Stefan Petrović was born in Belgrade, Serbia. He started playing piano at the age of six and by the time he was in his early teens began encountering success at piano competitions. Some of the prizes he won in these years include 1st prizes at the Young Pianist competition in Niš, Serbia, international competition Citta di Stressa in Italy and international competition Petar Konjovic in Belgrade. In 1995 he won Young Musician of the Year prize and was awarded the prestigious October Prize of the city of Belgrade. In the years that followed, he played numerous concerts in Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia both as a soloist and a member of a piano trio.

In 2002 Stefan came to the Netherlands where he studied at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague and completed his bachelor and master’s degree studies in the class of Naum Grubert. Over the years he also took part in masterclasses by Dmitri Bashkirov, Anton Kuerti and Jean-Yves Thibaudet. During his studies, he performed regularly as a soloist and a member of various chamber music groups, most extensively with members of Ysaye String Trio. In 2007 he performed Mozart’s Piano Concerto in D minor KV466 with Frank Zielhorst and orchestra of the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. 

After his studies Stefan continued to perform in the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Spain, and Germany, and begun a research project into nineteenth-century performance practices. Some of Stefan’s notable public appearances include performances of Beethoven’s Triple Concerto op.56, with Gordan Nikolić, Celine Flamen and Orquestra de Cambra Illa de Menorca, and Liszt’s Piano Concerto No.1 with Kenneth Montgomery and orchestra of the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. Stefan also performed in various festivals such as Amsterdamse Cello Biennale and Festival de Musica de Mao. His research is a part of a doctoral trajectory at Leiden University and focuses on the use of flexibility of rhythm and tempo in performance of the nineteenth-century repertoire.