo recital, performed a song recital with baritone Simon Keenlyside for Lincoln Center’s Great Performers series at Alice Tully Hall in New York and returned to Spoleto USA Festival in Charleston, SC.

His many festival engagements encompass, among others, performances at Tanglewood, Spoleto USA, Mostly Mozart, Newport, OK Mozart, Bridgehampton, Bay Chamber Concerts, San Miguel de Allende, Aldeburgh, Lucerne, Holland, Melbourne, Aix-en-Provence, Dubrovnik, Merano and Bratislava Festivals. He has toured with Mikhail Baryshnikov and the White Oak Dance Project throughout the United States, South America, Europe and Asia and with Simon Keenlyside in Trisha Brown’s staged version of Schubert’s Winterreise at Lincoln Center in New York, Barbican in London, La Monnaie in Brussels, Opera National de Paris, as well as in Amsterdam, Lucerne and Melbourne.

Mr. Muzijevic’s solo recording entitled Sonatas and Other Interludes is available on Albany Records. It juxtaposes music for prepared piano by John Cage with composers ranging from W. F. Bach and D. Scarlatti to F. Liszt and R. Schumann. In addition to his live Carnegie Hall concerto recording, Mr. Muzijevic’s discography includes two CDs for Helicon on fortepianos – A Schumann Salon and Mozart and Beethoven Quintets for piano and woodwinds.