Dejan Sinadinovic was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1967, where he
took up the piano at age 6. His first public appearance, at age 9, was a
successful one, resulting as it did in his winning First Prize at the
National Competition of Young Pianists. He graduated the Belgrade Music
Academy with honors after having studied with Arbo Valdma and Jasmina
Gavrilovic. His teen years saw him study with the internationally famous
virtuoso, Eliso Virsaladze at the Moscow Tschaikovsky Conservatory. Mr.
Sinadinovic also added to his academic achievements a Masters degree, at the
University of Belgrade during the mid-nineties.
Dejan Sinadinovic won Second Prize at the Udine (Italy) International Piano Competition in 1983 and made the finals of the Yamaha International Piano Competition in Stresa four years later. In 1992, he won First Prize at the Balkaniada competition in Greece and capped the year off by being awarded the October Award for Outstanding Musical Achievements as a result of his performing the Brahms Second Concerto with the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra on national television.
The year 1997 saw the pianist add another prize to his list of honors, this at the French Piano Institute Festival in Paris, an achievement that gave him the opportunity to further concertize in Paris the following year. His repertoire includes works from Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven and ranges through such romantic composers as Chopin, Schumann, Brahms, Liszt and Franck on to music of the present day. Dejan Sinadinovic is a founder of the Belgrade Ensemble for Contemporary Music. He is also a docent at the Faculty of Music, Belgrade University and the Academy of Fine Arts.
For further details, see Dejan Sinadinovic's web site
E-mail: sinadin@eunet.yu