Srdjan Tošić, Mmus
Srđan Tošić is one of the most prominent Serbian guitarists and professors of classical guitar. He began his artistic career more than 30 years ago, after being awarded Second Prize in Yugoslav Competition of Music Artists (Zagreb, 1985). Shortly after that came the Third prize in International Competition Jeunesses Musicalles (Belgrade, 1985), which made him known to both audience and music critic in former Yugoslavia. After completing his music studies at Zagreb Academy of Music, in 1986, where he studied with Ante Čagalj and Darko Petrinjak, he moved to his hometown Belgrade and started steady concert career which resulted in many solo recitals, as well as a lot of chamber engagements and performances with orchestras. In 1989 he won a prestigious ANDRES SEGOVIA Prize, awarded to the best participant of Spanish music course at the Festival “Musica en Compostela” in Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
His repertoire covers wide range of music styles and epochs, spreading from Renaissance to contemporary music. Concert named “XX Century”, held in February 1996, presented some major 20th century music works for guitar (pieces by Villa-Lobos, Britten, Walton, Dyens and D. Bogdanović) and was acclaimed as one of that year Belgrade’s concert season peaks. He performed abroad, in Moscow (USSR, 1989), Bulgaria, Greece, Slovenia and USA (Bloomington, Franklin, Indianapolis). He cooperated with singers, flutists and various guitar duos; performed concertos by Vivaldi, Giuliani and Rodrigo with Zagreb Symphonists, Belgrade Philharmonic and Belgrade Symphony Orchestra, orchestras in cities of Niš, Podgorica, Skoplje and Banja Luka.
Srđan Tošić participated in many guitar festivals in Serbia and abroad (Guitar Art Festival in Belgrade being most known among them), but was also regular guest in biggest music festivals in Serbia like BEMUS, BELEF, Mokranjac’s Days, Novi Sad Summer, and others.