You know that one playlist. The one where nothing should go together — and somehow everything does.

Pedja Muzijević doesn’t build programs the usual way. No neat categories. No predictable arcs. Just pieces placed next to each other because something happens when they are. Old next to new. Familiar, then suddenly not. Something you recognize, followed by something you can’t place — but don’t want to skip.

He’s been asking the same question for years: what happens when you trust the sequence?

Stay after. It’s not a lecture. It’s more like hearing how the playlist got made.

Side A. Side B. Press play.

Side A, Side B

Mixtape with Pedja Muzijević, Piano

Sunday, March 7, 2027 at 3:00 PM
Foy Concert Hall, Moravian University
Bethlehem, PA

Pianist and curator Pedja Mužijević has defined his career with creative programming, unusual combinations of new and old music, and lasting collaborations with artists and ensembles. He has performed with the Atlanta Symphony, Dresden Philharmonic, Milwaukee Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, Orquesta Sinfonica in Montevideo, Residentie Orkest in The Hague, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Santa Fe Pro Musica and Shinsei Nihon Orchestra in Tokyo. Pedja has played solo recitals at Alice Tully Hall, 92NY and The Frick Collection in New York, Terrace Theater at Kennedy Center, Dumbarton Oaks, Phillips Collection and National Gallery in Washington, DC, Piano aux Jacobins in Toulouse, Casals Hall and Bunka Kaikan in Tokyo. His Carnegie Hall concerto debut playing Mozart Concerto K. 503 with Oberlin Symphony and Robert Spano was recorded live and has been released on the Oberlin Music label.

Pedja’s interdisciplinary projects include touring with Mikhail Baryshnikov and the White Oak Dance Project throughout the United States, South America, Europe and Asia and with Simon Keenlyside in Trisha Brown’s staged version of Schubert’s Winterreise at Lincoln Center in New York, Barbican in London, La Monnaie in Brussels, Opera National de Paris, as well as Holland, Lucerne and Melbourne festivals. In 2018 Pedja conceived and premiered Framing Time, theatrical staging of Morton Feldman’s Triadic Memories with lighting design by Burke Brown and choreography by Cesc Gelabert at Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival in New York, with subsequent performances in Germany and Spain. Combining his two passions, music and food, Pedja performed works by Ravel and Mussorgsky followed by a multi-course dinner prepared by chef David Bouley in his Test Kitchen in New York.

Highlights of 2025/26 season include Homage to Mixtapes recital program at UNLTD Powered by Verbier Festival, 92NY and Southeastern Piano Festival in Columbia, SC; Chopin and Beethoven piano concertos with Fort Worth Symphony and String Orchestra of the Rockies in Missoula, MT, as well as leading Concert in 21st Century workshops at Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, The Juilliard School in New York, Colburn School in Los Angeles.

Born in Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina, Pedja lives in New York City, where he is the artistic administrator at Baryshnikov Arts, an arts organization that supports artists in all disciplines through presentations and residencies. Pedja is also the artistic advisor at Tippet Rise Art Center in Montana, a 12,500 acre working sheep and cattle ranch with large-scale outdoor sculptures and a summer concert season. Pedja directs workshops entitled Concert in 21st Century for young musicians from Verbier Festival Academy and Banff Center to Colburn and Longy schools, in which he examines concert from perspectives of programming, stage presentation, marketing and funding in an attempt to make it more accessible and relevant today.

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