Faculty of Music University of Arts in Belgrade

Faculty of Music University of Arts in Belgrade

Svetlana Savić (1971, Belgrade) graduated in 1998 from the Department for Composition of the Faculty of Music in Belgrade in the class of professor Srđan Hofman, received her master’s degree in 2006 in the class of professor Zoran Erić, and defended her doctoral art project “Sonnets for female voice, cello, piano and electronics” under the mentorship of professor Srđan Hofman in 2014. She has been working at the Department of Composition and Orchestration of the Faculty of Music since 1999, as a full professor since 2020. Since 2011, she has been teaching at Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Arts in Belgrade.

She won Mokranjac Award 2014, for the composition “Trapped” and the Musica Classica magazine award for the composition “About Woolves and Trains” 2016. During studies, she won two student awards at the International Review of Composers and “Vasilije Mokranjac” award in 2001. She received a scholarship from the Government of Serbia in 2002. In 2004, she received a certificate of appreciation from the Faculty of Music for her work at the Department for Composition and Orchestration.

Her compositions have been performed at festivals and concerts in Serbia, Austria, Lithuania, Germany, France, Denmark, Belgium, Italy, Israel, Japan, USA, South Africa and Namibia. She collaborated with renowned performers, ensembles and orchestras such as the Belgrade Philharmonic, RTS Symphony Orchestra, Academic Choir “Collegium musicum”, BSO “Dušan Skovran”, Strings of St. George, Ensemble for New Music, Ensemble “Construction site”, Ensemble “Metamorphosis”, Trio “Pokret”, “Fujita Trio” and others.

Svetlana Savić’s important compositions are “Poor Sad Don Juan’s daughter” for soloists, women’s choir and electronics, “Quincunx” for string orchestra, “Sustineo” and “Extraversions” for symphony orchestra, “Songs about the stars” for women’s choir and chamber orchestra, “Re-versions” for chamber ensemble, “Trapped”, for women’s choir and electronics and “Sonnets”, for women’s voice, cello, piano and electronics.