Aleksandar Madžar was born in Belgrade in 1968. He started playing the piano with Gordana Malinovic at the age of six, and later studied with Arbo Valdma, Elisso Virsaladze, and Daniel Blumenthal in Novi Sad, Belgrade, Moscow, and Brussels. He won prizes at the Geneva, Leeds, Ferrucio Busoni, and Umberto Micheli International Piano competitions, and made his debut with the Berlin Philharmonic and Iván Fischer in 1990. Since then, he has performed regularly throughout Europe, enjoying a rich and varied career giving solo and chamber music recitals, as well as performing concertos with conductors André Previn, Marcello Viotti, Paavo Järvi, and Andris Nelsons.

On occasion, he tours North and South America, South Africa, the Far East, and Australia. Aleksandar Madžar is a frequent guest of Wigmore Hall, the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris, the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, and Het Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. His regular chamber music partners include the Takács Quartet, Anthony Marwood, Vilde Frang and the soprano Juliane Banse. He teaches at the Royal Flemish Conservatoire in Brussels, and at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg.