List of Serbian musicians
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- Ernest AčkunErnest AckunErnest Ačkun was a Yugoslav / Slovenian clarinetist.-Early life:Ernest Ačkun was born in Hrastnik, Slovenia, which was then part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia....
- Dorde Balasevic
- Isidor BajićIsidor BajicIsidor Bajic was a Serbian composer, pedagogue, and publisher.He was born in Kula...
- Radmila BakočevićRadmila BakocevicRadmila Bakočević , is a Serbian operatic soprano who had a major international opera career that began in 1955 and ended upon her retirement from the stage in 1982...
- Petar BergamoPetar BergamoPetar Bergamo graduated from the Belgrade Music Academy , where hestudied composition with Stanojlo Rajičić and conducting with Živojin Zdravković...
- Stanislav BiničkiStanislav BinickiStanislav Binički , was a Serbian composer, conductor, and pedagogue.Binički, who was born in Jasika, Kruševac, is considered to be one of the most famous representatives of Serbian classical music...
- Dejan BogdanovićDejan BogdanovicDejan Bogdanovic is a Serbian violinist.Bogdanovic comes from a family in which art has always been a way of life. His grandfather, a famous sculptor from Belgrade, graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Paris and there met Pablo Picasso with whom a long and profound friendship was formed...
- Dušan BogdanovićDušan BogdanovicDušan Bogdanović is a Serbian-born American composer and classical guitarist. He has explored musical languages which are reflected in his style today: a unique synthesis of classical, jazz and ethnic music...
- Maja BogdanovicMaja BogdanovicMaja Bogdanović is a Paris based cellistAfter having won, last October, the Safran Foundation Prize, the Serbian cellist Maja Bogdanovic gave a recital at the Carnegie Hall...
- Rudolf BrucciRudolf BrucciRudolf Brucci , was a composer of Croatian and Italian origin, born in Zagreb. He was married to the famous Yugoslavian opera singer, Olga Brucci....
- Bruno BrunBruno BrunBruno Brun was a Yugoslavian clarinetist and professor at the Academy of Music in Belgrade.-Education:...
- Biserka CvejićBiserka CvejicBiserka Cvejić is a famous Serbian opera singer and university professor.She sang in the Metropolitan Opera , Covent Garden , Wiener Staatsoper , La Scala , as well as in Belgrade, Zagreb, Moscow, St. Petersburg and other major opera houses in the world.She is a member of the Association of...
- Miroslav ČangalovićMiroslav CangalovicMiroslav Čangalović was a Serbian opera and concert singer and is considered to be one of the greatest basses in Serbian and Yugoslav history.Čangalović was born in a small Bosnian town of Glamoč...
- Izudin ČavrkovićIzudin CavrkovicIzudin Čavrković was Bosnian classical and jazz trumpeter, member of the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra and professor at the University of Priština Faculty of Arts, Serbia and Sarajevo Music Academy, Bosnia and Herzegovina...
- Oskar DanonOskar DanonOskar Danon was a Bosnian Jewish composer and conductor.-Early life and education:Oskar Danon was born in 1913 in Sarajevo, then in the Austria-Hungarian Empire but now in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He studied music in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and Prague, Czechoslovakia, where he obtained his Ph.D...
- Dejan DespićDejan DespicDejan Despić is an internationally acclaimed Serbian composer, music theoretician, writer and pedagogue. He studied composition with Marko Tajčević and conducting with Mihajlo Vukdragović at the Belgrade Music Academy , where he later became a professor . He composed more than 170 works in all...
- Uroš DojčinovićUroš DojcinovicUroš Dojčinović is a Serbian classical guitarist.He is professor of classical guitar at the Music Conservatory "J. Slavensky" in Belgrade.-External links:**...
- Denise DjokicDenise DjokicDenise Djokic is a gifted cellist from Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is the daughter of Lynn Stodola and Philippe Djokic.Cellist Denise Djokic has been praised worldwide for her sincere, powerful interpretations, and her bold command of the instrument. Instantly recognized by her "arrestingly...
- Philippe DjokicPhilippe DjokicPhilippe Djokic is a Canadian violinist, conductor, and music educator of French birth. He became a naturalized Canadian citizen in 1990.Born in Nancy, France, Djokic was the son of a Serbian father and French mother...
- Zoran ErićZoran EricZoran Erić is a Serbian composer of modern classical music. He composes mostly in post-modern style, but also has notable works in electronic music. Erić is also well known for his music for theater....
- Marija GluvakovMarija GluvakovMarija Gluvakov - Medenica , is a Serbian pianist and piano teacher.-Education:...
- Duško GojkovićDuško GojkovicDuško Gojković , is a Serbian jazz trumpeter and composer....
- Dragutin GostuškiDragutin GostuškiDragutin Gostuški was a famous Serbian composer, musicologist, and art historian. He taught for many years at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade.-Early life and career:...
- Stevan HristićStevan HristicStevan Hristić , , was the most popular Serbian composer of the first half of the 20th century, remembered best for his technically cultivated compositions in the Neoromanticist, veristic, and Romanticist-Impressionist styles.-Biography:He conducted his primary studies in Leipzig, but also in...
- Ivan JevtićIvan JevticIvan Jevtić is a world famous Serbian/French composer and member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts...
- Jovan Jovičić
- Petar KonjovićPetar KonjovicPetar Konjović was a Serbian composer. He was born in Čurug . While a pedagogy student in Sombor, Konjovic self-taught himself the art of compositure and conducting. He finished his education at the Prague Conservatorium in 1906...
- Petar KrstićPetar KrsticPetar Krstic was a Serbian composer and conductor famous throughout Yugoslavia.Krstic studied under the Austrian composer Robert Fuchs in Vienna. He was a famed conductor and pedagogue in Belgrade as well as musical leader of Belgrade radio. His most famous operas include Zulumcar 1927 and Ženidba...
- Radomir Mihailović Točak
- Alex LifesonAlex LifesonAleksandar Živojinović, OC, better known by his stage name Alex Lifeson, is a second generation Serbian-Canadian musician, best known as the guitarist of the Canadian rock band Rush. In the summer of 1968, Lifeson founded the band that would become Rush with friend, drummer John Rutsey...
- Ljubica MarićLjubica MaricLjubica Marić was considered to be one of the most original composers to emerge from Yugoslavia. She was a pupil of Josip Štolcer-Slavenski. She was known for being inspired by Byzantine Orthodox church music...
- Stefan MilenkovićStefan MilenkovicStefan Milenković is a Serbian concert violinist and a member of the faculty at the Juilliard School and the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.-Biography:...
- Miloš MihajlovićMiloš MihajlovicMiloš Mihajlović is a Serbian pianist and university professor.- Education :...
- Božidar MiloševićBožidar MiloševicBožidar "Boki" Milošević is a Serbian clarinetist. Although he completed undergraduate and graduate studies of classical music at the Academy of Music in Belgrade, where he studied with Bruno Brun, he mostly plays folk music.He is a member of the Association of Musical Artists of Serbia and was...
- Milan MladenovićMilan MladenovicMilan Mladenović was a Yugoslav and Serbian musician best known as the frontman of Serbian art rock band Ekatarina Velika.-Early life:...
- Vasilije MokranjacVasilije MokranjacVasilije Mokranjac was a greatly influential and renowned Serbian composer.Though he was publicly recognized, Mokranjac often tried to stay out of the spotlight, being an introvert by nature and often more consumed with his work than fame. He was reluctant to follow any specific musical genre or...
- Marko NešićMarko NešicMarko Nešić is a Serbian conductor, composer, Associate Professor - Docent of Orchestration and Vice Dean at the Faculty of Arts of Priština-Zvečan and teacher at High Music School "dr Miloje Milojević", Kragujevac.-Education:He graduated from the Faculty of Music in Belgrade in the class of...
- Olivera Vojna Nešić
- Jasmina NovokmetJasmina NovokmetJasmina Novokmet is a Serbian conductor, Professor of Conducting and former Associate Dean at theUniversity of Pristina Faculty of Arts. She is a former student of Jovan Šajnović....
- Aleksandar ObradovićAleksandar ObradovicAleksandar Obradović was a Serbian 20th century composer and professor at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade. He was a Chancellor of the University of Arts in Belgrade .-External links:***...
- Tatjana OlujićTatjana OlujicTatjana Olujić is a Serbian violinist and university professor. She is a Professor at Faculty of Music Art in Belgrade having studied violin with the Professor Andre Gertler and the chamber music with the Maestro Van Den Doorn in Belgium....
- Alexander PetrovichAlexander PetrovichAlexander Petrovich was the second child of Peter the Great and his wife Eudoxia Lopukhina. Alexander was born on 13 October 1691 but died less than a year later on 14 May 1692....
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- Josif RunjaninJosif RunjaninJosif Runjanian or Josip Runjanin was a Serb composer from Croatia, most notably known for composing the melody of the Croatian national anthem and of the Serbian patriotic song "Rado Srbin ide u vojnike"...
- Marija ŠerifovićMarija ŠerifovicMarija Šerifović is a singer from Serbia. She won the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 with the song "Molitva". Šerifović was born in Kragujevac, Socialist Republic of Serbia, Yugoslavia and is the daughter of Verica Šerifović, also a notable singer...
- Verica ŠerifovićVerica ŠerifovicVerica Šerifović is a singer from Serbia, the mother and first teacher of Marija Šerifović who was the winner of Eurovision Song Contest 2007. Her father is of Serbian and Croatian descent, and her mother is of Bosniak, Macedonian and Greek extraction.Verica Šerifović's repertoire consists mostly...
- Aleksandar SimićAleksandar SimicAleksandar Simić is an accomplished Serbian composer; according to the US State Department website, he has established a reputation as one of the leading classical composers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries...
- Dejan Sinadinović
- Kornelije StankovićKornelije StankovicKornelije Stanković was a Serbian composer, said to have marked an era not only in Serbian, but also in South Slavic musical art.-External links:***...
- Kornelije KovačKornelije KovacKornelije "Bata" Kovač is a famous Serbian composer. He is a father of Aleksandra Kovač and Kristina Kovač, both successful Serbian singers.-Early life:...
- Margita StefanovićMargita StefanovicMargita "Magi" Stefanović was a Yugoslav and Serbian musician best known as a keyboardist for the Serbian rock band Ekatarina Velika.Born in Belgrade as the only child of well-known theatre and television director Slavoljub Stefanović-Ravassi and Desanka Nikolić...
- Milenko StefanovićMilenko StefanovicMilenko Stefanović is the most famous Serbian and Yugoslav clarinetist: a prizewinner in the international competitions in Moscow, Munich, Geneva and Prague, soloist who has achieved significant international career, long-time principal clarinetist of the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra and...
- Sanja StijačićSanja StijacicSanja Stijačić is a Serbian flutist and Associate Professor of Flute at the University of Pristina and University of East Sarajevo.-Education:...
- Petar Stojanović
- Jovan ŠajnovićJovan ŠajnovicJovan Šajnović was a renowned Yugoslavian conductor and university professor.-Education:Šajnović started to study music with eminent Yugoslav musicians - Emil Hajek , Ljubica Marić and Mihajlo Vukdragović...
- Miroslav Tadić
- Marko TajčevićMarko TajcevicMarko Tajčević was a Croatian and Serbian composer and musician.-Biography:Born in Osijek, Croatia on January 29, 1900, his music education began with violin studies at the Croatian Music Institution at the time the First World War broke out in Europe with Blagoje Bersa, Franjo Dugan and Fran...
- Nebojša TodorovićNebojša TodorovicNebojša Todorović is a Serbian musicologist and university professor.-Education:...
- Vladimir TošićVladimir TošicVladimir Tošić is a Serbian composer and visual artist. His works are generally composed according to very stringent minimal principles, which he refers to as "reductionist principles of composing."Tošić teaches at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, teaching counterpoint, harmony, and musical forms...
- Mihajlo VukdragovićMihajlo VukdragovicMihajlo Vukdragović was a Serbian composer and conductor, Professor at the Belgrade Music Academy and the Chancellor of the University of Arts in Belgrade.-External links:...
- Larry Vuckovich famed jazz pianist of Palo Alto RecordsPalo Alto RecordsPalo Alto Records was a jazz record label that released most of its discography in the 1980s. The label was founded in 1981 by Jim Benham, who was a Palo Alto, California resident. The artistic director was Herb Wong. In 1985 the company ceased its activities...
fame, based in the West Coast. - Alexander ZonjicAlexander ZonjicAlexander Zonjic is a professional flutist born in Windsor, Ontario, who performs both light jazz and classical compositions. Zonjic initially played guitar at age 9, and by age 15 he was lead guitarist in a local Rhythm and blues band. At age 21, Zonjic purchased his first flute from a street...
- Živojin ZdravkovićŽivojin ZdravkovicŽivojin Zdravković , a Serbian conductor, served as chief conductor of the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra and professor of conducting at the Music Academy in Belgrade. He was also a member and president of the Association of Musical Artists of Serbia.-References:*Ikonomova, V...
- Bojan ZulfikarpašićBojan ZulfikarpašicBojan Zulfikarpašić was born February 2, 1968 in Belgrade) is a Serbian jazz pianist...
- Marko Krasnić
- Ljubivoj Vujic or (Lou Vuich)
- Max von Millenkovich (1866-1945), Austrian music director, of Serbian antecedents.