Faculty of Music

Mirjana Zakić, PhD

Head of Department | Professor of Ethnomusicology
+381 63 266 210

Dr Mirjana Zakić graduated at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, Department of Ethnomusicology. She was awarded a prize of the Faculty’s fund “Aleksandar Djorjević” for her final examination study “Diple of Old Montenegro”. During her studies she was a one-year fellowship holder of the Republic Community for the International Cooperation and specialized in the field of ethnomusicology at the Conservatory “P. I. Tchaikovsky” in Moscow.

At the Faculty of Music in Belgrade she successfully defended her M.A. thesis “Instrumental and vocal-instrumental heritage of Zaplanje region in the light of traditional music opinion”, as well as her doctoral dissertation “Ceremonial songs of winter season- systems of music signs in the tradition of the southeastern Serbia” (written under the mentorship of professor Dragoslav Dević).

Since 1990 she has been employed at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade.
She is the chairman of the “Serbian Society of Ethnomusicology” since its establishment in 2002.
She was the Vice dean at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade (2012-2015).