This will look like the movie “I know what you did last summer”, but… Important world events that changed every day prevented me from sending this report earlier

Last year, due to well-known reasons, the concert of young authors, the most talented artists and students of the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, was canceled. This year, however, many things became clearer and the concert was scheduled and held on June 29тх, 2021, in the hall of the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra.

This time, the young people are, despite everything in an emergency situation, managed to prepare six new compositions, so we will present them all today. The concert was opened by the youngest: Miloš Stevanović, born in 2001 in Belgrade, with his piano suite called "For the Dragons".

Then, Lazar Marić from Kruševac, also born in 2001, presented his composition “Solo song for mezzo-soprano and piano” with the help of his colleague Andjela Simić.

Then, Nikoleta Radulović, born in 2000 in Bar, with the help of her colleague with the guitar Marija Grujić, presented her composition “Vinča for soprano and guitar”.

Ana Marković, born in 2001, presented her composition for string quartet called Quartet No.1. It was performed by Miloš Stevanović, violin, Milica Kostić, violin, Ljubomir Milanović, viola and Srdjan Sretenović, cello.

Vladica Mikićević (1994) began her doctoral studies at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, where she works as a research associate. Her composition entitled “Ecstatic scenes, musical stained glass for solo piano” was performed by Ana Vasić.

The finals went to Veljko Nenadić, born in 1998 in Smederevo, a young composer who has already won numerous international awards in America, Russia, Slovenia, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic and Algeria. He is also the winner of a special award for the most promising young composer of the Association of Art Lovers.

For this occasion, he prepared “Incantations II”, two rituals for soprano, viola, piano and percussion. He was at the piano, accompanied by his colleagues Jovana Anić, soprano, Nemanja Adamović, viola, Milan Milić, percussion, and with a conducting by Bojana Radivojević.

The report on this concert was really much late, but the delay had its good sides as well. In the meantime, Veljko Nenadic won another award. Now we can present you the winning composition “Metamorphoses, Overture for Orchestra”, with which Veljko Nenadić won the competition of composers held in honor of the 75th anniversary of the International Music Youth (Jeunesses Musicales International – JMI.). His composition was performed on September 30th in Brussels by the Antwerpen Camerata Orchestra, with the conductor Dimitris Spouras. Enjoy the music:

All photos taken with the Fujifilm X-T20 camera with the Canon EFs 18-135mm f3.5-5.6 IS USM nano lens adapted to the Fuji body using Fringer adapter.