Faculty of Music University of Arts in Belgrade

Faculty of Music University of Arts in Belgrade

Lidija Stanković received her BA degree in piano at the Music academy in Ljubljana and her master degree at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade. She is the winner of numerous national and international awards (two October Awards, Emil Hajek Award, Prešern Award) and also winner of international competitions in Senigalia and Stresa. She performed numerous recitals and played with the Belgrade, Zagreb and Slovenian Philharmonic, the Symphony orchestra of RTV Ljubljana, the Dubrovnik Festival Orchestra, the Orchestra of Brussels Television, the Chamber Orchestra of Novi Sad, The Belgrade String Orchestra Dušan Skovran, the Sting Orchestra St. George, and others, in Serbia and abroad (Italy, Belgium, Austria, France, Holland, Poland, Germany, Great Britain). The major part of her repertoire was recorded for radio and TV studios of the abovementioned countries. Her fertile artistic career has been fully realized in wide range of performances with outstanding European and Serbian artists, such as David Porcelijn, Ronald Zollmann, Wolfgang Redik, V. Šturc, P. Visanen, Aleksandar Madžar, Aneta Ilić, Bojan Suđić, and many others. Stanković’s enthusiasm, openness and inquisitiveness in performing European and Serbian contemporary music has made her one of the most influentialinterpreters of contemporary pianistic literature.

Bearing in mind the scope of her artistic career, that fact that Lidija Stanković is even to the greater extent accomplished as a piano teacher. During thirty years she patiently, diligently, unobtrusively is building up the image of the most loved and most required teaching class of the Piano department. For years the best ranked candidates from the entrance exam “wait in a line” for entering her class. She has earned this reputation with her charismatic artistic-pedagogic personality, psychological astuteness, vast knowledge, continual need for searching and discovering, constant care for each and every aspect of the development of young talents’ complex personalities. All Lidija Stanković’s students play with intelligence, delicacy, stylistically precise, constantly advancing forward in remarkably huge steps.

Influence, respect and charisma of Lidija Stanković are best reflected in last year’s University of Arts jubilee-Grand Plaque for great achievements in arts and artistic education.