Dejan Lazic receives the ECHO Classic Award 2009 in the category 'Best piano concerto recording 20th and 21st century" for his recording of Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2

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Dejan has just concluded a highly successful 12-concert national tour of Australia with the Australian Chamber Orchestra led by Richard Tognetti performing and recording Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4. He is currently staying down under for additional concerts at the Vasse Felix Festival in Western Australia and for performances of Rachmaninov's 'Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini' in Sydney Opera House and Melbourne Arts Center. 

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Some nice news for the composer Dejan Lazic: he has just completed his arrangement of the Brahms Violin Concerto for Piano and Orchestra - after Bach and Beethoven, who did the same with their Violin Concertos, here we have now the third great "B" with such an arrangement.
The World Premiere was on 1 October 2009 in Atlanta, USA. The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under their music director Robert Spano joined Dejan and repeat the concert on October 2 & 3.

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The CD got also a lot of attention in Great Britain: in the February issue of "Classic FM" magazine, Dejan and his Rachmaninov Concerto with LPO is Orchestral Disc of the Month!

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Dejan's new CD with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Kirill Petrenko has just been released on Channel Classics: Rachmaninov's famous 2nd Piano Concerto, recorded live at the Royal Festival Hall in London last May, is being paired with his "Moments Musicaux" op. 16. The disc has already got rave reviews - please check March editions for reviews and portraits in "Stereoplay" (it is CD of the Month!), "Fono Forum", "Kultur Spiegel", "Piano News", "Süddeutsche Zeitung", "Musik & Theater"... On January 27 the disc will be presented on ZDF, Germany's national TV station with Dejan performing live in the studio.

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