Alisa
Besevic-Busslechner

Alisa Besevic-Busslechner was born in Belgrade (Serbia) in 1969. She grew up in a family of nationally renowned musicians, painters and poets from Serbia.
From the very beginning, she received her training from internationally renowned piano teachers and pianists. Her playing technique and musical imagination were particularly influenced by the Russian piano school, which she was able to learn from Prof. Konstantin Bogino from Moscow between 1981 and 1989. She received her first university diploma as a certified musician-pianist in his class at the Belgrade University of Arts, Faculty of Performing Arts.

She continued her piano studies at the University Mozarteum Salzburg in the class of Prof. Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, where she graduated as Magistra der Künste in 2007.
Her busy concert schedule (piano recitals, concerts as a soloist with orchestra and as a chamber musician) has taken her not only to all the countries of the former Yugoslavia but also to Germany, Italy, France, Austria and the Dominican Republic.

She gained her first experience as a répétiteur as a student, where she supported the singing class of Prof. Cornelia Prestel from 1991 to 1994, and from 1994 to 2012 at the Landesmusikschule Enns, where she accompanied numerous students of all instruments.
Since 2001 she has regularly supported the trombone class of Prof. Josef Kürner as a pianist. Since 2008 she has been employed as a répétiteur at the Institute for Brass Instruments and Percussion at the Anton Bruckner Private University, where she works with Prof. Josef Kürner and Prof. Wilfried Brandstötter, Tuba.
As a repetiteur at the ABPU she was able to accompany many students on their way, who are now successful in a wide variety of orchestras and as professors - including Johann Reiter, Emil Haderer, Andreas Eitzinger, Gerald Pöttinger, Raphael Strasser, Ines Zeitlhofer, Lukas Gassner, Ulrich Gruchmann, Thomas Brunmayr, Markus Nimmervoll, Christine Schauer, Stefan Huber, Manuel Mayer, Matthias Haslinger, Roland Eitzinger and Jakob Wenigwieser.  

She has been teaching piano since 1995, initially (until 2012) at the Upper Austrian Regional Music School, and since 2012 as a university lecturer at the Institute for Keyboard Instruments at the Anton Bruckner Private University, supplementary subject Piano, focus on Vocal and Instrumental Accompaniment and Correpetition Practice.

Alisa Besevic-Busslechner has been married to Mario Busslechner since 1994. Their daughter Marianna was born in 1999, who, as a flutist and art lover, continues the family tradition in the best possible way.