Mentors

Ivana Dakić

Oboist

Oboist Ivana Dakic started her music career at the Kosta Manojlovic Music School in Belgrade.

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

Violinist

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.

Dmitrii Prokofiev

Cellist

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.