Miomir Simonović, MMus
Miomir Simonović has acquired his Bachelor’s and MA degrees at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade in the class of Prof. Tahir Kulenović. During his studies, he won numerous awards at national and international competitions and was awarded the third prize at the 23rd Yugoslav competition for young artists in Zagreb in 1989. He has attended masterclasses of eminent flutists such as Prof. Allain Marion and Prof. Raymond Guiot, and in year period 1987-1989, as a scholarship holder for the Scientific and artistic youth of Serbia, he attended conservatory “Hector Berlioz” in Paris under the mentorship of Prof. Raymond Guiot.
He has held over fifty recitals in Belgrade and many other cities in Serbia, but also in FYR Macedonia, France and Spain. He has performed as a soloist with Niš Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra RTS, the Serbian Army Orchestra and the Chamber Orchestra “Amorosso”.
He has been acting as a pedagogue since 1987, first in the Music School “Jovan Bandur” in Pančevo, then in schools “Josip Slavenski” in Belgrade and “Živorad Grbić” in Valjevo. During postgraduate studies was a teaching assistant in Prof. Tahir Kulenović’s class. He has been employed at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade since 1997 as an assistant and now as a full professor of flute.
In his class has graduated 35 students so far, some of whom continued their education abroad, while others are teachers throughout Serbia and members of various orchestras (Belgrade Opera Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra RTS Orchestra chamber opera “Madlenianum”). Students from the class of Miomir Simonović so far have won over 60 awards at national and international competitions.
Miomir Simonović is a permanent member of the flute choir “Belgrade siringa”, with whom he had several concert appearances and issued a CD with music by Bach, Haydn and Mozart.