Programme

Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Impromptus
No. 1, Op. 29
No. 2, Op. 36
No. 3, Op. 51
No. 4 Fantasie – Impromptu Op. 66

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Sonata for piano No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 Appasionata
Allegro assai
Andante con moto
Allegro ma non troppo

Pause

Frédéric Chopin
Ballades
No. 1, Op. 23
No. 2, Op. 38
No. 3, Op. 47
No. 4, Op. 52

Pianist ALEKSANDAR SERDAR won several international competition awards including the Monza, Carlo Zecchi and Vercelli in Italy, Palm Beach and Cincinnati in the USA and the 4th prize at the Arthur Rubinstein competition in Tel Aviv.
A native of Belgrade, Serbia, Aleksandar Serdar graduated from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad and received his Master of Music degree from the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore where he studied with Leon Fleisher for five years. Later he continued his studies with Sergio Perticaroli at the Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome. Currently, Serdar is a Professor of Piano at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade and at the Faculty of Arts in Niš, both in Serbia.
Aleksandar Serdar performed in Italy (Conservatory hall in Milano, Palermo, Venezia, Roma, Bari, Trento, Reggio, Torino), the United States (namely at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center in New York, Cincinnati, Cleveland and Washington DC), France (Musée d'Orsay, Auditorium du Louvre, Théâtre du Châtelet, Nice, Lion, Orleans, Marceille, Toulouse and Festivals such as La Roque d'Anthéron, Sully sur Loire, St. Riquier, Piano Jacobin, Radio France Montpelier), Switzerland (at the prestigious Zurich Tonehalle), Russia (Saint Petersburg, Moscow), Israel, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Slovenia (Ljubljana, Bled, Celje, Gorizia), Croatia (Zagreb and Dubrovnik Summer Festival), Brazil, Peru, Portugal (Lisbon festival), Morocco, Lebanon (Bustani Festival in Beirut), Thailand, Japan, Canada, Luxembourg, Germany (Munich, Nuremberg, Schleswig Holstein festival).
Aleksandar Serdar played with such orchestras as the Dresden Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic, Bremen Philharmonic, Slovenian Philharmonic, Sophia Philharmonic, San Jose Philharmonic, Cincinnati Philharmonic, Orchestre National de Lille, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Belgrade Philharmonic, Zagreb Philharmonic, Athens Philharmonic, Vancouver Island Symphony, Saint Petersburg Philharmonic, Israel Chamber Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Santa Cecilia and with conductors Marcello Viotti, Erich Kunzel, Emil Tabakov, Mendi Rodan, Jean-Claude Casadesus, Milen Nachev and Jansug Kakhidze.
Serdar's CD, released by EMI Classics, in 1988 arouses strong interest from promoters and the press. His second double disc has been released in Luxembourg in December 2004. He has recently recorded a first CD for the Serbian discography house PGP with an all-Baroque repertoire.