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, University of Arts in Belgrade, where she graduated and completed her postgraduate studies with honors. During her studies, she worked with renowned musicians including Guy Bovet (Switzerland), Jacques van Oortmerssen (Netherlands), Lionel Rogg and Marie-Claire Alain (France), and Jean Ferrard (Belgium). She built a successful career as a soloist, chamber, and orchestral musician.
Maja has performed with renowned ensembles at both traditional and international music festivals, such as Mokranjac Days, BEMUS, Belgrade Organ Music Festival, Early Music Festival, The International Harp Festival, Jugokoncert music cycle, and the International Review of Composers. She also performed an organ recital at the Peterborough Music Festival in the United Kingdom. Maja toured the United States and Canada, giving solo recitals and performing in a piano-organ duo program with pianist Nenad Radić. Following the North American tour, they also gave concerts in Slovenia.
Maja has made numerous recordings and has appeared on radio and television both in Serbia and abroad. She has also worked as a music journalist and critic, publishing numerous reviews, critiques, interviews, scripts, librettos, and original texts in both national and international magazines.
Together with Professor Galun, she founded the Association Ars Organi and the first Belgrade Organ Music Festival. She also established the organ festival “Do You Like Bach?” Maja is featured in the Serbian edition of the Who is Who encyclopedia. In 2022, she was awarded the highest national honor, the Despot Stefan Lazarević Award, for her concert dedicated to Serbian organ music. Under the patronage of the Silesian Voivodeship, she released a CD of organ music titled Pax vobiscum.
Maja Radić also founded the first Serbian organ department at the Stanković Music School, which remains the only one of its kind in the Balkans, and beyond. She is currently an Organ Professor at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade.
She is married and a mother.