Tamara Stefanovich

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Tamara Stefanovich is a Serbian pianist.

Born in Belgrade, Tamara Stefanovich began playing piano at age five and at 13 became the youngest student ever to attend the University in Belgrade. She subsequently studied with Claude Frank at The Curtis Institute of Music, and settled in Cologne, Germany, where she took a degree in new music at the Hochschule für Musik with Pierre-Laurent Aimard.

Over the past several years she has performed in major European venues and has worked with such important artists and composers as Pierre Boulez, George Crumb, Peter Eötvös, Richard Goode, Jonathan Stockhammer, and Dennis and Russell Davies, among others. In 2003 she joined Mr. Aimard in a concert tour of duo recitals celebrating Ligeti´s 80th birthday, and in 2005 joined him in a European tour in performances of Boulez works. Most recently, they performed at Wigmore Hall and Klavier Festival Ruhr.

Her first CD was a live recording of a Haydn Sonata and 12 etudes by Ligeti and Rachmaninov. Klavier Festival Ruhr is releasing her recordings of works by Marco Stroppa and York Holler, J. S. Bach, and Mozart. Ms. Stefanovich has won several prizes, including Vercelli "Viotti Internazionale Concorso", Chopin-Schumann Berlin, Mendelssohn-Wettbewerb, and Kitzingen "Seiler Internationaler Klavier Wettbewerb.”