Petar Pejcic was born in 2002 in Serbia into a musical family and received his first cello lessons at the age of four. After his musical beginnings in Belgrade, he moved to Germany in 2017 to continue his education at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Academy of Music and Theatre in Leipzig with Prof. Peter Bruns.
He participated in master classes with Jan Vogler, Franz Helmerson, Joseph Schwab, István Várdai and received important musical impulses from Mischa Maisky, Wen-Sinn Yang and David Geringas, among others. Since 2015 Petar has been a regular participant in the master classes “Meisterschüler-Meister” in Neuhardenberg and the Moritzburg Festival Academy. He is a scholarship holder of the International Music Academy in Liechtenstein and regularly participates in the intensive weeks and activities of the academy held there.
Petar is a laureate of numerous national and international competitions. Thus, he won the ,,AENA Special Prize” of the prestigious “International Pablo Casal Competition” (Spain, 2020), the second prize of the “Anna Kull International Cello Competition” (Austria, 2020) and the third prize of the “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition” (Germany, 2019). Petar received further prizes and awards from “ArtLink Société Générale – Most Promising Young Musician 2018”, at the “International Alexander Glazunov Youth Music Competition”, at the “Liezen International Cello Competition”, at the “Heran Cello Competition” and won the first prize and the special prize at the Serbian State Competition in Belgrade in 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2016.
At the age of nine, Petar played his first concert in Belgrade, after which he gave several concerts and performances in Serbia, Slovenia, Russia, France, Germany, the USA, Switzerland, and so on. As a soloist he has performed with orchestras such as the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the Graz Philharmonic Orchestra, the Serbian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Stanislav Binicki Orchestra, the Belgrade Chamber Orchestra Ljubica Maric, the Camerata Balcanica and many others.
As a chamber musician he has performed with renowned artists such as Friedemann Eichhorn, Mira Wang, Pauline Sachse, Florian Uhlig and Antti Siirala. His desire to broaden his musical vision led to a special collaboration with choreographer Jacopo Godani and the Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company. The resulting work, “Hollow Bones,” illuminates the relationship between musicians and dancers from a new perspective.
In 2020, Petar accepted the role of Ambassador of the Pablo Casals Foundation. He is a scholarship holder of the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation Live Music Now, the Foundation Friends of Young Musicians and the Dr. Hübner Foundation. In 2021 he received the Günter Henle Scholarship of the Peter Klöckner Foundation.
Petar is supported by the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben since 2019 and plays a cello by Stephan von Baehr (2012, Paris) from the German Musical Instrument Fund.