Bio

Lucija Majstorović, Croatian pianist, pays special attention to contemporary and chamber music. After winning prizes at contemporary music competitions in France and Italy, she was invited to take part in major festivals such as Music Biennale Zagreb, Jeunesses Musicales Poland, Chamber music festival Trame Sonore in Italy, Classiche ForMe festival by Beatrice Rana, Bari Piano Festival, Busoni - Mahler Festival. She premiered works by Azio Corghi, Louis Andriessen, Georg Friedrich Haas, Davorin Kempf, Sara Glojnarić and many more.

In 2020 she started working as a collaborative pianist at the prestigous Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, where she had an opportunity to work with Alessandro Carbonare, Andrea Oliva, Guglielmo Pellarin, Giovanni Sollima, Sonig Tchakerian and Andrea Zucco. Previously she worked as an official pianist of Giampaolo Pretto’s master course “Dentro il Suono”.

Regarded as a prodigy child, she held her first recital at the age of 8 and performed as a soloist with orchestra at the age of 11. Holding more than 20 prizes at international competitions such as Carl Czerny Prague, EPTA Belgium, ITAKA Slovenia, Bösendorfer Vienna, eventually she dedicated her life to promoting contemporary music and joining chamber music ensembles. In 2016 she was a laureate and a winner of multiple prizes at Concours Répertoire Pianistique Moderne in Paris, and in 2020 she was a winner of Reate Festival Contemporary Music Competition.

As a chamber musician, she collaborated through Europe with artists such as Zoltan Kocsis, Andrea Lucchesini, Christian Lindberg, Simone Bernardini, Berislav Šipuš, Igor Lešnik, Ivana Bilić. She also performed as a soloist with Croatian Radiotelevision Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonic Orchestra of “Arena di Verona” Foundation, Orchestra da Camera di Mantova, Orchestra Senzaspine and Orchestra da Camera di Imola.

After obtaining her Master’s degree from the University of Zagreb under Katarina and Vladimir Krpan, she moved to Italy to study piano with Federico Gianello, Bruno Canino and Emanuele Arciuli. In 2019, she graduated with highest marks cum laude from Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and in 2021 at Parma Conservatory where she studied with Trio di Parma.

She is a member of HEFEST Piano Quartet, eclectic chamber music group that blends old and new by focusing on seldom performed alternative repertoire, including contemporary works, hoping to change the general perception of classical music.