Slobodan Milivojević, DMA
The Serbian guitarist Slobodan Milivojevic was born in Knin in 1980. He graduated classical guitar with the highest grade at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade in class prof. Srdjan Tosic. Having received full scholarship from Jacob’s School of Music at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA, he completed their most prestigious performing guitar program, Artist Diploma, working under the globally known guitarist Ernesto Bitetti and one of the most prominent experts in the field of early music, the lutist Nigel North. Slobodan completed his Doctoral Artistic Studies in 2015 at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade under the mentorship of Professor Srdjan Tosic. He defended his doctoral artistic project entitled “The Influence of Latin American popular music genres on the formation of a personal interpretative approach to the guitar repertoire composers of 20th-century”.
Milivojevic began his performing career while he was still a student, participating in concerts organized by Belgrade University. Later he expanded his concert activity playing many solo and chamber music concerts both in Serbia and abroad (Bosnia-Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Slovenia,USA Norway). His repertoire encompasses a wide range of works, spanning from the Renaissance to the music of the twenty-first century.
He won the first prize at the 10th Competition in the Performance of Music from Spain and Latin America in Bloomington, Indiana, in 2007, and was awarded the first prize at the Indianapolis Musicale competition in the same year.
His first CD From Choro to Tango was released by the Vojvodina Association of Classical Guitarists in 2017. and includes works of Latino-American composers, originally written for guitar and inspired by various Latino-American popular musical forms. His second compact disc, entitled Rêverie, was recorded in collaboration with guitarist Vuk Dragicevic. The album features works by French composers from the Baroque and Impressionist periods that were not originally written for guitar duo.
As performer, lecturer, and jury member, he regularly participates in most important guitar festivals in Serbia and neighboring countries.