Maja Bogdanović

Maja Bogdanović (born Маја Богдановић, 1982 in Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia, holds also French nationality) is a Paris based cellist

After having won, last October, the Safran Foundation Prize, the Serbian cellist Maja Bogdanovic gave a recital at the Carnegie Hall. 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 of Krszysztof Penderecki's Second Cello Concerto with the composer conducting. Following this, Maja toured Mexico with Aguascalientes and Monterrey orchestras, gave recitals in the French Polynese, concert in the Salle Pleyel 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 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 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 and Alain Meunier, clarinettists Philippe Berrod, Sandrine Vasseur as well as string quartets Talich and Ebene.

Maja Bogdanovic was born in Belgrade, Serbia 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.

External links

• Personal webpage
• Cassado Cello Competition Japan
• Great Mountains Music Festival

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