Aleksandar Hadži-Djordjević
Aleksandar Hadži-Đorđević was born in Belgrade, where he studied guitar with prof. Nada Kondić. He made his debut in 1980 at the age of 16, performing Joaquín Rodrigo’s “Concerto de Aranjuez” with Zagreb Symphonists and Uroš Lajovic at the Lisinski Concert Hall. In 1984, he won the first place at International Guitar Competition in Kutná Hora, Czech Republic.
He studied guitar at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague with prof. Štěpán Rak and prof. Martin Mysliveček and graduated with distinction in 1987.
Aleksandar Hadži-Đorđević‘s prolific and versatile career has been flowing equally successful in two directions – as a guitar teacher and as a concert performer. He has taught guitar at Music schools “J. Slavenski”, “V. Lisinski” and “D. Jenko” in Belgrade. Many of his pupils have won highest prizes at guitar competitions and some of them are now accomplished artists and professors of guitar at universities of Europe and USA.
Aleksandar is frequently invited to participate in juries at Serbian and international guitar and chamber music competitions. He has been rewarded for his pedagogical work by The Association of Music and Ballet Schools of Serbia, and also by Assembly of the City of Belgrade.
He has built a prominent career as a solo artist, performing in Serbia, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Croatia, Cyprus, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, but also, as a chamber musician, performing in a duo with his colleague prof. Srđan Tošić. His performances were praised by the critics for his “beautiful, colorful tone, musicality and intuition that is seldom heard” (Politika, February 2005). Aleksandar Hadži-Đorđević received his PhD degree at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade in June 2015.