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Pedja Muzijevic

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Pianist Pedja Muzijevic has defined his career with creative programming, unusual combinations of new and old music, and lasting collaborations with artists and ensembles. Pedja’s symphonic engagements include performances with the Atlanta Symphony, Dresden Philharmonic, Milwaukee Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, Orquesta Sinfonica in Montevideo, Residentie Orkest in The Hague, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Santa Fe Pro Musica, Shinsei Nihon Orchestra in Tokyo, and the Zagreb Philharmonic. He has played solo recitals at Alice Tully Hall in New York City; Mostly Mozart Festival Little Night Music series; 92Y and the Frick Collection in New York City; Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival in Kalamazoo, MI; Terrace Theater at the Kennedy Center; Dumbarton Oaks and the National Gallery in Washington, DC; Casals Hall and Bunka Kaikan in Tokyo; Teatro Municipal in Santiago de Chile; Da Camera of Houston; Arizona Friends of Chamber Music in Tucson; Lane Series at University of Vermont; Spoleto USA; Verbier; Bay Chamber Concerts; Aldeburgh Festival in Great Britain; and many others. His Carnegie Hall concerto debut playing the Mozart Piano Concerto in C Major, K. 503 with the Oberlin Symphony and Robert Spano was recorded live and has been released on the Oberlin Music label.

Highlights of the 2018/19 season include solo recitals in Montreal; Vancouver; Washington, DC; and for the Orchestra of St. Luke’s Bach Festival in New York City; the world premiere of Framing Time – a collaboration with dancer/choreographer Cesc Gelabert and lighting designer Burke Brown on the music of Morton Feldman for Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival in New York City, and its European premiere in Leverkusen, Germany; curating and performing a concert with the UNC Chamber Singers at CURRENT Art Space at UNC, Chapel Hill; as well as the world premiere of Jonathan Berger’s chamber opera Leonardo with Tyler Duncan, Tara Helen O’Connor, James Austin Smith, Todd Palmer, and the St. Lawrence String Quartet at New York City’s 92Y. 

Pedja’s 2018 festival season included his return to the Spoleto Festival USA both for chamber music and a solo appearance with the Spoleto Festival Orchestra and maestro Steven Sloane, Toronto Summer Music, Maverick Concerts in Woodstock, Bay Chamber Concerts in Maine, Tippet Rise in Montana, and the Verbier Festival Academy.

Highlights of the 2017/18 season include solo recitals at 92Y in New York City, Carolina Performing Arts in Chapel Hill, Mainly Mozart in San Diego, as well as a return engagement with the Zagreb Philharmonic. Combining his two passions, music and food, Pedja performed works by Ravel and Mussorgsky followed by a multicourse dinner prepared by chef David Bouley in the Bouley Test Kitchen in New York City.

Pedja has toured with Mikhail Baryshnikov and the White Oak Dance Project throughout the United States, South America, Europe, and Asia; with Simon Keenlyside in Trisha Brown’s staged version of Schubert’s Winterreise at Lincoln Center in New York City; Barbican in London; La Monnaie in Brussels; Opera National de Paris; as well as in Amsterdam, Lucerne, and Melbourne.

Pedja’s solo recordings include Haydn Dialogues (live recording of a recital program of four Haydn Sonatas interspersed with works by Jonathan Berger, John Cage, and Morton Feldman) and Sonatas and Other Interludes (juxtaposing Sonatas and Interludes by John Cage with composers ranging from W.F. Bach and D. Scarlatti to F. Liszt and R. Schumann). His discography also includes the aforementioned Mozart Piano Concerto, K. 503 with the Oberlin Symphony and Robert Spano, recorded in concert at Carnegie Hall and two CDs on 18th- and 19th-century fortepianos – a Schumann Salon and Mozart and Beethoven Quintets for piano and woodwinds.

Pedja Muzijevic was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and studied piano with Vladimir Krpan at the Academy of Music in Zagreb. He came to the United States in 1984 to continue his education at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and The Juilliard School in New York. His mentors included pianists Joseph Kalichstein and Jerome Lowenthal, harpsichordist Albert Fuller, and violinists Robert Mann and Joel Smirnoff. 

Pedja is the artistic administrator at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York City and the artistic advisor to Tippet Rise Arts Center in Montana. He also directs a residency at the Banff Centre in Canada called Concert in the 21st Century. In all of these roles, he looks at the concert experience, both in programming and presentation, and questions what can we do to make it more relevant today. He lives in New York City and, in his free time, he enjoys cooking for friends and seeing performances in all disciplines.

Meet the Musicians

FIRST VIOLIN
Carmelo de los Santos
Karen McKinnon Concertmaster Chair
Sarah Tasker •••
Assistant Concertmaster
Ana María Quintero Muñoz
Joan Wang +
Heidi Deifel ++
Juliana Huestis
Barbara Rivers
Nicolle Maniaci
Barbara Scalf Morris

SECOND VIOLIN
Rachel Jacklin •
Carol Swift •••
Julanie Lee
Jessica Retana ++
Liana Austin
Lidija Peno-Kelly
Sheila McLay
Brad Richards

VIOLA
Laura Chang
Kimberly Fredenburgh •••
Allegra Askew
Christine Rancier
Laura Steiner
Michael Anderson
Lisa DiCarlo
Joan Hinterbichler
Laura Campbell

CELLO
Amy Huzjak
Jonathan Flaksman •••

Carla Lehmeier-Tatum
Ian Mayne-Brody
Dana Winograd
David Schepps
Lisa Collins
Elizabeth Purvis

BASS
Mark Tatum •••
Katherine Olszowka
Terry Pruitt
Marco Retana
Frank Murry

FLUTE
Valerie Potter
Esther Fredrickson
Jiyoun Hur ••+
Noah Livingston ••++

PICCOLO
Esther Fredrickson

OBOE
Kevin Vigneau
Amanda Talley

ENGLISH HORN
Melissa Peña ••+
Rebecca Ray ••++

CLARINET
Marianne Shifrin
Lori Lovato •••
Jeffrey Brooks

E-FLAT CLARINET
Lori Lovato

BASS CLARINET
Jeffrey Brooks

BASSOON
Stefanie Przybylska •
Denise Turner

HORN
Peter Erb •+
Allison Tutton
Andrew Meyers
Maria Long ••••

TRUMPET
John Marchiando
Brynn Marchiando
Sam Oatts ••

TROMBONE
Aaron Zalkind
Byron Herrington

BASS TROMBONE
David Tall +
Robinson Schulze ++

TUBA
Richard White

TIMPANI
Micah Harrow •+

PERCUSSION
Jeff Cornelius
Kenneth Dean
Emily Corneliu

Principal •
Associate Principal ••
Assistant Principal •••
Assistant ••••
Leave +
One-year position ++
Half-year position +++