Programme

Erik Satie (1866-1925)
Nocturne in B minor (1919)
Nocturne in D major (1919)
Valse-ballet in B-flat major (1885)
Fantaisie-valse in D-flat major (1885)
Gnossienne No. 4 in A minor (1891)
Gnossienne No. 5 in E minor (1889)
Rag-time Parade (1917)
Galina Nikolin, piano

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Le Tombeau de Couperin (1914–17)
Prélude
Fugue
Forlane
Rigaudon
Menuet
Toccata
Ivan Bašić, piano

Maurice Ravel
Tzigane, rhapsody for violin and piano (1924)

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Sonata for violin and piano in G minor (1917)
Allegro vivo
Intermède: Fantasque et léger
Finale: Très animé
Dušan Panajotović, violin
Aleksandra Dragosavac, piano

In cooperation with the Guarnerius Art Centre


galina-nikolin-mGalina Nikolin (2001) is a pupil of the School of Music Josif Marinković in Belgrade where she studies in the class of her mother Sandra Petković. She began with piano lessons aged six, and already as an eight-year old she performed as a soloist with the Belgrade Strings at the Kolarac Hall. Two years later she was a soloist with the Artistic Ensemble of the Army Stanislav Binički with the conductor Aleksandar Vujić. She worked with the renowned piano pedagogue Natalija Tomić, professor of the FILUM Kragujevac. So far she won many awards on Serbian and international competitions of young musicians.

ivan-basic-mIvan Bašić (1996) began his music education at the School of Music Petar Konjović in the class of Ljubinka Kujundžić. He then completed studies at the Mokranjac Music Conservatory in the class of Milica Vasiljević-Bisenić and Željka Vorkapić, graduating top of his class. He entered the Faculty of Music in Belgrade in 2013, in the class of Nevena Popović.
He was a laureate of many international competitions in Serbia and also in Rome (International Piano Competition 2013 organised by the cultural association Fryderyk Chopin) and in Radovljica, Slovenia (Chopin's Golden Ring).
In the past few seasons he gave recitals on festivals in Gmunden (Austria), Tisin cvet in Novi Kneževac, and also in Kairo and Alexandria (Egypt). He performed in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Italy, Albania, and in numerous radio and TV shows. As a soloist, he performed the Piano Concerto by E. Grieg, and in January 2015 he was a soloist in Chopin's Concerto in F minor with the Vae Soli String Quartet at the Kolarac Hall in Belgrade.
He premiered the Jewish Suite by Serbian composer Aleksandar S. Vujić with cellist Irena Josifoska.
In March 2014 he received the prize Young instrumentalist of the year of the Muzika klasika magazine, and in 2015 he received the award from the Olga Mihailović fund for the best student of the piano department.

dusan-panajotovic-mDušan Panajotović (1992) began his studies at the School of Music Predrag Milošević in his native town of Knjaževac in the class of Ognjen Rilak. He completed the Music College Vojislav Vučković in the classes of Zorica Ilić and Marko Kostić. During his elementary and secondary music education he won numerous awards and recognitions. He obtained his BA and MA degrees from the Faculty of Music in Belgrade in the class of Gordana Matijević Nedeljković and he is currently enrolled in the doctoral studies in the same class. His streak of successes continued during his student years: notably he won the First prize at the international competition of the Summit festival Burgos in Spain in 2013. He also won prizes from the funds of the Faculty of Music in Belgrade (Miodrag Macić-Mišo for the most successful student of violin in 2011/2012, Мeri Žeželj-Majer for the best student’s results at the Department for violin in 2012/2013, Meri Dragutinović for the best final exam in 2014).
He performed at the music festivals Nei Suoni dei Luoghi in Italy and BUNT in Belgrade. As a soloist, chamber and orchestra musician, he gave concerts in Macedonia (FYRM), Slovenia, Italy, Germany, France, Spain, etc. As a member of the Deutsch-Skandinavische orchestra he performed at the Berlin Philharmonic, as a principal violinist of the Young Euro Classic orchestra under Liana Isakadze he played at the Konzerthaus Berlin, as a member of the Belgrade Strings he performed in Paris at the Salle Gaveau... He attended master classes of renowned violinists such as Stefan Milenkovich, Ilija Marinković, Ivana Aćimoska-Žikić, Oleg Pokhanovski, Dragan Radosavljević etc. As a soloist he performed in all important concert halls in Belgrade: the Kolarac Hall and Kolarac Music Gallery, Ethnographic Museum, House of Đura Jakšić, Artget Gallery, Students' Cultural Centre, Guarnerius Art Centre.
Dušan Panajotović plays the violin built by Jovan Popović in 1992.

Aleksandra Dragosavac (1990) finished top of the class the School of Music Vladimir Đorđević in Belgrade, in the class of Anđelka Novaković, as well as the Music College Dr Vojislav Vučković in the class o Olga Bauer. She completed her undergraduate and MA studies at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade in the class of Nevena Popović. She attended master classes of Aleksandar Madžar, Sonja Lončar and Andrija Pavlović (LP Duo), Christopher Taylor, Cordelia  Höfer-Teutsch, Rolf Plagge, Dario Ntaca.
During her studies she won many awards in the country and abroad. She was a laureate of the Dositeja Scholarship as one of the 1000 most successful students in Serbia, as well as the prize from the Slobodanka Milošević-Savić fund for the best student of the piano department.
She performed at the Kolarac Hall and Kolarac Music Gallery, Belgrade Philharmonic Hall, Cultural Centre Banski dvor in Banja Luka (BIH), Students’ Cultural Centre, Youth Centre of Belgrade, Artget Gallery, Gallery of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Arts Centre Guarnerius.
In July 2014 she took part in the humanitarian concert for flood victims in Serbia, BIH and Croatia at the Big Hall of the Stiftung Mozarteum in Salzburg (Austria).
She teaches piano at the School of Music Vladimir Đorđević in Belgrade.