Faculty of Music University of Arts in Belgrade

Faculty of Music University of Arts in Belgrade

Neda Hofman-Sretenović studied piano in the class of Prof. Dr. H.C. Arbo Valdma at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, from which she graduated in 1999, and at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne, where she obtained her academic master’s degree in 2002 as a DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst) scholarship holder. She also received her master’s degree in 2004 from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, in the class of Professor Rita Kinka. In 2015, she earned her Doctor of Arts degree in chamber music in the class of Professor Zorica Ćetkovic, at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, defending her doctoral thesis titled Problems of Interpretation and Technical Realization of Electroacoustic Works.

She is actively involved in performing contemporary music. In 2011, she founded the Construction Site Contemporary Music Ensemble, being its artistic director. Since the Ensemble’s establishment, she has held over thirty concerts in the country and abroad (Lithuania, Montenegro, Croatia, Israel). It was with this ensemble that she launched the ReConstruction Contemporary Music Festival. As a soloist and chamber musician, she has performed in Germany, France, Italy, Greece, Macedonia, South Africa, Namibia and Botswana. She regularly appears at the International Review of Composers, performing solo and chamber music works by local and foreign authors. She has premiered newly composed pieces of a number of major contemporary composers as well as representatives of the youngest composers’ generation. She also participated in the Composers in the First Person Festival, held in Belgrade in 2004, as well as in the KoMA and Lasciar Vibrare festivals. She has performed with the St. George Strings Chamber Orchestra, the Dušan Skovran Belgrade String Orchestra, the Camerata Academica String Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of the Radio Television of Serbia, and the Collegium Musicum female academic choir. She has recorded with the Symphony Orchestra of the Radio Television of Serbia, for CD productions by the Music Information Centre, the Construction Site Contemporary Music Ensemble and the Serbian Musicological Society. She is the official piano accompanist of the International saxophone competition SAXperience, which takes place annually in Belgrade.

She works as a senior art associate at the Strings Department, at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade where she also gives lectures on performing electro-acoustic music.