Belgrade Strings is the well known Serbian string orchestra, ensemble with a large number of international concerts and tours which were always well lauded by the audience and received positive critical reviews. Belgrade Strings’ high quality of musical performance, exceptional virtuosity and ability to communicate with the listeners, as well as personal dedication of each musician to the group sound have been constant values of the ensemble, confirmed and perfected in front of the numerous audience in the country and abroad. Orchestra performed in over 400 cities worldwide, in Great Britain, France, Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Poland, Russia, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, USA, China, Holland, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Spain, where all the concerts were praised in reviews.
Ensemble is well known in their homeland as Belgrade Strings Dušan Skovran as a token of respect towards the ensemble’s founder and first conductor, prof. Dušan Skovran, who assembled the orchestra in 1965 from the best students of the Strings Department of the Music Academy in Belgrade (today Faculty of Music). Since 1980 they have worked as professional chamber orchestra. Following Skovran’s passing, Aleksandar Pavlović took over the artistic leadership of the orchestra, and at present times the ensemble is led by Obrad Nedeljković who became its music director in 2003. Alongside standard repertoire which spreads from early baroque to contemporary music, the orchestra premiered more than 70 pieces of national composers, many of which were dedicated to the Belgrade Strings.  
The orchestra has cooperated with many great artists of our time including Shlomo Mintz, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Nigel Kennedy, Irena Grafenauer, Christopher Warren-Green, Gérard Caussé, Sreten Krstić, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Kendall Taylor, Nikolai Petrov, Jeremy Menuhin, Christian Gansch, Christian Lardé, Letizia Belmondo, Martin Hill, Francis Orval, Philippe Pierlot, James Judd, Vladimir Chernushenko, Louise Hopkins, Lutz Keller, Stefan Milenković, Patrick Messina, Kenneth Jean, Monika Leskovar, Leonid Gorohov, Pascal Gallet, Lovro Pogorelić, Denis Shapovalov, Gavriel Lipkind, Patric Aubier etc. Belgrade Strings performed on many national and international festivals, among which the Aberdeen International Youth Festival, Prague Spring International Music Festival, Istanbul International Music Festival, City of London Festival, Europe Day in St. Petersburg, Belgrade Music Festival, Dubrovnik Summer Festival, Cheltenham Festival etc.
Belgrade Strings received the October Prize of Belgrade in 1978 and in 1991. They are multiple winners of the Special Prize of Belgrade for the best concert performance in the season and also laureates of the prizes presented by the Composers Association of Serbia and national radio and TV stations. 

Pianists Sonja Lončar and Andrija Pavlović founded LP Duo in 2004. It has since become one of the most successful European chamber ensembles. Both musicians completed their undergraduate and postgraduate studies (specialized in piano duo) at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade. They further studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Rostock (Germany),  Konzertexamen (KEX) studies in piano duo with honor, in the classes of Hans-Peter and Volker Stenzl.
As solo musicians and piano duo members they won so far over 30 awards at international music competitions.
LP Duo was announced as one of the eight best piano duos on the Globe at the biggest world competition Miami Dranoff Two pianos, Florida, in March 2008. On that occasion, they gave five recitals at Miami University’s Clarke Recital Hall.
LP Duo has performed at prestigious concert halls, universities and festivals over the Europe and in USA, including their Carnegie Hall, New York, debut concert (2014).
They performed with the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, Radio-Television Serbia Symphony Orchestra and Belgrade Strings Orchestra Dušan Skovran.
Their concerts are regularly broadcast and record by radio and TV.
LP Duo gave world premières of more than 30 contemporary pieces. Many composers have dedicated their music to LP Duo.
Sonja Lončar and Andrija Pavlović are regularly invited to give master classes of piano duos and lectures about XX and XXI century piano music all over the world.
Sonja Lončar is an assistant professor of the Faculty of Music Belgrade and Andrija Pavlović is a docent of the NOVA Academy European University in Belgrade.
They are founders of the festival Keyboard Days Belgrade.
In addition to performing activities LP Duo compose music for theater, film, TV, dance choreography, visual art projects, popular music, and so on.

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