Aleksandar Brujić, DMA
Aleksandar Brujić, DMA (Belgrade, 1976), finished a secondary school in Belgrade, specializing in music, as well as graduate and postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Music, University of Arts in Belgrade (Conducting Department, 1995-2003). In 2000, he was awarded the prize “Predrag Milošević” for the best student of conducting. In the same year he was granted a scholarship from the Goethe Institute in Mannheim. From 2002 to 2005 he worked as a vocal coach and music assistant at Belgrade Opera. He participated in the preparation of more than thirty operas and collaborated with conductors, most notably with Stefan Schreiber, Francesco Rosa and Carlo Donadio. Since 2004 he has been working as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade (course: score playing). As a music assistant he participated in masterclasses organized by Olivera Miljaković, Kammersaengerin of the Vienna State Opera, held in Belgrade in 2005. In 2005 he took part in the Young Artists’ festival (Jugendfestspiele) in Bayreuth (Germany). As a music assistant in Bayreuth he prepared the first performance of Wagner’s opera “Das Liebesverbot” (“The Ban on Love”) with Professor Fausto Nardi and Professor Edwin Scholz. The same year he collaborated with conductors Karl Anton Rickenbacher (in the preparation of parts of Wagner’s “Siegfried“) and with Zubin Mehta (in the preparation of Mahler’s Third Symphony), acting as a music assistant and piano accompanist with the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra. Furthermore, he has also worked as an accompanist for the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra while working with Noam Zur (preparation of Mahler’s “Das Lied von der Erde” (“The Song of the Earth”). Since 2008 he has been conducting the “Belgrade Madrigalists“ choir. Besides numerous concerts in Serbia, they have taken part in festivals and concerts in Bulgaria (2008), Romania (2009), Czech Republic (2011), Italy (2012), Montenegro (2012) and Hungary (2014).