Milica Lawrence completed her piano and harpsichord studies at the Faculty of Music Arts in Belgrade, Serbia. Here, Milica specialized in chamber music and also received her Doctor of Musical Arts Degree. She attended piano and harpsichord masterclasses with many distinguished Serbian and international artists. Milica has won many prizes for solo and ensemble performances at international competitions. She has also held a great number of solo recitals and chamber music concerts both in Serbia, Italy, Switzerland, Greece, Hungary, Montenegro, Macedonia, Libya. Her recital at the Italian Cultural Centre in Tripoli is noted as the first concert by a Serbian pianist in Africa. She has participated in reviews of modern classical music as well as in festivals BEMUS, OKTOH, Cello Fest, Basomanija. Milica has taken part as an orchestra member in the Faculty of Music Arts Orchestra in Belgrade, and as a guest member in the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, Skovran String Orchestra, Schlesinger Orchestra, Mokranjac Chamber Orchestra. Throughout her career she has collaborated with many renowned artists – S. Krstic, U. Lajovic, Dmitry and Alexander Sitkovetsky, C. Z. Bornstein, M. Petrović. With the Chamber Orchestra Mokranjac, the FILUM Orchestra, and the Schlesinger Orchestra Milica performed as a soloist. At the International Competition Beogradski Pobednik in 2005, she was the only pianist who received recognition by the Russian Centre for Science and Culture in Serbia and Montenegro. Milica has worked for 15 years as an artistic collaborator at the String Department at the Faculty of Philology and Arts in Kragujevac, Serbia. ln 2019 she becomes resident of Malta and opens Malta Piano Academy in Paola, Mosta and Gozo while maintaining an active soloist career at the same time. From 2019 to 2022 she also worked at Mikiel Anton Vassalli College as a piano teacher and accompanist. ln August 2022 Milica organised the first ever Malta Piano Festival in Gozo. She is currently working on her very first digital and printed magazine in Malta “Pianist.mt”.
