Mentors 2021

Damjan Begović was born in Kotor in 1992. There he began his music education at the Music School “Vida Matjan” in the class of Goran Turkalj. He continued his secondary music education at the Music School “Vatroslav Lisinski” in Belgrade in the class of Ljubiša Jovanović.

Clarinetist Veljko Klenkovski  was born in Pančevo in Serbia. He graduated from the Kornelije Stanković Music School in Belgrade and then pursued further education at the Georges Bizet Conservatoire in Paris.

Sreten Krstić was born in Belgrade in 1953 and started the violin at the age of seven. He won highest awards at competitions, including the International Youth Music Competition in Belgrade, where he twice earned second prize (1973 and 1976) as well as a special award for his interpretation of Bach (1976). As concertmaster of the World Youth Orchestra, he played with soloists Henryk Szeryng and Pierre Fournier, and under the baton of conductors Jean Martinon and Bernhard Klee.

Flautist Žana Lekić is a professor at the Music Academy in Cetinje in Montenegro. She was born in the city of Kraljevo in Serbia, where she finished elementary and secondary music studies in the class of the prominent pedagogue Karolj Maročik at the Stevan Mokranjac Music School.

Violist Petar Obradović  was born in Smederevo in Serbia. He received his primary and secondary music education in Banja Luka in Bosnia-Herzegovina at the Vlado Milošević Music School in the class of Mirjana Bubić.

Pianist Nataša Popović  was born and raised in Podgorica, where she finished her music education, and studied with Vladimir Bočkarjov at the Music Academy in Cetinje.

Violoncellist Dmitrii Prokofiev was born in Moscow. In 2003, he graduated from the Moscow Conservatory and in 2005 he passed a post-graduate course with Professor Natalia Gutman. He was a prize winner in a number of international young artist competitions, including the Tansman (Poland 1998), Tchaikovsky (Russia 2002), and Janigro (Croatia 2008) competitions, among others.

Violinist Marko Simović  began the study of the violin with his father, the violinist and conductor Igor Simović. At age 15, he enrolled in the Music Academy in Cetinje in Montenegro, and graduated with highest marks.

Maša Tulić was born in Pancevo in Serbia. She completed study of the French horn at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, in the class of Nenad Vasić. She completed her master’s studies at the Music Academy in Skopje in the class of Aleksandra Gošev.

Contrabassist Ana  Zvicer  studied at the Music Academy in Cetinje in the class of Pavel Aksamit and then finished her studies in 2008 at the Music Academy in Ljubljana with Zoran Marković.

Elisabeth Attl

Damjan Begović

Boris Brezovac

Slađana Cvejić

Jean-Michel Despin

Vladislava Drašković

Vladimir Drobnjak

Dragan Gonevski

Velјko Klenkovski

Nazar Kozhukhar

Sreten Krstić

Aleksandar Latković

Žana Lekić

Anton Martynov

Maria Di Meglio

Milan Ninković

Petar Obradović

Bojan Pešić

Nataša Popović

Thomas Posth

Tatjana Prelević

Dmitrii Prokofiev

Tomoko Sagawa

Alexey Shatskiy

Marko Simović

Nadica Ristić Simović

Maša Tulić

Slaven Turusković

Eva Vučeković Veith

Jörg Winkler

Nemanja Živanović

Ana Zvicer