Born in Belgrade in 1988 where she starts the piano with Zlata Maleš, Sanja Bizjak  becomes a student at the Paris Conservatoire under Jacques Rouvier at the age of twelve.  Since she has been studying with Alexander Satz in Graz, Elisso Virsaladze in Munich and  Dmitri Alexeev in London and has played in master classes for Ferenc Rados, Menahem  Pressler, Maurice Bourgue, Oleg Maisenberg, Igor Lazko, Felix Gottlieb and Stanislav  Pochekin. 

After winning many competitions for young pianists, she gained 2nd prize at the 2003  «Vladimir Horowitz» competition in Kiev. Sanja has given a large number of recitals in  Europe, United States, South America and Japan and performances with Orchestre d’Avignon,  Essen and Belgrade Philharmonic, Ukraine Symphonic orchestra, Mozart virtuoso festival  orchestra in Tokyo. 

She made her Paris début in l’Auditorium du Louvre in 2006 and has participated as a soloist  since in festivals such la Folle journée in Nantes and in Tokyo, La Roque d’Anthéron,  Nohant, Auvers-sur-Oise in France, Bemus in Serbia, in Victoria Hall in Geneva, Théâtre des  Champs-Elysées, Palazzetto Bru-Zane in Venise… 

Sanja made recordings for 3Sat, BBC 3, RAI 2, SAT, TV France 3, France Musique and  Mezzo as well as her first solo CD dedicated to all S. Rachmaninov’s “Etudes – Tableaux”  released in 2013 for the French label DiscAuverS. She was laureate of the Natixis foundation  in Paris from 2005. 

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