Dorian Leljak
Serbia/Croatia
Dr. Dorian Leljak is Piano Professor at the Royal College of Music in London and at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad. He is the President of the World Piano Teachers Association (WPTA), the World Piano Conference (WPC), the WPTA International Piano Competition (WPTA IPC), Artistic Director of the International Isidor Bajic Piano Competition, Honorary President of the European Piano Teachers Association – EPTA Voyvodina, Executive Director of the Panopticum Musicum/Musica Ricercata Music Schools and Southeast Europe Representative for the ABRSM (London).
Dr. Leljak has won several international piano competitions (Rachmaninov Competition, Novi Sad Piano Competition) and has been awarded numerous prizes, including Yale University Mary Clapp Howell, Irving Gilmore and Parisot Prizes as well as the University of Novi Sad Merit Award,. Dorian Leljak has studied with Arbo Valdma and Boris Berman (DMA, Yale University) and enjoys successful career worldwide as a recital pianist, soloist with orchestras and as a chamber musician, establishing collaborations with cellist Istvan Varga and Pianists Ninoslav Zivkovic, Tijana Andrejic and Aleksandar Djermanovic. In 2002 he made his debuts in Carnegie Hall and Boston Philharmonia Hall.
Dorian Leljak frequently presents masterclasses and lectures worldwide and adjudicates international piano competitions such as Cleveland International Piano Competition, Top of the World Piano Competition Tromsø, Parnassos Monterey, Young Musicians Enschede, Scriabin Grosseto, Fausto Zadra, Neue Sterne Wernigerode, Carl Filtsch Sibiu, Spanish Composers Las Rozas, Euregio Geilenkirchen, Baltic Gdansk, Monopoli Barletta, Chopin Rome, Concours International de Piano de Lyon, Santa Cecilia Porto, Brescia Classica, amongst others.