Rossi fest Belgrade

Nina has completed her basic and specialist studies of composition at Music Academy in Cetinje in the class of professor Zark Mirkovic. She graduated piano in the class of Professor Alexander Serdar, and she completed her specialist studies in the class of Professor Vladimir Bockarjev. Thanks to the scholarship Basileus she continued her studies of composing at the Music Academy in Ljubljana, in the class of professor Uros Rojko, where she gained Master's degree. She completed her PhD studies in the class of professor Srdjan Hofman, at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade.

She has been studying at numerous courses abroad with renowned international composers such as Klaus Lang, Peter Ablinger, Georg Friedrich Has, Beat Furer, Dmitry Kourliandski, Vinko Globokar, Nigel Osborn and others.

She is engaged as an associate in teaching and as a guest lecturer at the Music Academy of Cetinje.​

Withesses

The text of this piece consists of two different and quite remote texts. The first one, that the piece is named after, is a testimony of German military doctor that served on Russian front, taken from Hannah Ardent`s Eichmann in Jerusalem, and is "among the very few subjectively sincere memoirs of its kind" (The New Yorker) and the second one is Mirko Banjević`s poem Nad sobom nevječnim. The musical material is systematically organized by the looks of a keyboard and the relationship between black and white keys, where the note `D` has the `main role`. The soprano interprets the text of the poem, while the narrator delivers the textual basis of the testimony. The diligence and the simplicity of the music material, as well as the meaning and relationship of the two texts, invite the listener for inner viewing of this problematics and ethical values of that time`s individuals and society, but also of the time we live in."

Bracha Bdil, composer and pianist, born in 1988, has a B.ed in Music Education from Levinsky College and a Master's degree in Music Education and Composition from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, led by Professor Andre Hajdu, o.b.m. and Professor Haim Permont. Bracha won the first prize in the Wolf Durmashkin Composition Award, Germany, the first prize in the Yardena Alotin Composition Competition, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and a prize in the International Choral Writing Competition named after A.D Kastalsky – Moscow. Her repertoire includes orchestral music, chamber, vocal and electronic music, as well as music for dance and theatre. Her compositions have been performed around the world, including: China International Choir Festival - Beijing, Belt and Road World Choir Festival - Hong Kong, International Jewish-German Festival – Bavaria, Concert sponsored by the Russian Musical Union - Saint-Petersburg, The Schnittke Festival - Seratov-Russia, Société de Concerts de Montréal – Canada, and more. Bracha is a member of the Israel Composers' League and her works are often performed on Israeli stages and the Israeli radio. Starting from season 2018-9 Bracha has been appointed as artistic director and chief conductor of the women's Zmora orchestra in Jerusalem.

Hayom

"This day He causeth all the creatures of the universe to stand in judgment. Have mercy upon us, O Thou, who art tremendous, holy". (Jewish prayer book)

The composition Hayom is for a Tenor and Horn. It is a soloist meditative composition which is performed entirely behind the scenes in a dark hall. The soloist tenor hums pentatonic decorated melodic lines that imitate ancient 'genesis' singing. Further on a horn joins in and imitates the tenor line like an echo and creates a dialogue with it. Further on the tenor sings the words of poetry which are said on Rosh-Hashanah. This day – mining the holly important day which G-d is judging all human beings for their past acts and determines their future, for good or for bad. The composition ends with a horn blast that connotes the blowing of the shofar – the Jewish symbol of that special day - Rosh Hashanah (the first day of the Jewish New Year) - the day that human being was created and is to be judged for his acts.

Guy Ben-Tov is an Israeli born composer-performer and video artist, currently residing and studying in Austria. The conflict between the absolute power bestowed upon the artist (composer/director) and the need for collaborators (performers/actors) to achieve an artistic vision, is currently a fundamental element in his aesthetic and moral approach to artmaking. Exploring a wider definition of the relations between performer and composer, in 2018 he formed Ungrateful Ambassadors, a composer/performer duo with Mathilde Vendramin. Currently finishing his Master’s degree in Composition and Music Theater at the Kunst Universität Graz under the guidance of Prof. Beat Furrer and Bernhard Lang. During various workshops, festivals and other musical activities he had the opportunity to study with Mark Andre, Matthew Shlomowitz, Dimitra Trypani, Jennifer Walshe, Klaus Lang, Hannes Seidl, Rebecca Saunders, Milica Djordjevic and Marco Blaauw. His pieces have been performed in Israel (Va’Yissa Meshallo Va’Yomar - Modalius Ensemble at the Israeli Music Festival), Turkey (Zrima -Herzafen Ensemble in Ankara), Germany (Ḥibur-חיבור in Darmstädter Ferienkurse 2018), Austria (YomoLedeT and Song of Food-ensemble B.i.R.D as part of Obsession Zeichnen an exhibition in the BRUSEUM, Neue Galerie, Graz), Greece, and Italy.

Liebe Luise!

for Voice, Classical Guitar, Clarinet, Piano, Cello and Contrabass

The texts in the piece are from a letter written shortly after WW2 by a German friend of my great grandmother, telling her about the last days of her parents in the concentration before they were murdered. In this piece, I am trying through very limited use of the instruments to present memories as unreliable and the past as a fading image, the past can be remembered in various ways and there is never a single monolithic objective perspective. This is the first movement of a bigger project I'm working on, but it could also be performed as a self-contained piece.

His music has been described as ‘Evocative’, ‘Restrained Otherwordliness’, ‘Chilling’, ‘sophisticated and most importantly obsessive’ or ‘produces…glorious roaring sounds’ and ‘desolate monotone’. He has also been referred to as a ‘Composer of life music’.

Ben Lunn is a Mackem composer who studied in the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama under the guidance of Peter Reynolds, as well as studying in the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre with Marius Baranauskas. He has also received guidance from Param Vir. Since graduating from his Master’s he now resides in Glasgow, working in various elements including conducting, musicology, teaching and composing.

His work has been featured in many leading international festivals including Vale of Glamorgan, London New Wind Festival, Druskomanija, Leeds Leider+, Zilele Muzicale Aniversare, HASS FEST, Toronto Contemporary Music Lab, and Occupy the Pianos. He has had the privilege of working with leading international ensembles and soloists like N.A.M.E.S, Sofia Soloists, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Synaesthesis, Music Theatre Wales, Ligeti Quartet, OeNM, Ensemble X and Y, Nikolai Matsov, Rolf Hind, Francoise-Green Duo, Zubin Kanga, Martynas Levickis, JVLMA, and Jauna Muzika.

Currently, he has been made an associate artist for Drake Music. And in October he was appointed Trainee Artistic Director of the Hebrides Ensemble. Ben Lunn is also featured in the British Music Collection and the British Council’s Disability Arts Online as a featured artist. He is published by Oriana Productions​

T-4

for Violin, Cello, Alto Trombone, Motion Detection, and Electronics

T-4 makes reference to the Nazi euthanasia programme where thousands of disabled people were sterilised, experimented on, and murdered simply for being seen as 'defective'. The piece constantly references names of some of those lost and parallels them with disabled people being killed as a result of the British government's austerity measures. In short, it asks have we learnt our lesson from the past or are we repeating the same horrific mistakes?

Lazar Djordjevic was born in 1992 in Kragujevac. In 2010 he enrolled in basic academic studies of composition at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, in the class of Zoran Eric, a full-time professor. He is currently a student of the final year of doctoral academic studies. Lazar Đorđević was trained abroad by attending compositional workshops led by composers Peter Ablinger, Vinko Globokar, Stephen McNeff, Sidney Corbett, Johannes Kretz, Yann Robin... The compositions by Lazar Djordjevic were performed several times in the country and abroad. Apart from his own compositions, many of Djordjevic's orchestrations of other authors, as well as the works in the field of applied music, have been performed. For the composition Jednom sam negde čuo... for clarinet, accordion and string quartet (2016) he received an international award for the best composition at the contest New Serbian Music for the Accordion at the International Festival of Accordions Eufonija. He is a prize-winner from the Stevan Hristic Foundation in 2015 and Josip Slavenski Foundation in 2017. He is the author of the first Serbian concert for accordion and orchestra, premiered in 2017 at Novi Sad. Lazar Đorđević is currently employed as an assistant at the Department of Music Theory at the Faculty of Music Arts in Belgrade.

IV postcards from 1944

The inspiration for making this piece is the author`s first encounter with Bor`s Notebook (Bori notes) of Miklós Radnóti. This "continuous lyric report on calvary and confrontation with calvary", as said by Aleksandar Tišma in the foreword, has its culmination in four postcards from 1944. The piece is written for a reciter and chamber ensemble consisting of flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, piano, violin, viola and double bass, and the poetics of the piece is a result of the author`s exploring of sound colour and timbre of many years and of his constant search for the new means of expression.

The form of the piece depicts in its four sections each of the four Radnóti`s postcards. Radnóti`s poem that is not a part of the postcards, but has made a strong impression of the author, appears as a leitmotif of the piece.

Well known Israeli contemporary composer Anna Segal has extensive musical experience. She is working with different musical collectives and has been lucky to collaborate with the Berliner Symphonic Orchestra in Berlin and the great Israeli conductor Lior Shambadal. She composes music for orchestra, choir, quintet, suites, pieces for solo instruments, film scores as well as music for children.

One of her latest pieces has been focussed around the Holocaust. She wanted to create something important that, in artistic form, will tell the world more about this tragedy. By chance, a friend drew her attention to the poetry of Paul Celan. And the jigsaw puzzle was completed.

The poem is in narrative form and is from the perspective of the persecuted Jewish people. The poem begins with a very bright image – “black milk…” The white milk in Celan´s poetry turns black, symbolic of the world turning over to pain and horror.

The obsessive repetition of those lines being the only thing left when all capacity to think is lost in the darkness.

Celan’s poem does not have a happy end, and it cannot be in that situation, so Anna Segal decided to take a line from another well-known Celan’s poem Tenebrae for the end of this composition. In the final lines, the Jewish people ascend to “heaven”, they are next to the Lord. It seems to her that this is a symbolic end, so the last passage sound in major, as a symbol of hope and forgiveness.

When this musical piece was finished, Anna Segal played it to her grandmother Frida, who survived the Holocaust. She could not listen to the end, tears welling in her eyes. The Israeli composer will dedicate the premiere of Todesfuge at the festival to her grandmother. Anna Segal´s personal interpretation of Paul Celan´s poem is taking the listener on a journey into the memory of the Jewish people. The music is giving the poetry of Celan colour and maybe a new life.

The ensemble consists of eight to twelve singers who work as freelance soloists or belong to the Berlin opera choirs. The Synagogal Ensemble Berlin is the only ensemble in the world that brings the liturgy of Louis Lewandowski to music every Friday night, Shabbat morning and on all Jewish holidays. In his concerts with the Synagogal Ensemble Berlin, Cantor Isaac Sheffer brings this unique Jewish-German tradition into the world, with compositions by other great composers of the 19th century such as Salomon Sulzer and Samuel Naumbourg as well as from the 20th century such as Kurt Weill, Maurice Ravel, Ben Steinberg, Meir Finkelstein and others. The ensemble performs again and again in Poland, England and France.

Regina Yantian, director of the Synagogal Ensemble Berlin

Already at the age of 12, Regina Yantian became interested in organ music. At the age of fifteen, she began her education as an organist and choirmaster and subsequently studied comparative musicology and Jewish studies in Jerusalem and Berlin. Since 1998 she is organist and choirmaster of the synagogue Pestalozzistraße in Berlin-Charlottenburg.

For many years Yantian sang herself in the synagogue choir and got her artistic impulses through her work with Cantor Estrongo Nachama. She is also the director of the Synagogue Ensemble Berlin, which is known far beyond the borders of Berlin.

Yantian is particularly proud of her latest project: since 2011 she has been Artistic Director of the Louis Lewandowski Festival, inviting synagogue choirs from all over the world to dedicate themselves to Louis Lewandowski's tradition. As part of the cultural program, the municipalities have two programs to choose from European and American Synagogal Music of the 19th and 20th Century and Jewish songs from Eastern Europe and Israel.

Jewish Chamber Orchestra was founded in 2012 by Ladislav Mezei in cooperation with B'nei B'rit lodge of Serbia. The members of the orchestra are professional  musicians of Jewish descent and their friends. The JCO's primary purpose is to present the music of Jewish composers, as well as the others, whose written work was inspired by Jewish themes. Their interpretations are related to tradition, culture and history of Jewish community of Serbia.

The Baruch Brothers Choir from Belgrade was established as the Serbian-Jewish Singers Society in 1879, with the goal of cherishing and performing the cultural and artistic heritage and tradition of the Jewish people which lives in these parts. The Society changed its name in 1952 to the current name in commemoration of the three brothers from the progressive revolutionary Jewish family of Baruch, members of the resistance movement who were killed during the pogroms of the Nazi regime during the Second World War. Joshua Jacobson (Boston, USA), conductor and a renowned researcher in the field of Jewish music, has concluded that this choir is the oldest active Jewish choir in the world.

From the year of its foundation until today, the choir has held numerous concerts and participated in many competitions and festivals in the former Yugoslavia (Yugoslav Choral Festivities in Nish, Mokranjac’s Days in Negotin, BEMUS, BELEF, Choirs among the Frescoes in Belgrade and others), as well as abroad (Israel, USA, France, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Greece, the Netherlands, Hungary, Spain, UK and others). Among the most important performances of the choir, we would like to mention the concert in Carnegie Hall in 1978, as well as the attendance of our choir on numerous occasions at the most important Jewish choir festival Zimriya in Jerusalem. Our ensemble has gradually perfected its performance under the conductorship of the most eminent conductors and composers of our country (S. S. Mokranjac, J. Marinković, S. Hristić, B. Babić, B. Pašćan, A. S. Vujić, et al.), having gained under their guidance a high level of artistic interpretation and superb discipline in stage performance. The repertory of the choir consists of representative works of musical literature from both Jewish and Serbian composers, as well as all the most important works of the classical choir repertory of all styles and epochs and the works of modern composers. The Baruch Brothers Choir has been awarded two times for the cultural affirmation of its country by the presidency of Serbia, and in the past five years, the choir won many significant awards. The choir’s admirable success was largely achieved by the contribution of its conductor, Stefan Zekic, and the president, Branka Cvejic - Mezei.

Rođena je 1993. godine u Šapcu. Osnovne i master studije  solo pevanja završila je na Fakultetu muzičke umetnosti u Beogradu  u klasi prof. Katarine Jovanović sa najvišom ocenom. Proglašena je za najboljeg studenta  u akademskoj 2014/2015. godini.  Višestruki je dobitnik nagrada na takmičenjima Nikola Cvejić, Srpska solo pesma, laureat na takmičenju Lazar Jovanović. Pored mnogih koncerata koje je organizovao Fakultet, ističe se učešće na Dunav festu, Rosi festu,  a kao uspešnog studenta je nagrađuju Centar lepih umetnosti Guarnerius  i Narodna biblioteka  Srbije. U oblasti barokne muzike  usavršavala se sa prof. Erihom Trakslerom sa Univerziteta umetnosti u Beču, sa Evelin Tab, a u okviru Barokne austrijske akademije sa Kristijanom Hilcom, Robertom Mameli i Marinom Bartoli.  Na ovom kursu postaje stipendista za 2017. godinu. Izabrana je da bude polaznik majstorske radionice Vladimira Redkina, soliste Baljšoj teatra, i Dejvida Gaulenda, umetničkog direktora programa za mlade u  Royal Opera House.  Trenutno je polaznik Operskog studija Narodnog pozorišta, honorarni saradnik pozorišta Madlenianum  i Duško Radović. 

Diplomirao je na odseku za solo pevanje na Fakultetu muzičke umetnosti u Beogradu u Klasi profesora Nikole Kitanovskog. Od 2001. godine angažovan je kao stalni solista hora Braća Baruh sa kojim redovno nastupa na svim značajnim koncertima, festivalima i takmičenjima u zemlji i inostranstvu (Italija, Slovenija, Austrija, Mađarska, Švajcarska, Španija...). Kao solista je učestvovao i u snimanju dva CD-a za hor Braća Baruh izvodeći dela srpskih, jevrejskih i svetski poznatih autora. Po završetku studija pevanja dobio je nagradu Fakulteta muzičke umetnosti za najperspektivnijeg mladog pevača sa najvišom prosečnom ocenom u svojoj generaciji. Pored brojnih nagrada koje je osvojio tokom školovanja, dobitnik je i specijalne nagrade na Međunarodnom takmičenju operskih pevača Citta' di Alcamo (Italija, 2008. godine) koju mu je dodelio žiri u sastavu Richard Bonynge, Joan Sutherland, Lella Cuberli. U okviru operskog studija Narodnog pozorišta tumačio je uloge Marčela (Boemi) i Enrika (Lučija od Lamermura), kao i u praizvedbi Pučinijeve opere Il Tabarro, u  ulozi Mikelea. Od 2010. godine je solista u Narodnom pozorištu u Beogradu.

Završila je doktorske akademske studije (2015), specijalizaciju (2010) i diplomirala (2009) na studijskom programu za flautu na Fakultetu muzičke umetnosti u Beogradu, u klasi profesora Ljubiše Jovanovića. Master studije i specijalizaciju za instrument Pikola završila je u Norveškoj na Univerzitetu u Stavangeru, u klasi profesora Vidara Austvika. Dobitnica je mnogih stipendija i nagrada na festivalima, republičkim i međunarodnim takmičenjima. Redovno nastupa kao solista i kamerni muzičar u zemlji i inostranstvu. 

Kada je kao petogodišnjak, prvi put čuo i video klarinet, rekao je: "Hoću to da sviram!” U periodu od 2003-2006 uzima 14 specijanlih nagrada (100 od 100 poena) I 9 prvih nagrada. U Septembru 2006 sa svojih nepunih 15 godina odlazi u Ameriku gde nastavlja srednju skolu u prestiznoj (Interlochen Arts Academy- Michigan USA) Nikola je bio vukovac, nastavio je svoje studije sa Pr. Franklin Cohen na “Cleveland Institute of Music” u Klivlendu/Ohio. Od leta 2012 Nikola postaje profesor na Internacionalom Festivalu Kamerne muzike u Pragu po imenu AMEROPA, Sa svojom 21 godinom Nikola diplomira sa cistim desetkama i nastavlja svoj put dalje u Japan. Po njegovom povratku u Beograd on je oformio Duo Gitarinet sa kolegom gitaristom – Mirkom Dimitrijevic. Gitarinet je pobednik na RTS emisiji “Najbolji Orkestar Srbije”. Od Novembra 2016, Nikola postaje kljucni deo Jazz Improvising Orkestra pod imenom “Stegreif” – Berlin Nemacka. Kao lider duvacke sekcije u ovom kamernom orkestru Nikola je svirao desetine koncertnih turneja u 2017 i 2018 godini.

​Nikola Ulemek rođen je u Beogradu 1989. god. Osnovnu muzičku školu , OMŠ “Stanislav Binički” , završio je u klasi prof. Nenada Ivanovića, srednju školu , SMŠ “Davorin Jenko“ u klasi prof. Ljubiše Jovanovića, a osnovne i master studijezavrsio je na Fakultetu muzičke umetnosti u Beogradu kodprof. Ante Grgina, sa prosekom od 10.00 . Pohađao je master klasove Ljubiše Jovanoviće, Jan JakubaBokuna, Dr. Stephanie Zelnick, Ante Grgina, Aleksandra Tasica, Pol Majera, Bruno Di Girolamo-a, Milan Reriche, Mate Bekavca, Jonatan Cohler-a i Rocco Parisi-a. Od 2010 do 2018. godine radio kao profesor klarineta u muzičkoj školi „Vatroslav Lisinski“,a po pozivu nastupa kao bas klarinetista u Simfonijskom orkestru RTS-a i Beogradskoj Filharmoniji. Artist je firme Heni Semer Paris. U julu 2013. godine je učestvovao na festivalu „ClarinetFest“ u Asiziju (Italija) , a u decembru 2014. na 4tom Evropskom Klarinetskom Kongresu u Katovicama (Poljska).

Katarina Popović je rođena u Beogradu 1989. godine. Počela je da uči hornu u Muzičkoj školi ,,Stanković’’, gde je takođe završila nižu muzičku školu za klavir i solo pevanje, pa i srednju školu na odseku teorije muzike. 2010. ona diplomira hornu u klasi profesora Miloša Đorđevića i polaže prijemni na Univerzitetu Muzičke Umetnosti u Beogradu, gde je u klasu prima prof.Milan Radić, kod koga završava osnovne akademske studije 2014. godine. iste godine upisuje master studije kod prof. Milana Radića. Katarina je svirala u brojnim orkestarima i redovno pohađa stručne seminare. ​U Narodnom pozorištu u Beogradu od 2010., radi kao honorarni član u orkestru. Pozvana je i kao gost u Banjalučku Filharmoniju od 2011.; bila je stalan honorarni član simfonijskog orkestra radio televizije Srbije od 2012. – 2017.;  Sa svojim bras kvintetom osvojila je Laureat na festivalu kamerne muzike u Pančevu. 

Rođena je u Beogradu. Doktorirala umetničke studije violine na FMU u Beogradu, u klasi red. prof. Fern Rašković. Usavršavala se kod profesora: David Takeno, Sabinne Grollmus, Stephan Baratdue, Sreten Krstić i Mateja Marinković. Gostovala je u brojnim gradovima Srbije i inostranstva (Kina, Turska, Holandija, Velika Britanija, Francuska, Nemačka, Mađarska, Bugarska, Hrvatska, Crna Gora, Makedonija). Kao solista sarađivala je sa Niškim simfonijskim orkestrom, BGO Dušan Skovran, Kamernim ansamblom Mokranjac, Gudačima Svetog Đorđa, Jevrejskim kamernim orkestrom, Orkestrom Univerziteta u Zhuhaiu (Kina) i sa dirigentima: Nelson Leong, dr Suzana Kostić, dr Milena Injac, Stefan Zekić, Vesna Šouc i Obrad Nedeljković. Na Fakultetu umetnosti u Nišu zaposlena je od 2003. godine i trenutno je vanredni profesor violine na Katedri za gudačke instrumente. 

Nemanja Marjanovic je rodjen 1976. godine u Beogradu. Doplomirao je i Magistrirao na fakultetu Muzicke Umetnosti u Beogradu, u klasi Prof. Dejana Mladjenovica, a trenutno je student Doktorskih studija na Univerzitetu Umetnosti u Beogradu. Postdiplomske studije je zavrsio i u Madridu, na visokoj skoli za muziku Kraljica Sofia (Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia), u klasi renomiranog svetskog solo violiste, Gerard Caussea (Zerar Kosea), u cijoj klasi je Magistrirao kao student generacije na katedri, i primio licno diplomu od NJenog Kraljevskog Visocanstva Rrine Sofie. Trenutno deluje kao Docent na Fakultetu Muzicke Umetnosti u Beogradu, i na Akademiji Umjetnosti u Banja Luci,na katedri za gudacke instrumente na odseku viola.

Redovni profesor na Katedri za kamernu muziku Fakulteta muzičke umetnosti Univerziteta umetnosti u Beogradu, na kojem je završio diplomske  i poslediplomske studije, nakon čega se dodatno usavršavao na Muzičkoj Akademiji Ferenc Liszt, u Budimpešti. Bogata umetnička biografija gospodina Mezei uključuje dve sezone na poziciji solo čeliste Sarajevske opere i filharmonije, mesto stalnog člana Beogradske filharmonije i poziciju vođe grupe violončela (1975–2004), solističke nastupe sa Vojvođanskim simfoničarima, Simfonijskim orkestrom RTS i orkestrom Vojske Jugoslavije, kao i poziciju soliste i člana baroknog ansambla Muzika florida i Akademskog kamernog ansambla Jeunesse musicale, dok su naročito zapaženi i njegovi nastupi na solo resitalima širom prostora bivše Jugoslavije. Osnivač je Jevrejskog kamernog orkestra sa kojim je ostvario veliki broj koncerta.

Osnovne i master studije zavrsio je na Fakultetu muzicke umetnosti u kalsi profesora Nebojse Ignjatovica. Saradjivao je sa kamernim orkestrom Orfej, Camerata Serbica, Camerata Pancevo, ansamblom Beogradski barok, Simfonijskim orkestrom  RTS. Od 2013. godine predaje kontrabas u muzickoj skoli Dr Vojislav Vuckovic.

Igor Dražević (1989) je završio osnovne i master studije je klavira u klasi prof. Dubravke Jovičić. Trenutno je na završnoj godini doktorskih studija na Fakultetu muzičke umetnosti u Beogradu, odsek klavir, u klasi prof. Aleksandra Šandorova. Usavršavao se kod istaknutih profesora klavira: Svetlane Bogino, Vladimira Ugarkova, Aleksandra Serdara, Nevene Popović, Jokut Mihajlović, Arbo Valdme, Aleksandre Romanić, Natalije Trul i Siavuša Gadžijeva. Dobitnik je brojnih nagrada na domaćim i međunarodnim takmičenjima. Kao solista i kamerni muzičar radi na promovisanju u očuvanju muzičkog stvaralaštva domaćih autora širom Srbije i u inostranstvu. Učestvovao je na festivalima savremene muzike kao što su ,,ReConstruction” (2017), ,,KoMA” (2017, 2018), Rostrum+ (2018.)

Započinje muzičko obrazovanje u muzičkoj školi  “Vatroslav Lisinski” u klasi prof. Gorana Popovića. Srednju muzičku školu završava u klasi prof. Aleksandra Hadži-Đorđevića. Školovanje nastavlja na Fakultetu muzičke umetnosti u Beogradu u klasi prof. Vere Ogrizović gde završava i master studije.  Trenutno radi kao profesor gitare u muzičkoj školi „Vatroslav Lisinski“.