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BOBAN BJELIC was born in Cacak, Serbia. He holds a degree from the Stankovic School of Music in Belgrade. He received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in the accordion from the Gnesinih Academy in Moscow, in the class of Prof. Friedrich Lips (1992). He also holds a degree in opera/symphonic conducting from the same Academy, having studied in the class of Prof. Pavel Lando (1995). He was awarded a scholarship for young musicians by the Ivo Pogorelic Foundation. In 1987 he won the International Accordion Competition award (Grand Prix de L’Accordion) in France. As an accordion soloist he has performed in many cities in Russia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Italy and Latin America, as well as throughout the former Yugoslavia. He was guest conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra of Peru at the festival Temporada Internacional in 1997. As a member of various bands and chamber ensembles – Tango Nova, BGV Trio, Palinxx (The Netherlands), Vlada Divljan’s Die Tonzentrale, Art Contact, Interzone – he has performed at various international festivals, including Ring Ring and Belef (Belgrade), the Sarajevo Winter Festival (Bosnia and Herzegovina), NOMUS (Novi Sad), Lent (Slovenia), the Budva Summer Festival (Montenegro), the Ohrid Summer Festival (Macedonia) and the Moscow Spring Festival (Russia). He also performed with Luciano Pavarotti at his concert in Belgrade in 2005. He is Professor of Accordion at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade (Serbia) and at the Music Academy in Cetinje (Montenegro). |
SANJA JANCIC was born in Belgrade. She studied cello with Prof. Ivan Poparic. On the recommendation of the Russian cellist Daniel Shafran, she continued her studies at the Preparatory School of the Moscow Conservatory under Prof. Gayane Mndoyan and Prof. Natalia Shahovskaya. In 1990 she graduated from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, in the class of the eminent Russian cellist and cello professor Valentin Feygin. In 1994 she continued her studies at the Royal College School of Music in London, in the class of Prof. Christopher Bunting. She obtained a master’s degree with first class honors from the Belgrade Academy of Music. She has participated in master classes with world-renowned cellists Daniel Shafran, Natalia Shahovskaya, Valter Despalj, and others. In addition to her very active solo career, in 2001 she formed the CELLO QUARTETT FEMMINE, for which she writes and arranges music, and with which she has given numerous concerts, performing at all the major music festivals in Serbia. |
KATARINA MISIC finished music school in Belgrade, Serbia. She continued her piano studies at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow under Prof. Yuri Slesarev. She completed her post-graduate studies at the Academy of Music in Belgrade, in the class of Prof. Aleksandar Sandorov. She has participated in master classes with Prof. Dmitri Bashkirov in Salzburg and Paris. In addition to performing in numerous concerts in the former Yugoslavia with, among others, the Serbian Radio-Television Orchestra, the Yugoslav Army Orchestra, and the B. Pascan Youth Orchestra, she has had many successful performances both as a soloist and with orchestras in various European cities: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Tallinn, Heidelberg, Paris. She has also given concerts in the United States, and given master classes at The Ohio State University. |
Bjelic, Jancic and Misic first began playing together as students in Moscow, and have successfully continued their collaboration in Belgrade. |
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