The Belgrade-born pianists, Lidija and Sanja Bizjak are two exquisite musicians and their
creative individues bring out the best in them when the sisters are joined and
performing together. Both of them completed their studies at the Paris Conservatoire in
Jacques Rouvier’s class – Lidija went there after she graduated from the Belgrade
Faculty of Music, and Sanja was only 12 when she became his student.
They pursued their career mostly in France, but with constant concert activity in Italy,
UK, Spain, Japan and Serbia. Although one of Lidia’s favorite composers is Maurice
Ravel,
her first recording includes Schubert and Schumann sonatas, and the first CD Sanja made was with
Rachmaninoff’s
Etudes – Tableaux.
In 2002 they kicked off their duo career performing with the Belgrade Philharmonic
Orchestra and won two special prizes at the ARD Munich Piano Duo competition in 2005.
The most striking thing about the
Bizjak piano duo
is the 20th Century repertoire they choose to play and the way they interpret it –
breathtaking, electryfing, dazzling, inteligent and witty when needed! Whether it is
Carnival des Animaux, Stravinsky’s
Petrushka or
Rite of the Spring, or even Martinu’s
and Poulenc’s concertos the critiques have showered these two with praise.
Listen
here!