Nenad Lecic

Nenad Lečić was born in 1979 in Čačak, Serbia. He has been involved in music since the age of five, and gave his first piano recital and performance with orchestra at the age of eleven. Since that time he won 6 major national competitions. As a twelve-year old he became the youngest student with a special status in the history of Belgrade Music Academy, where he studied with Igor Lasko. At this time he gained the "RAI-Award for the European Top Talent". During those years of intense performing and broadcasting activity in Serbia he gave a large number of concerts, including participation at all major homeland music events and cooperation with all major orchestras, such as Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra and Belgrade Radio Orchestra, as well as many chamber orchestras. In 1993 he recorded his first LP with works by Bach, Scarlatti, Haydn, Chopin and Rachmaninow.

Nenad has been living in Germany since 1993. He graduated at the Musikhochschule in Cologne in 1998 at the age of 19. Three years later he gained M. A. in classes of Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Arbo Valdma, pursuing at the same time studies in new piano music. Broadcasting and concert performances in Serbia, Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Austria. Masterclasses with Peter Eötvös, Vladimir Krainev, Alexander Lonquich, Andras Schiff.

He presently works at the Musikhochschule in Detmold and participates extensively in musical life of Germany and other European countries, which included performances at the Ruhr Piano Festival, Cologne Philharmonic Hall, broadcasts for WDR, ORF and BR, as well as frequent premiering works of contemporary composers.
In September 2008 he performed the German premiere of Johannes-Maria Staud's Concerto for 2 Pianos and Orchestra, with Bamberg Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jonathan Nott.