Maja Bogdanovic
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Paris
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based cellist
Cello
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After having won, last October, the Safran Foundation Prize, the Serbian
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cellist Maja Bogdanovic gave a recital at the Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall
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. This recital was described in The Strad magazine as "a performance of exceptional beauty of sound and a great maturity of interpretation, accompanied by a secure technique".
This season has been noted for a performance in Belgrade
Belgrade
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of Krszysztof Penderecki's Second Cello Concerto with the composer conducting. Following this, Maja toured Mexico with Aguascalientes
Aguascalientes
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and Monterrey orchestras, gave recitals in the French Polynese, concert in the Salle Pleyel
Salle Pleyel
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in Paris, and performed in London the 1st Schostakovitch Concerto, at Sydenham Music Festival. Maja followed this with tours in South Korea with pianist Masha Belooussova, she will be on tour in South America and will perform at summer festivals in Holland, France and Serbia.
In 2007, she won first prize in the Aldo Parisot
Aldo Parisot
Aldo Simoes Parisot is a Brazilian-born American cellist and cello teacher, was formerly a member of the Juilliard School faculty, and currently is serving as a professor of music at the Yale School of Music....
International Cello Competition in South Korea, second prize and the audience award at the Gaspard Cassado Competition in Japan in 2006, where she performed with Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. She was awarded the 3rd prize at the Jeunesses Musicales
Jeunesses Musicales
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competition in Belgrade in 2005, as well as 3 special prizes.
Maja has played with Serbian Radio Orchestra, Belgrade Philharmonic, Munchenner kammerorchester, St George Strings, St Bartholomew orchestra, Aguascalientes Symphony, Monterrey Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic, Wonju Philharmonic, Sejong soloists, Garde Republicaine.
Maja is very interested in contemporary music and has worked with many composers, such as K. Penderecki, S. Gubaidulina, P. Hersant, N. Bacri, I. Jevtic...
Her chamber music partners throughout many concerts and festivals include pianists Masha Belooussova, Jean Claude Vanden Eynden, Julien Gernay, Sanja and Lidija Bizjak violinists Nemanja Radulovic, Gil Sharon, Grigory Zhislin, violist Vladimir Mendelssohn, cellists Michel Strauss
Michel Strauss
Michel Strauss is a French cellist.Strauss was educated by Paul Tortelier and Maurice Gendron at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he won first prizes in cello and in chamber music, before continuing his studies at Yale University with Aldo Parisot...
and Alain Meunier, clarinettists Philippe Berrod, Sandrine Vasseur as well as string quartets Talich and Ebene.
Maja Bogdanovic was born in Belgrade
Belgrade
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, Serbia
Serbia
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in 1982. After finishing studies at the Kosta Manojlovic Music School, she went to Paris, at the age of 16, to Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse, where she graduated and won 1st prizes for cello and chamber music. In Paris, where she now lives, she studied in the class of Michel Strauss, and post graduated studies with Itamar Golan and Pierre-Laurent Aimard. She continued the studies in UDK of Berlin with Jens Peter Maintz.