LIDIJA
PIANO
BIZJAK

Born in 1976 in Belgrade, Lidija Bizjak studied at the CNSMD in Paris with Jacques Rouvier and Maurice Bourgue and then perfected her skills with Ferenc Rados, Murray Perahia, Léon Fleisher, Arie Vardi. Winner of the International Competition of Dublin in 2000, she participated with the oboist Alexei Ogrintchouk in the "Rising stars" tour 2000/2001 and played on prestigious stages such as: Carnegie Hall in New York, Wigmore Hall in London, Musikverein in Vienna, Concertgebouw
of Amsterdam, the Cité de la Musique in Paris and the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. Founder of one of the most renowned piano duos in France with her sister Sanja, Lidija is also a partner of Nemanja Radulović, Régis Pasquier, David Grimal, Marina Chiche, Geneviève Laurenceau, Chanteurs des oiseaux, Anne Queffélec, Emmanuel Strosser, Claire Dé sert, Marie-Josèphe Jude, Antoine Tamestit, Xavier Phillips, Michel Strauss, Philippe Muller, Romain Guyot, Ysaÿe quartet, Terpsycordes and Parisii, quintet Moraguès. Lidija is regularly invited to the festivals of La Roque d'Anthéron and the Folles journées of Nantes and Tokyo, PROMS of London, Lockenhaus, Annecy, Lille, Open Chamber Music in Prussia Cove and she plays as a soloist with the Orchestre National de France, the Orchestre symphonique de Radio France and the Capitole de Toulouse, the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, Hong-Kong sinfonietta, Sinfonia Varsovia, Britten sinfonia, RTE of Ireland, the orchestra of Picardie, of the Pays de Savoie, of Nancy, of Mulhouse, the Pelléas orchestra…
His first album dedicated to Schubert and Schumann sonatas, released in 2006 by Lyrinx, was critically acclaimed and awarded a Diapason d'or "discovery". The two piano duo albums with his sister Sanja for "Mirare" and "Onyx" (Stravinsky's works for 4 hands and the concertos of Poulenc and Martinu with the Stuttgart Philharmonic and Radoslaw Sculz) both received the ffff from Télérama and rave international reviews including that of the prestigious "Gramophone".
After several years spent at the CRR of Caen and Lille and in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, Lidija currently teaches at the CNSM of Paris as an assistant of Emmanuel Strosser's piano class. She is also in charge of the artistic direction of the SOMUS festival in Sombor (Serbia) which has become one of the most influential in the region.