Faculty of Music University of Arts in Belgrade

Faculty of Music University of Arts in Belgrade

Vladimir Vanja Šćepanović finished his Master’s and Specialist academic piano studies at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, with the greatest success. At the aforementioned faculty, in 2019, he defended his Thesis within a doctoral art project at the Department of chamber music, entitled “Synaesthesia and the function of colors on the interpretation form in the chamber work Quartet for the End of Time by Olivier Messiaen”, and thus obtained the title of Doctor of Art. He held over a hundred full-evening concerts with major works by composers from the Baroque to the 21st century, as well as a large number of concerts with premieres of works by Serbian, Italian, Slovenian, American and Armenian composers. He performed as a soloist and chamber artist in Serbia, Montenegro, Slovenia, Serb Republic, Croatia, Italy, France, USA, and Canada. Vanja Šćepanović took part in many art festivals in Serbia, such as Rosi Fest, International Review of Composers, Festival of Slavic Music Belgrade, Art Festival ARLEM, Tisin cvet, Golden Sounds, as well as international festivals Flute Days, Days of Vlade S. Milošević (Banja Luka, Serb Republic), Carniarmonie, Nei Suoni dei Luoghi (Italy), NFA 50th Golden Anniversary Convention (Chicago, USA) and others. A special part of his concert repertoire consists of works by Serbian composers, which he performed for solo piano and in various ensembles: for clarinet trio, works for violin and piano ensemble, piccolo flute and piano, works for two pianos and four-handed piano, oboe and piano, horn and piano, etc. In 2014, together with violinist Katarina Popović and clarinetist Mihailo Samoran, he founded the Aratos Trio, which is actively engaged in artistic research and performance of repertoire for the clarinet trio with a special focus on the music of the 20th and 21st centuries. In 2021, with piccolo player Snježana Pavićević, he recorded a compact disc Perspecctives, with the premiered works of Serbian composers for piccolo and piano, which they presented at the jubilee flute convention organized by the National Flute Association in Chicago, in August 2022. With the art associations “ArtNet” and “Bell’Opera” from Belgrade, as well as the opera ensemble from Osijek “Opera Pannonica”, he performed the opera performances “Don Giovanni” and “Cosi fan tutte” W. A. Mozart, as well as the opera “La Bohème” by Giacomo Puccini. Šćepanović was a participant in numerous piano masterclasses, one of which specifically allocates a three-year piano masterclass with pianist and professor Vladimir Ovchinnikov (Russia), as well as eminent piano pedagogues, such as Wei-Yi Yang (USA), Alberto Portugheis (England), Vladimir Krpan (Croatia), Kyoko Hashimoto (Japan), Ludvig Günter (Austria). In 2019. and 2020, he was the official piano accompanist at the Art Festival ARLEM, for cellist Stevan Popov’s masterclass (Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London). He is the founder of the art projects “Four sides of the world”, “Music pour trois“, and “MozART”, which are supported by the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia. He began to engage in educational work in 2004. His students are winners of numerous awards and were laureates at national and international competitions. He was awarded in 2018. by the Ministry of Education for his pedagogical results. From 2022. he is employed at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, in the Vocal studies department.