Tamara Stefanovich

Pianist Tamara Stefanovich has a broad repertory but specializes in rigorous, complex music, both contemporary (Boulez, Stockhausen) and mainstream (Bach). She has appeared widely across the U.S., Britain and Europe, and Japan. Stefanovich was born in Belgrade, then in Yugoslavia, in 1973. Her parents had no money for babysitters and took her to Belgrade Philharmonic concerts as an infant with a milk bottle: "thus food became an important part of my musical life later on," she quipped to The Cross-Eyed Pianist. Stefanovich began piano studies in Belgrade and then moved to Phi...