Faculty of Music

Tatjana Milošević Mijanović, DMA

Head of the Department | Professor of Composition

Tatjana Milošević Mijanović obtained the Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctor’s degrees in composition from the Faculty of Music in Belgrade with Zoran Eric. She has lectured at the Department of Composition at the Belgrade Faculty of Music and at the Academy of Arts in Banjaluka. She has composed music for diverse media including chamber, solo instruments, electro-acoustic, vocal, symphonic, music for theater and collaborated with renowned artists such as Het Trio (Holland), De Ereprijs (Holland), Creo (USA), Zagreb String Trio (Croatia), Symphony Orchestra of Serbian Broadcasting Company, Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, St. George Strings, New music ensemble Gradilište, Trio Pokret, Trio Singidunum, Collegium musicum female choir, Andrzej Rzymkowski, Steffen Schleiermacher, Laurent Cuniot, David Gompper, Bojan Suđić, Nebojša Ignjatović, Nada Kolundžija…

Her compositions have been performed at festivals and concerts of contemporary music in almost every country in Europe, USA, South Korea and Serbia. Her piece The Lights of Betelgeuse or The Secret of A Red Giant for Piano, Harpsichord and Four Violoncellos was performed during the ISCM’s World Music Days 1998 in Seoul. In 2001. she stayed at the Department of composition at The Old Dominion University in Norfolk as a visiting professor. The same year she participated in a multimedia project “Waterproof” by Fort Asperen organization and UNESCO, where her electronic composition Tribute for Fort Honswijk was performed and recorded on CD. She was commissioned a ballet CoinciDance from Dansacademie Arnhem, which was performed at the Groeten uit Arnhem festival by the ensemble De Ereprijs. In 2009, she was a lecturer and a member of the jury at the “15th Young Composers Meeting” in Apeldorn. Her chamber opera Who killed princess Mond was premiered at Bitef Theatre in Belgrade and recorded by Radio Television of Serbia.

She has received a number of national and international awards for her work.