Katarina Vasiljević, violin and Jasmina Raković, piano

Katarina Vasiljević is 4th grade pupil at the Music High School Mokranjac in the class of Prof. Vladimir Vasiljević.

Program:
Aram Il’yich Khachaturian
Violin Concerto in D minor
Allegro con fermezza
Andante sostenuto
Allegro vivace

Niccolò Paganini
Caprice No. 16

Biographies:
Katarina Vasiljević (Belgrade, 2004) is 4th grade pupil at the Music High School Mokranjac in the class of Prof. Vladimir Vasiljević. She is a winner of numerous state and international competitions like RT ZMBSS, Stringfest, Premio Clivis (Rome) and Alexander Glazunov (Paris). She participated at many concerts in Belgrade, Prague, Munich and Paris. She gave her first recital at 9th International Festival Konstantinus in Niš. She plays the instrument of the famous violin-maker Nikola Vasić.

Jasmina Raković studied piano at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade with Nataša Mitrović and Ninoslav Živković. She continued her studies in Holland at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with Frank van de Laar. She works as collaborative pianist at the MS Mokranjac String department. She performs regularly as soloist, chamber musician or collaborative pianist in Belgrade and Serbia, as well as in Europe. She collaborates with several musicians in the chamber ensembles Music for a While Trio with Nenad Uskoković and Stefna Hadžić, Piano duo Barabar with Ružica Gojković in duo with Mina Aleksić.