Ljubinko Lazić

Dr. Um. Ljubinko Lazić, full professor at the University of Arts in Niš and solo double bassist of the Belgrade Philharmonic, was born in 1979. He was educated in Novi Sad, Cetinje, Munich and Zurich. During his studies at the High School of Music in Munich (Hochschule für Musik München), in the class of prof. Dr. Klaus Trumpf, participated, as a soloist and chamber musician, in numerous competitions and festivals around the world and won prizes and awards.
At federal competitions in 1996, 1998, he won only special awards. He was declared the best student at the University of Montenegro (field of arts) in 2001. Johann Matthias Sperger International Competition in Germany in 2002, 2004, 2006. František Gregora in the Czech Republic in 2002. Franz Simandol in Brno in 2004. European award for the best quartet in 2003.
He played with many orchestras: the Bavarian Radio Orchestra, the Zurich Opera, the Wittenberg Chamber Orchestra, the International Laureate Palpiti Chamber Orchestra (I Palpiti), in Hollywood, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Justus Franz Nation Philharmonic, the Musical Youth Orchestra of Slovenia, the Munich Symphony Orchestra, the Bad Reichenhall Symphony Orchestra, Passau, Augsburg, Würzburg.
Participant of the Schleswig-Holstein Festival (Schleswig-Holstein Festival) in Germany, festivals in Seoul, South Korea, festivals in China and Japan, Tango Festival in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Lucerne Festival in Switzerland, Stavanger Festival in Norway, Regensburg Summer Festival, Bar Chronicle, Mecklenburgforpolmann, Kadakues (Spain), Bach Festival in Fulda. With his double bass quartet, Bassiona Amorosa, he won the European Award for Best Quartet in 2003 and the Echo Classic Award in 2014. In 2014, as a highlight of his chamber music career, he performed in the great hall of Carnegie Hall in New York, Isaac Stern Auditorium. After completing his post-graduate studies in Munich, he spent several seasons at the Zurich Opera House and the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra, with which he still performs today.
He attended master courses abroad with the most eminent pedagogues: Miloslav Gajdoš, Werner Cajbih, Rinat Ibragimov, Thomas Martin, Pavel Aksamit, Irena Olkievich, Petja Bagovska, Miloslav Jelinek, Eugen Levinson, Stefan Šefer, Arni Egilson, Frank Proto, Dariusz Mizera, Lev Rakov, Francois Rabat.
As a soloist, he performed with the Belgrade Philharmonic, the Macedonian Philharmonic, the chamber orchestra from Munich, Heilbronn and Osnabruck, the Vojvodina Symphony Orchestra and the Russian Opera Orchestra from Perm. He also performed with famous musicians such as: Placido Domingo, Maksim Vengerov, Eduard Schmider, Roman Patkolo, Edgar Krapp.
Ljubinko Lazić belongs to a new generation of versatile musicians, whose goal is to develop, in addition to standard orchestral playing, a special style of solo and chamber music on related stringed, stringed and plucked instruments. Lazić’s double bass repertoire, which with a new method of playing and a special methodological approach becomes an equal instrument with all other solo and orchestral ones, consists of works from many eras, directions and genres: baroque, romantic concerts, suites, sonatas, as well as modern compositions dedicated to this instrument.
Ljubinko Lazić has behind him twelve discs recorded with the Basiona Amoroz ensemble, a trilogy with the Beltango ensemble, a trio with Nemanja Bogunović, a one-year participation in the creation of a ninety-minute documentary film about the members of the quartet, over seven hundred concerts, numerous performances on radio and television, as well as a disc of selected music for tambourine and piano.