GOLDBERG: DJORDJEVIC, ALEXANDER


DJORDJEVIC, ALEXANDER

DJORDJEVIC, ALEXANDER

A native of Villa Park, Illinois, Alexander Djordjevic started playing the piano at the age of three, and later attended the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) and the Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg, Germany, where he received degrees in piano performance and literature.
Alexander Djordjevic

He made his concerto performance debut with the New Philharmonic at age twelve playing Beethoven's Concerto No. 2, and has been active performing in the United States and Europe ever since. His recital and concerto performances have received acclaim for dynamic interpretations of traditional repertoire and for the introduction of pieces written by his contemporaries.

Mr. Djordjevic has participated in many piano competitions, including the 2002 New Orleans International Piano Competition; First Prize in the 2001 University of Illinois School of Music Piano Competition; the 2001 Cleveland International Piano Competition; the Nena Wideman Piano Competition in Shreveport, Louisiana (1998); Union League Civic & Arts foundation Piano Competition (Chicago, 1995); First Prize in the 1991 Grace Welsh Prize for Piano (Chicago); First Prize in the Clara Rolland Piano Competition (1992) and the Fern and John Armstrong School of Music Award for the Outstanding Undergraduate Performance (1991) at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign); First Prize in the 1990 Chicago Artists Association Competition; Winner of the State of Illinois and Regional United States (Midwest) divisions of Music Teachers National Association Piano Competition; The Verna K. Townsend Full-Tuition Scholarship, and has earned Graduate Assistantships at the University of Illinois.

In addition to winning prizes in national and international piano competitions, Alexander Djordjevic was honored as a Fulbright Scholar in 1992. As such, he had the opportunity to further his piano studies and to perform throughout Germany under the tutelage of internationally known Russian pianist and teacher Vitaly Margulis.

Djordjevic is currently working on completing Doctoral studies in Piano Performance and Literature at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) while teaching piano at his home and at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. His teachers have included Gustavo Romero, Joel Shapiro, Vitaly Margulis, William Heiles, John Wustman (accompanying), Ann Schein (Aspen Music Festival), Sally Bauer, and Gellert Modos.


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