Dejan Lazić is a Croatian pianist, conductor, and composer admired for his fresh interpretations of piano repertoire. He is also in high demand as a recording artist and appears on over 20 albums as an accompanist, soloist, and chamber music collaborator. He was born in Zagreb in 1977 to a musical family, and he spent his childhood in Salzburg. He attended the Mozarteum, where he studied composition, clarinet, and piano. He became inspired to compose after seeing Miloš Forman's 1984 film Amadeus. In 1991, Lazić made his recording debut as both a clarinetist and a pianist, on t...