Faculty of Music University of Arts in Belgrade

Faculty of Music University of Arts in Belgrade

Nemanja Marjanovic was born in 1976 in Belgrade. In 1991 he began playing the viola in the class of Professor Tatjana Petrovic, at the Stankovic Music School. He graduated and received his Master’s degree at the Faculty of Musical Arts in Belgrade, in the class of Prof. Dejan Mladjenovic. He also completed his postgraduate studies in Madrid, at the Escuela Superior de musica Reina Sofia, in the class of the world-renowned solo violist, Gerrard Causse, in whose class he received his Master’s degree as a student of the generation at the department and received a diploma personally from Her Royal Highness Queen Sofia. As a soloist, he improved his skills in master classes with Yuri Bashmet, Nobuko Imai, Paul Neubauer, Ognjan Stanchev and others. He specialized in string quartet with Rainer Schmid (violinist of the Hagen Quartet) and Prof. Welter Levin, from the Juilliard Academy in New York. In the field of chamber music, he studied with Marta Gulyas, Elgar Nebolsin, Zakhar Bron, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, Peter Frankel, Ralf Gotoni, Rudolf Barsai, Dmitry Bashkirov, Jamie Martin, Radovan Vlatkovic, Natalia Sahovskaya and José Luis García Asensio, and many others. As a soloist, he participated in all significant domestic festivals, BEMUS, NOMUS, Mokraac’s Days, Marble and Sounds, OKTOH, Tribina Komposer, and many others, as well as in foreign festivals, such as Santander, Slamatino, etc. He has performed in Austria, Spain, Hungary, Russia, Italy, the Netherlands, Mexico and other countries. He is the winner of the first prize at the International Petar Konjović Competition, in three stages. As a soloist, he has performed with orchestras: the RTS Symphony Orchestra, the Stanislav Binički Ensemble, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Banja Luka Philharmonic Orchestra, the Dušan Skovran Orchestra, of which he was a five-year member as solo viola player, the Camerata Novi Sad Orchestra, he has performed as a member of the Jewish Chamber Orchestra, and the Cornelije Orchestra, where he also performed as solo viola player, and is also one of its founders. He was a member of the Scarlatti Quintet in Madrid, with which he performed in Spain and Italy, and with which he released a CD for Sony Classics. He currently works as an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Musical Arts in Belgrade, and at the Academy of Arts in Banja Luka, at the Department of String Instruments, Viola Department.