Thursday, 11 October 2018, City Hall at 8 PM
Concert of young artists
Viktor Radić, Piano
Milena Damnjanović, soprano
In cooperation with Art Centre Guarnerius
Free entrance

Viktor Radić was born in Novi Sad (1996). He started studying piano at the Ivana Branovački class at the Isidor Bajić Music School in Novi Sad, and continued his education in the class of Srđan Dalagija. He is the laureate of the international contests of Nikolai Rubinstein in Paris, Virtuosi per musica di pianoforte in Usti nad Labem, EPTA competition I. Rijavec in Idrija, San Don di Piave in Italy and in Serbia: Belgrade Chopin Fest, Isidor Bajić Memorial etc. This year he was awarded a scholarship by the Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe. He received the award from the Katarina Aćimović Fund of the Faculty of Music.
He won the first prize and laureate award at the International competition for young pianists Mihailo Vukdragović in Šabac. He is also awarded the Golden Ring of the City of Novi Sad for the results he achieved. He has won numerous awards at the competitions of music students in Serbia and performed at all important concert halls. As the laureate of Chopin Fest he performed at the winners concerts. His performance during last year's BEMUS when he performed in selection of the best Faculty of Music students, was extremely remarkable.

Milena Damnjanović was born in Kruševac (1994). She graduated from the Music School Stevan Hristić in Kruševac (piano and vocal singing department). She studied at the Faculty of Music where she obtained Master’s Degree from the Department of Solo Singing in the class of Violeta Pančetović Radaković.
During her studies, she won many competitions. She is the winner of the Danica Mastilović Award for the best and most promising student at the Solo Singing Department. She is the recipient of Dositej's Scholarship from the Young Talents Fund of the Republic of Serbia.
Among her performances one can point out concerts in Rome, then in Baden and Reichenau within the International Summer Academy, where she performed as a soloist accompanied by the Webern Kammerphilharmonie orchestra led by maestro Vladimir Kiradjiev.
She upgrades her skills at the workshops of the OC Ars Vocalis Academy in Rome, as well as the International Summer Academy of the mdw in Vienna (2018), at the World Festival of Youth and Students in Sochi (2017), at the workshops of the Summer Opera School at Divčibare (2017 and 2018), Summer Art School of the University of Art Grad u trouglu (Smederevo, 2015). She attended master classes of Radmila Bakočević, Nataša Jović, Nikola Kitanovski, Leonid Bomstein, Vladimir Redkin, Milena Kitić, Dubravka Zubović, Mark Goodrich, Inés Salazar, Edith Lienbacher, Ramón Vargas and Michael Schade.

Vladimir Gligorić was born in 1979, in Belgrade. His music training began at the Mokranjac Music School in Belgrade in the class of Tijana Dimitrijević. He graduated from the Faculty of Music in Belgrade in the class of Jokut Mihailović, completed his Master’s and Doctorate degrees in the class of Aleksandar Serdar and briefly studied with Elizabeth Athanassova at the Conservatory of Music in Geneva (Switzerland).
Gligorić is the laureate of the International Piano Competition In memory of Emil Gilels in Odessa (Ukraine, 2010), as well as the finalist of the international piano competitions Jeunesses Musicales in Belgrade (2009) and Bösendorfer & Schimell in Phoenix, Arizona (2011), at which he received the Special Award for the best performance of a virtuoso piece. He was awarded the annual prize of the Association of Musical Artists of Serbia for the best young artist in 2009 and for the best young artist in 2010 by the specialist magazine Muzika Klasika.
He has given numerous recitals in Serbian cities, as well as in several European cities including Rome, Geneva, Paris and Barcelona. He has performed at important festivals in Serbia, Croatia, Italy and Bulgaria.
He has performed with the Symphony Orchestra of Radio-Television of Serbia, the Belgrade Strings Dušan Skovran, the оrchestra Camerata Serbica, the Razgrad Philharmonic Orchestra and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Odessa, under the direction of Bojan Sudjić, Biljana Radovanović, Vladimir Kranjčević, Dragomir Nenov, Hobart Earl and Alexander Walker.
He has released a CD with the music of contemporary Serbian composers issued by Faculty of Music in Belgrade and a CD with the piano music of Vasilije Mokranjac issued by SANU/MASCOM (various interprets).

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