Musical lesson: THE SISTER’S & SON’S PLAY

Baijic-Weller

The two great pianists Agnes & Eva Bajic and Eva’s sons Emil & Max Weller perform solo and four-handed.

The sisters Agnes & Eva Bajic regularly give concerts at the “Liszt Society” in Hungary. They have been playing four-hands since childhood. Their repertoire includes pieces by Liszt, works by female composers and contemporary music. This time the will play with the two sons of Eva. Emil und Max Weller. Both are well known for their piano playing since the ORF programme “Die goldene Note”.

Agnes Bajic was born and raised in the former Yugoslavia, as a member of the Hungarian minority. She completed her piano studies with Arbo Valdma and Rita Kinka at the Music Academy in Novi Sad with a diploma in concert performance and pedagogy.
Her concert activity takes place as a soloist and chamber musician in various formations.
Agnes Bajic is a long-standing musical partner of the renowned Hungarian flutist Bela Drahos, with whom she has performed numerous concerts of chamber music works for flute and piano.
Agnes is currently a répétiteur at the University of Music in Pecs, where she is also writing her doctoral thesis on Franz Liszt.

Eva Bajic was also born and raised in the former Yugoslavia as a member of the Hungarian minority. She completed her piano studies at the University of Music in Graz with Sebastian Benda, Thomas Duis and Ayami Ikeba with a concert diploma. She received support from the Graz Cultural Department’s scholarship for gifted students, the Martha Debelli scholarship and the Forum Hungaricum.
She attended master classes with Arbo Valdma, Zoltán Kocsis, Tamás Vásáry and Lazar Bermann, among others.
She performs as a soloist and pianist in various chamber music formations, including “Ensemble für Neue Musik”, “Artresonanz” and “Ensemble Zeitfluss”, and is involved in several projects in which contemporary music is developed and performed with children and young people: “Klangnetze”, “Moment Musik”, “Kreative Musikworkshops” with VS.
She can look back on many years of collaboration with many composers, numerous world premieres, radio recordings, CD productions at the “Musikbiennale Zagreb” and at the “Steirischer Herbst”(Musikprotokoll), among others.

Max (*21 May 2004) and Emil Weller (*8 June 2007) were born in Graz to Eva Bajic from Hungary and a German father.
German in Graz. Both grow up bilingual, in their third language,
piano music, from around the age of four by their parents, who are both pianists (mother
both pianists (mother: classical, father: jazz). At the age of five, they were both accepted into the gifted class at Graz University of Music, where they were initially taught by Maria Zgubic, and since September 2013 their joint teacher has been Prof Zuzana Niederdorfer. The piano is the centre of life for the children and their family, but they also have many other interests. They have won numerous prizes. Max graduated with honours from the Akad. Gymnasium in 2022 and is now studying jazz piano at the KUG Graz with Prof. Olaf Polzien.
Emil is currently in year 7 at the Akademisches Gymnasium in Graz.

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From 11:00 – 14:00 there will be a pop-up shop by the illustrator Edith Weiss: NICE LITTLE GIFTS

Edith Weiss was born Edith Holler-Schuster in Klöch, Southern Styria in 1950.
Her creativity allowed her to acquire various artistic skills at different stages of her life, which led her to graphic art and illustration. The resulting pictures cover a wide range of topics: topical, touching, critical, emotional …

Edith Weiss
IM SOMMERWIND
18 x 13 cm, print