Biography of Olivera Djurdjevic

Olivera Djurdjevic (Belgrade, January 7, 1928 – December 28, 2006) was a prominent Serbian harpsichordist, pianist, chamber musician and professor at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade. She was the first Yugoslav beekeeper to win the October Award in 1978, as well as the Seventh of July Award, plaques of the Association of Musicians of Serbia and the Association of Musicians of Yugoslavia. Olivera Djurdjevic continued her piano studies at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade in the class of Professor Emile Hayek. She graduated in 1952, after which she specialized in harpsichord with Li Stadelman at the Munich University of Music for two years.

From 1964 he was Assistant Professor and then Professor at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade. She has performed in Germany, Poland, Romania, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, the Netherlands, Italy, Russia, the USA and Canada. She has been a professor at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade since 1985, and has been actively involved in teaching at the Department of Chamber Music and Harpsichord. She was the head of the department from 1970 to 1993 and founder of the Harpsichord Studio at SKC in 1972. She also taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade. She was a member of the Piano Trio and the Piano Quartet of Radio Belgrade, ensemble Belgrade Chamber Musicians, Zagreb Soloists, Musica Humana, Trio Donne di Belgrado, as well as a piano collaborator of numerous vocal and instrumental artists