According to the safety guidelines regarding the current situation of the pandemic, this fall the Cultural Centre of Belgrade will start traditional concert season Concerts in Gallery under special conditions. Programs will be held every Monday at 20:00 in the Artget Gallery.
Because of the health and safety guidelines for suppression of the epidemic, the number of attendees in the Artget Gallery is reduced to 20, so it is important to book your seat by e-mail damjana.njegic@kcb.rs or by phone 011 2622 058 till noon at the day of the concert.
We remind you that it is necessary to wear safety masks and to keep 1.5 meters apart from each other during your stay in the Cultural Centre of Belgrade.
Program:
Ludwig van Beethoven
Variations (32) in C minor, WoO 80
Franc Schubert
Sonata No. 14 in A minor, D. 784
Allegro giusto
Andante
Allegro vivace
Frederic Chopin
Mazurka for piano No. 18 in C minor, Op. 30/1
Mazurka for piano No. 19 in B minor, Op. 30/2
Mazurka for piano No. 20 in D flat major, Op. 30/3
Mazurka for piano No. 21 in C sharp minor, Op. 30/4
Alexander Scriabin
Preludes (24) for piano, Op. 11 (excerpt)
Prelude for piano in B major, Op. 11/11
Prelude for piano in G sharp minor, Op. 11/12
Prelude for piano in G flat major, Op. 11/13
Prelude for piano in E flat minor, Op. 11/14
Biography:
Jovana Nikolić (Belgrade, 1984) graduated from FMU (2004) with Nevena Popović. At the same time, she studied at the Schola Cantorum in Paris with the renowned pianist Eugen Inđić. She completed regular, master and Konzertexamen for chamber music at the University of Music in Karlsruhe with Michael Ude and Marcus Stange. Jovana has won numerous awards at national and international competitions as a soloist and chamber musician. Also, she was awarded from the Jelena Pavlović Fund as the best student of the generation at FMU. In a duo with violinist Marie Claudine Papadopoulos, she won the first prize at the Freundeskreis chamber duo competition in Karlsruhe (2006), which enabled them to participate in the Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Preis competition in Berlin the following year. She was a fellow of the Akademie Schloss Solitude foundation in Stuttgart as well as the Alfred Toepfer Stiftung F.V.S. foundation from Hamburg.
She performed as a soloist and chamber musician at the Brasil-Alemanha International Festival in Rio de Janeiro (2009). She has also performed in France, Italy, Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Switzerland. She was an assistant professor of chamber music at the University of Music in Karlsruhe. At the Mendelssohn Summer School Festival in Hamburg she collaborated with eminent pedagogues such as Regis Pasquier, Tanja Becker Bender, Sebastian Schmidt and Christian Altenburger. She was hired as a piano collaborator at the Hochschule für Musik in Hamburg. Jovana currently lives in Belgrade and works as a piano associate at the Music School for Talents in Ćuprija.