Maja Smiljanić-Radić, MMus
Maja Smiljanić Radić was born in Belgrade. She studied organ with the distinguished Professor and organist Andrija Galun at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade. She also worked with Guy Bovet, Jacques van Oortmerssen, Lionel Rogg, Jean Ferrard and Marie-Claire Alain. She made a career as a soloist, chamber and orchestra musician.
Maja Smiljanić Radić has performed with the renowned ensembles: The Ensemble for Ancient Music, St. George Strings, Serbian Radio&Television Symphony Orchestra and Choir, Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, Romanian Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonic Orchestra of Poland and choirs of Mokranjac, Braća Baruh, Liceum. She has performed at national and international music festivals: Mokranjac Days, BEMUS, Belgrade Organ Music Festival, Early Music Festival, The International Harp Festival, Jugokoncert music cycle. In summer 2009 she performed an organ recital at the Peterborough Music Festival in the UK. Next year she had a tour across the United States and Canada, playing solo recitals and piano-organ duo program with her husband, pianist, Nenad Radić. After the American tour, they had concerts in Slovenia.
Maja Smiljanić Radić has made recordings for Radio Television of Serbia, worked as a music journalist at Radio Belgrade and Studio B television, published more than 250 reviews and music critics (Naša Borba, Politika, Bestseller magazine for culture, Magazine of Musicology Institute from Leipzig, Germany).
Together with Professor Galun, she founded the Association “Ars Organi” and the first Belgrade Organ music festival, 1996. She also founded the organ festival dedicated to Johan Sebastian Bach “Do You Like Bach?” in 2007.
Maja Radić founded first Serbian organ department in music school “Stanković” which has remained the unique department in the Balkans, and wider. Maja Radić is an Organ Professor at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, head of poly-instrumental department and a former Vice Dean of the Faculty.