Friday, 13 October, Atrium of the National Museum at 8 P.M.

The Artistic Ensemble of the Ministry of Defence “Stanislav Binički“
Conductor: Vesna Šouc-Tričković
Aleksandra Kinđić, Oboe
Dušan Panajotović, Violin
Uki Ovaskainen, Piano

Music of Ivan Jevtić

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Ivan Jevtic was born in Belgrade. He won honours and postgraduate degrees from the Academy of Music in that city in the composition class of Stanojlo Rajičić (1973). He took advanced classes with Olivier Messiaen at the Paris Conservatory and with Professor Alfred Uhl in Vienna. He has been the laureate of several international composition competitions, and his works have been performed by eminent musicians ( including Maurice André, André Navarra, Gerard Caussé, André Henry, Gene Pokorny, Manfredo Schmiedt, Pascal Gallet, Eric Fritz, Stephen Burns, , Roberto Gatto, Roberto Duarte, Eric Aubier, Radovan Vlatković, Thierry Escaich, , Mira Yevtich, Irena Grafenauer, Xenia Jankovich, Aleksandar Madzar, Marielle Nordman, Svetlana Tirmenstajn, Mladen Djordjević, Bernard Soustrot Bojan Sudjić, Guy Touvron…), all over Europe, in North and South America, Russia, Japan and China. He has sat on several international juries where his compositions have been selected as set pieces ( Paris, Narbonne, Lunéville, Belgrade, Arles and Geneva).

From 1997 to 1999 he taught composition and orchestration at the Federal University of Pelotas (R.S) in Brasil.

Ivan Jevtic composed more than 100 works, notably chamber music, concertante compositions (more than twenty concertos for various instruments) and symphonic works. His compositons have been published in Paris by the famous Editions A. Leduc, G. Billaudot and Chant du Monde, as well as by the Swiss Editions Bim. His music can be heard on over 20 CDs edited in Serbia, France, Germany, Sweden, USA, Japan…

In 2003 he was elected member of the Serbian Academy of the Sciences and Fine arts- SANU in Belgrade.