Events

Exhibition “Musical Diplomacy of Yugoslavia (1945-1971)”. Authors Biljana Milanović and Ivan Hofman. Cultural Centre “Parobrod” Belgrade, 19 November – 5 December 2024. The exhibition was based on the documents from the funds of the Archive of Yugoslavia.

The electronic version of the exhibition is available in our Virtual Archive here.

The printed catalogue of the exhibition is available here.

Conference “Dragutin Gostuški’s Oblique Angle”. Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts – The Institutes, Knez Mihailova 36, Hall 102, 23-24 November 2023.

The Book of Abstracts is available here.

Roundtable “Music Festivals in Serbia between Heritage and Industries”. Participants: Sonja Marinković, Jelena Janković-Beguš, Nenad Radosavljević, Ivana Medić and Danka Lajić Mihajlović. Moderator: Danka Lajić Mihajlović. Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts – The Institutes, Hall 101, 29 May 2023.

The Roundtable was organised within Work Package 2 “Safeguarding of Music as Cultural Heritage: Aspects of Institutionalisation and Technologisation”.  

Roundtable – Book Launch. Collective monograph “The Life and Work of Rudolf Bruči: The Composer In the Rift between Aesthetics and Ideologies” (eds. Ivana Medić and Ivan Moody) and Collected Works for Voice: Vol. 1 Art Songs, Vol. 2 Chamber Music with Voice (ed. Nemanja Sovtić). Participants: Ivan Moody, Ivana Medić, Nemanja Sovtić and Bogdan Đaković. Konak kneginje Ljubice, Belgrade, 8 December 2022.

• Chris Dromey (Middlesex University, London, United Kingdom): “Rethinking Applied Musicology”. Moderator: Ivana Medić. Hall 102, 7 March 2024. Programme available here.
• Nikola Zekić (National Museum, Podgorica, Montenegro): “Singer Obrad Đurin: Musical Biography”. Moderator: Danka Lajić Mihajlović. Hall 102, 21 November 2023. Programme available here.
• Tamaz Gabisonia (Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia): “Basic Factors of Identifying Georgian Traditional Music and its Performance”. Moderator: Jelena Jovanović. Hall 102, 9 October 2023. Programme available here.
• Carsten Winter (University of Music, Drama and Media, Hannover, Germany): “Agency Festivals at the Time of Music Ecosystems”. Moderator: Marija Maglov. Room 410, 27 February 2023. Programme available here.
• Ivan Moody (CESEM, University NOVA, Lisbon, Portugal): “Censorship in Orthodox Church Music”. Moderator: Ivana Medić. Room 410, 9 December 2022. Programme available here.
• Alexandros Labridis and Aliki Gana (Polyphonic group “Chaonia”, Athens, Greece): “The Epirus Polyphonic Song and the Polyphonic Caravan as an example of good practice in the protection of cultural heritage”. Moderator: Jelena Jovanović. Translator from Greek: Gordana Blagojević. Room 410, 10 October 2022. Programme available here.

Ivana Medić’s piano recital “Sonatas and Variations Inspired by Folklore”, in honour of Professor Milanka Mišević’s 90th birthday. The Great Hall of the Kolarac Endowment, Belgrade, 15 December 2024. The concert was organised by the Centre for Music of the Kolarac Endowment, within the concert cycle “Belgrade Promenades”.

The recording of the concert is available here.

Concert “Interwoven with the Music and Dance of Burundi”. Konak kneginje Ljubice (Kneza Sime Markovića 8, Belgrade), 30 October 2023. The concert was conceived and prepared by Dr Marija Dumnić Vilotijević (ethnomusicologist). Assistants in the preparation of the programme: Dr Vanja Grbović (musicologist), Dr Marija Maglov (musicologist), Dr Miloš Marinković (musicologist), Milena Royai (translator for the French language – African dialects).

The concert booklet is available here.

Several recorded excerpts from the concert are available here.

Festive concert in honour of the anniversaries of Petar Konjović and Dragutin Gostuški. Gallery of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, 23 October 2023. The concert was organised within the scientific conference “Dragutin Gostuški’s Oblique Angle”.

The concert booklet is available here.

Concert and public forum in honour of Prof. Dr Nadežda Mosusova’s 95th birthday. Gallery of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2 October 2023. The event was organised in collaboration with the Vasilije Mokranjac Foundation and supported by the Serbian Science Fund and the Serbian Ministry of Culture.

The concert booklet is available here.

Concert “Moving Music and Dance”. Museum of African Art, Belgrade, 23 June 2023, at the opening of the exhibition “Art, in Spite of Everything – Contemporary African Art from the Collection of Ilija Gubić” (curator: Aleksandra Gačić), within the 2023 “Afro Festival”. Participants: groups of singers, musicians and dancers “Sounds of East Africa” and “NG Kids”.

The program was created and prepared by Dr Marija Dumnić Vilotijević (ethnomusicologist), with associates Dr Marija Maglov (musicologist), Dr Miloš Marinković (musicologist), and Milena Royai (translator for the French language – African dialects).

The concert booklet is available here.

Audio recordings of several numbers are available here.

Concert of soloist and chamber music of Academician Vlastimir Trajković, and the launch of his monograph “Muzika” [Music], published posthumously. Gallery of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2 February 2023. The concert was organised in collaboration with the Board for the Safeguarding of Serbian Musical Legacy of the SASA.

The concert booklet is available here.