Faculty of Music University of Arts in Belgrade

Faculty of Music University of Arts in Belgrade

On behalf of the Faculty of Music, the following participants are attending the program:

− Stana Krstajić, MMus Associate Professor in the field of Woodwind Instruments – Comparative Subjects,
− Luka Ignjatović, Associate Professor in the field of Jazz Saxophone, and
− Damjan Jovičin, DMA, Assistant Professor in the field of Composition – Compositional and Technical Disciplines.

August 5, 2025

Teachers in higher music education across the IN.TUNE Alliance are invited to apply for the Artist as Teacher course, a professional development programme designed to enhance pedagogical skills and inspire reflective teaching. The course is open to educators at all career stages and combines live sessions at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague with online learning.

Dr Milena Petrović, Full Professor, has been selected as the representative of the Faculty of Music from among doctoral studies mentors at the AIRE Conference in Vienna, organized within the IN.TUNE alliance.

Marko Vesić, a doctoral student in composition, has been selected as the representative of the Faculty of Music from among the doctoral candidates at the same conference.

Tuesday, 5^th August 2025

The first IN.TUNE Alliance Conference will be held in Vienna on November 3 and 4, 2025.

Dear students,
Join us for an exclusive online IN.TUNE Student-Led Projects Online Match-making Event on Monday, May 5, 2025, 16:30 CET — where students from across IN.TUNE connect to find project partners for the IN.TUNE Call for student-led projects Connect, Create and Collaborate Across Borders!

To regularly receive updates about calls, academic initiatives, mobility opportunities, and events within the IN.TUNE Alliance, we invite you to subscribe to the IN.TUNE newsletter. The Alliance provides a unique platform for knowledge exchange and artistic and academic collaboration among eight European universities specialized in music and the arts.

The European University Alliance IN.TUNE has expressed “unwavering solidarity with the students and academic community of the University of Arts in Belgrade,” stating that it has been closely monitoring developments at our university and beyond with deep concern.

The Electoral Council of the Faculty of Music Arts in Belgrade fully supports the demands of the students, adopts them as its own, and accordingly decides to continue the suspension of classes and exams at all levels of study until the end of student blockades.

This decision continues the unequivocal support for the students and their legitimate demands, which the Teaching-Artistic-Scientific Council of the Faculty has supported since the first days of the blockade.

The Verbier Festival Orchestra (VFO) is a rite of passage for today’s exceptional young orchestra musicians. It has brought together rising talents with the foremost conductors and soloists of our time for more than 20 years, earning it the reputation as one of the best training orchestras on the planet. 

https://youtu.be/Kutjv0rX6NQ

Musicians aged 18 to 28 can apply via video or live audition to join this exceptional training programme. From 30 June – 4 August 2025, students will receive intensive coaching by players from top international orchestras, as well as celebrated conductors (Klaus Mäkelä, Barbara Hannigan, Manfred Honeck, Paavo Järvi, Fabio Luisi, and Teodor Currentzis). The concerts will be broadcast on medici.tv.

2025 applications are now open. The video audition application deadline is 16 January 2025. You can find all details about the application and audition process here: https://www.verbierfestival.com/en/orchestras/vfo/vfo-guidelines/

VFO alumni have gone on to join leading orchestras around the world, including the Berlin, Israel, New York and Vienna Philharmonics, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw, Boston, Chicago and London Symphony Orchestras, and many more.

The VFO is part of the Verbier Festival Training programmes. Other opportunities for students include: the Verbier Festival Junior Orchestra (orchestral training for 15–18-year-olds), the Verbier Festival Academy (Soloists, Singers, Ensembles, Creative Entrepreneurs, Audio Engineers), and the Verbier Festival Conducting Programme. Find out more: https://www.verbierfestival.com/en/artist-training/

The traditional winter concert of the Symphony Orchestra of the Faculty of Music (FoM) was held on Tuesday, December 10th, in the Great Hall of the Kolarac Endowment, starting at 8 PM. The Symphony Orchestra was conducted by the world-renowned maestro Srboljub Dinić, with guitarist Milun Šunjevarić and violinist Matija Spasojević performing as soloists.

During the event, the new Dean of the Faculty of Music, Professor Slobodan Gerić, addressed the audience, followed by the presentation of certificates of appreciation to individuals and institutions for their exceptional contributions and merits to the Faculty. As special guests, students from the Faculty of Arts at the University of Banja Luka joined the FoM students. The Academic Tuba Quartet, consisting of Krunoslav Babić, Milun Mitić, Nikola Čopić, and Filip Knežević, performed works by Mozart, Handel, Clarke, Susato, and Hutchinson during the intermission in the Kolarac lobby.

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On December 9, 2024, during a student meeting held in the FMU hall starting at 5:30 PM, a blockade of the Faculty of Music Arts was announced.

The blockade will take effect from Wednesday, December 11, 2024, symbolically starting at 11:52 AM.

The blockade was voted in via an online poll conducted through the e-student platform, with over 50% of the student body participating.

We believe it is necessary for all of us to stand with our colleagues, especially those from the University of Arts, with whom we share strong professional and collegial ties. We hereby reiterate our condemnation of the violence inflicted upon students, professors, and teachers during the peaceful expression of grief for the victims in Novi Sad.

As future artists and scholars who wish to enrich the culture of our country, we demand to live in a civilized society where all human rights are respected. We appeal to the authorities to take action.

All future decisions regarding further steps will be made at student meetings where all students of our Faculty can attend and have the right to vote.

We distance ourselves from all parties, formal and informal groups, to preserve the autonomy of the students.

Students of the Faculty of Music