Friday, 20 October, Kolarac Hall at 8 P.M.
RTS Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Premil Petrović
Stanko Madić, Violin
Brahms: Violin Concerto, D Major, Op. 77
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, B Minor, Op. 77 "Pathétique"
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Stanko Madić, born in Belgrade in 1984, is one of the most versatile artists on the European classical music scene today. His violin studies began at the age of six with Professor Robert Toškov and continued with Professor Dejan Mihailović. At the age of 14, he began his studies at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade with Professor Mihailović, ranking first in the entrance exam. He graduated three years later as the best student of his generation and was a scholarship recipient of the Meri Žeželj Majer Fund, the Republic Fund for the Development of Scientific and Artistic Youth, as well as the Royal Family of Karađorđević. At the age of 19, he earned his master's degree from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad with Professor Mihailović, where he worked as an assistant to Professor Megumi Teshima (Japan) from 2004 to 2008.
Madić received his second master's degree with distinction from the Karl Maria von Weber College of Music in Dresden with Professor Igor Malinovski. After that, he went to Nuremberg, where he was the first concertmaster of the Nuremberg State Philharmonic from 2011 to 2018, and then to Munich, where he currently lives and works as the first concertmaster of the Munich Radio Orchestra of the world-famous Bavarian Radio.
Since 2020, he has served as deputy first concertmaster of the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra at the Wagner Bayreuth Festival, which is one of the highest honors for a musician in Germany. He is a frequent guest concertmaster of the world-renowned orchestras such as the Bavarian State Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the Dresden State Orchestra, the Dresden Philharmonic. He has collaborated with world-renowned conductors and soloists (Zubin Mehta, Phillip Jordan, Christian Thielemann, Andris Nelsons, Martha Argerich, Mischa Maisky, Sergio Azzolini and others) in various roles – as concertmaster, chamber musician and soloist.
Madić is the winner of first and special prizes, as well as the title of laureate of numerous international competitions and festivals, including Jaroslav Kocijan (Czech Republic), Talent Selection (Čírenie talentov, Slovakia), Rodolfo Lipitzer (Italy), Jeunesses Musicales (Serbia), Violin in Dresden (Germany) and Valsesia Musica Competition (Italy).
During the coronavirus pandemic, he recorded his first solo CD for the BR-Klassik label with the concert ’Distant Light’ by Pēteris Vasks, accompanied by his resident orchestra of the Bavarian Radio under the direction of maestro Ivan Repušić. His performance of that concerto is considered one of the best recorded interpretations, according to the composer himself, and he received rave reviews from print and online media.
He is a permanent member of the Bavaria piano trio, together with Diana Al-Hassani (piano) and Andreas Schmallhoffer (cello), with whom he performs throughout Europe. He plays a modern violin, which was made for him by the Munich luthier Savve Girshenka, as well as on a violin by Carlo Carletti (1908), bought with the support of the Commercial Bank in Nürnberg.
Premil Petrović is founder, chief conductor and artistic director of No Borders Orchestra. He studied conducting under Professor Winfried Müller at the Academy of Music Hanns Eisler in Berlin. He was awarded the Heinrich Böll scholarship as well as the prestigious scholarship “Musiktheater Heute” of the Akademie der Deutschen Bank, which enabled him to attend interpretation courses held by the leading conductors of today. In 1996 Premil founded the music theatre at the Cultural Centre REX – one of Belgrade’s most important, politically active venues during the 1990s. Premil is one of the leading personalities in the music scene of his native Serbia. He lives in Berlin, conducts different orchestras worldwide and appears on international festivals.
His repertoire includes historical interpretations of old music, classic-romantic operas and symphonic repertoire and numerous world premieres of contemporary music. He was awarded the First Hanns-Eisler-Award in Berlin for interpretation of contemporary music. Petrović maintains a special relationship with the music of Isidora Žebeljan, one of the most famous Serbian contemporary composers. He has conducted premieres of her operas at the Bregenz Festival in Austria, Settimana Musicale – Summer Festival in Siena, Italy, at the Zagreb Music Biennale in Croatia etc. He has also recorded several releases of Žebeljan’s music. Premil often conducts experimental music theatre, like the Rimini Protokoll's piece "All Right. Good Night" or the production of Schoenberg’s “Pierrot Lunaire” directed by Bruce Labruce, both at HAU – Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin. For Bruce’s film by the same title, Premil recorded a new interpretation of Schoenberg’s music. The film premiered at the Berlinale and won a Teddy Award.
Premil worked with director Brett Bailey on the new postcolonial production of Verdi/Cassol`s opera “Macbeth” in Cape Town, South Africa. The opera was performed on some of the most important festivals in Europe and received rave reviews on Wiener Festwochen in Vienna, Festival d´Automne in Paris, Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels, Operadagen in Rotterdam, in Barbican in London, Kampnagel in Hamburg, Megaron in Athens, Lisbon, Brisbane Festival...
Premil has conducted with Vancouver Opera, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Opera Philadelphia, Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra, Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra and various European orchestras. His first recording with No Borders Orchestra is released for Universal Music/Deutsche Grammophon.
The RTS Symphony Orchestra is one of the most prominent orchestral ensembles of Serbia. Founded in 1937, as part of Radio Belgrade, the Symphony Orchestra has always had profiled artistic directions, oriented towards the affirmation and preservation of national music heritage, as well as capital works of world literature. This programme policy, established by the first conductor, Mihajlo Vukdragović, has been retained for more than eight decades that have been marked by the work of chief conductors: Mladen Jagušt, Vančo Čavdarski, and Bojan Suđić, who has been the Chief Conductor since 2005.
Throughout history, the most renowned domestic and foreign artists, solo artists and conductors have collaborated with the orchestra. The orchestra has performed at all major festivals in Yugoslavia and Serbia, and has also toured successfully across Europe and Africa. Several hundreds of recordings are permanently archived in the Radio Belgrade Sound Archive, many of which have been published on dozens of sound carriers. For achieving great success in their cultural and artistic mission, the Symphony Orchestra has won numerous relevant awards and recognitions.
Today, the RTS Symphony Orchestra operates within the RTS Music Production as a modern ensemble, keeping pace with global tendencies in the interpretation of music. Its repertoire includes significant symphonic, concert and vocal-instrumental pieces of domestic and foreign literature as well as the music of popular genres. It is actively present in concert halls, in the media and at important social events, positioning itself as a prestigious performer, ready for the highest artistic achievements.