Ohrid summer
Festival

Ksenija Jankovic is born 1958 in a family of musicians.
Mesmerized by the cello, she started to play
when she was 6. Her first professors were her father
Pavle Jakovic and Janko Ristic. Since her age
of 9 she debuted with the Belgrade Philharmonics.
She continued her education in the Central Music
School at the Moscow conservatorium at the classes
of Stefan Kalyanov and Mstislav Rostropovich.
She studied at Pier Furnie in Switzerland and Andre
Navara in Germany. After winning national and
international awards, in 1981 she won the First
place at the famous contest Gaspar Cassado in
Firenza, at which moment starts her international
affirmation. Her collaboration with Sandor Vega
and Gerg Shebok inspires her deeply and eternally.
The solo concerts of Ksenija Jankovic in Paris, London, Berlin and Moscow, as well as her
performances with great orchestras such as the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Budapest
Philharmonics, Moscow Philharmonics, Radio Berlin orchestra, Copenhagen and Madrid,
critics described as touching and unforgettable. Ksenija Jankovic is a guest of great international
festivals in Austria, Switzerland, England, Germany and Korea. She is a dedicated
chamber musician and plays with musicians such as Gideon Kremer, Andreas Schiff, Heinz
Holliger and Tabea Zimerman.
Since 1990 she works as a professor of cello and chamber music at the High school of music
in Virzburg, and since 2004 she teaches at the High school of Music in Detmold.
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.
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.
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.