CREATING HERITAGE

Monday, August 14
Church of the Holy Spirit, 9 p.m.
CREATING HERITAGE
 

OLIVERA TIČEVIĆ, soprano
NATALIJA RADIĆ, soprano
MILICA MILANOVIĆ, soprano
DEJAN ĐONOVIĆ, narrator
DMITRY PROKOFIEV, cello
MONTENEGRIN YOUTH ORCHESTRA
PREMIL PETROVIĆ, conductor

PROGRAM

Nina Perović (1985)
Views, for three sopranos, string orchestra, and electronics

Rambo Amadeus (1963)
Stella’s Passion, for soprano, narrator and orchestra

Ivan Marović (1981)
Everlasting Spark, for narrator and string orchestra

Aleksandar Perunović (1978)
I am Dead Now, You Used to be Before, for cello and strings

Olivera Tičević completed bachelor’s studies at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade under Professor Aneta Ilić. As a scholarship holder of the City of Bern and winner of the National Scholarship for Excellence of the Ministry of Education of Montenegro, she completed master’s studies at the Bern University of Arts under Professor Christian Hilz as the best student of the University, for which she received an award from the Tschumi Foundation. She has won numerous awards and recognitions, among which are the Award for the Most Promising Performer of the Austrian Baroque Academy and an award at the prestigious Munot opera music competition, in Schaffhausen, Switzerland. Olivera Tičević had her first regional opera debut as Pamina in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte at the Madlenianum Opera in Zemun. She has appeared in the roles of Despina (Mozart, Così fan tutte), Lucy (Weil, The Threepenny Opera), and Musetta (Puccini, La bohème). She made her wider international premiere with the Zurich Opera as Pamina in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. Olivera Tičević has had notable performances at the Oslo Opera Festival, Kirstin Flagstad, Winter in Schwetzigen, KotorArt, Operosa opera, MISK, Gloggerfestiplene, and other events. She also performs repertoire from music of the 20th and 21st century, and has premiered works by Žarko Mirković, Nina Perović, Marko Kovač, and Draško Adžić.

Natalija Radić completed primary music school in Herceg Novi in the Violin  Department. She continued her education in Kotor at the Vida Matjan Secondary Music School in the Voice Department, under Professor Mirela Šćasni. Natalija Radić has participated in numerous competitions in the country and abroad and has won numerous prizes. In 2006, she graduated in Vocal Arts from the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, under Professor Radmila Smiljanić. With the Collegium Musicum Academic Choir, she has performed at concerts in North Macedonia, Italy, France, Great Britain, Ireland, Russia, and China. As a member of the opera studio of the National Theater in Belgrade, Natalija Radić has appeared in operas such as: Mihovil Logar’s A Would-Be Lady, Giacomo Puccini’s Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi, and Johann Strauss’ Die Fledermaus. She has participated as a soloist in numerous concerts featuring music by composers Ivan Brkljačić and Aleksandar Simić, as well as in drama performances at the Belgrade Drama Theater (Amadeus directed by Alisa Stojanović). Natalija Radić has performed with the Quartet of the Slovenian Philharmonic, at the Bled Festival, KotorArt, where she participated in the premiere of Stella’s Passion by Antonije Pušić – Rambo Amadeus, and at the NEO Festival in Novi Sad, among other festivals.

Dejan Đonović, actor and poet, graduated in Production from the Faculty of Drama in Cetinje. Since 1993, he has been a member of the City Theatre in Podgorica. Since 1986, he has performed over ninety theatrical roles in children’s plays, dramas, puppet shows, and plays for general audiences. Dejan Đonović has appeared in several important film and TV productions. He writes and publishes poetry and prose for children. More than eighty songs have been composed to his verses. He is the winner of numerous awards for lyrics and music at children’s song  festivals. Dejan Đonović often appears as a screenwriter and presenter at festivalsand events in the country and region.

The Montenegro Youth Orchestra (MYO) was founded in 2018 by the Association of Young Artists of Montenegro. In September 2019, the MYO served as the representative of Montenegro in the European Orchestra Federation. The Orchestra consists of young Montenegrin musicians gathered around the idea  of a contemporary national ensemble. With a modern sound and an accent on contemporary artistic creativity, it originally addresses the audience of the new generation. The Orchestra’s repertoire consists of well-known pieces of classical music, contemporary art music by national and international composers, and experimental projects based on a fusion of theater and classical music. For Milivoje Pićurić’s composition Nocturne for solo violin, orchestra, and electronics, the Montenegrin Youth Orchestra recorded the concert music video, which was broadcast on Russian television Rossiya-Kul’tura and reached millions of viewers. The orchestra has performed in Freiburg (Germany) in the E-Werk concert hall, in the Croatian National Theater in Split, at the opening of the KotorArt International Festival, the Wild Beauty Art Festival, the Music Center of Montenegro, and the Zetski dom Montenegrin Royal Theater, among others. Since its foundation, the orchestra has commissioned and performed over ten premieres of contemporary compositions, which makes it one of the most important creators of the contemporary cultural heritage of Montenegro.

Premil Petrović is the initiator, Chief Conductor, and Artistic Director of the No Borders Orchestra, with whom he recorded an album in 2015 for Universal Music – Deutsche Grammophon. He graduated in Conducting from the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin, under Professor Winfried Müller. In 1996, Premil founded the Cinema REX music theater in Belgrade. His repertoire includes interpretations of early music, operas and symphonies of Classicism and Romanticism, and premieres of contemporary music. He has also conducted premieres of operas by Isidora Žebeljan, one of the most prominent contemporary Serbian composers. Premil Petrović often conducts experimental music theaters,  such as the production of Schönberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, directed by Bruce Labruce, for whose film by the same title he recorded the second performance. In 2014, he collaborated with director Brett Bailey on the post-colonial production of Verdi’s opera Macbeth in Fabrizio Cassol’s arrangement in Capetown, which went on to be performed at some of the most important European festivals. Premil Petrović  has conducted at the Vancouver and Philadelphia Operas, at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra, the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, and at numerous European orchestra halls. He won the Hanns Eisler Prize for the interpretation of contemporary music.

Rambo Amadeus, pseudonim Antonija Pušića, sastavljen iz imena Džona Ramba i Volfganga Amadeusa Mocarta, spada u popularne fenomene rođene i ostvarene na muzičkoj sceni bivše Jugoslavije. U svojim pjesmama kombinuje satiričnupoeziju o ljudskoj prirodi i besmislenosti lokalne politike s mješavinom muzičkih stilova u koje spadaju džez, rok, hip-hop, dram end bejs. Zbog toga su njegovi nastupi, zasnovani na snimljenim pjesmama, uvijek nadograđeni improvizacijom i humorom. Objavio je albume: Hoćemo, gusle (PGP-RTB, 1989), Psihološkopropagandni komplet M-91 (PGP-RTB, 1991), K.P.G.S. (De Production/Master Records, 1993), Lažni car Šćepan Mali (De Production, 1994), O, tugo jesenja (PGP-RTB, 1998), Čobane, vrati se (Dallas Records, 2000), Oprem dobro (B92, 2005), Hipišizik metafizik (PGR-RTB, 2008), Vrh dna (Mascom Records, 2015). Diplomirao je turizmologiju na Prirodno-matematičkom fakultetu u Beogradu i višestruki je prvak bivše Jugoslavije u jedrenju. Na takmičenju za Pjesmu Evrovizije predstavljao je Crnu Goru 2012. godine, s pjesmom Euro Neuro.

 obtained his primary and secondary music education in Kotor and studied Composition at the University of Montenegro Music Academy. He has attended numerous masterclasses in composition, film music, and jazz in the country and abroad. He has written music for numerous theater plays and several films. Ivan Marović is engaged in original, incidental, jazz, and classical music. He has written several compositions that were commissioned by the KotorArt Festival: Everlasting Spark for strings, Kotor 1979 for strings and voices, and two wind quintets – Carnival in the Fog and Zorna. He currently lives in Berlin.

Aleksandar Perunović graduated in Composition from the University of Montenegro Music Academy under Professor Žarko Mirković, where he also completed his master’s studies. He obtained his PhD from the Faculty of Music in Belgrade under Professor Srđan Hofman. Perunović is the author of a large number of solo, chamber, choral, and orchestral compositions, as well as of artistic projects in the field of musical theater, multimedia applications, and electronics. His music has been performed in Montenegro (concerts featuring his own music, at the festivals KotorArt, Budva – Theater City, A Tempo, and others), in the region (International Review of Composers in Belgrade, the Days of Mokranjac in Negotin, and others), and throughout Europe (Internationales Theater Frankfurt, the contemporary art museum Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the Museum of Spiritual Treasures of Ukraine, Teatri Migjeni in Shkodër, Göteborgs konserthus, in several cities in Austria, in  Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, and Poland, among others). Many of these works were created as commissions by performers, ensembles, and festivals. He currently serves as an Associate Professor for the courses Musical Forms and Harmony at the University of Montenegro Music Academy, and is a member of the Department of Music Arts at the Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Milica Milanović​, a professor of Vocal Arts at the Vida MatjanPrimary and Secondary Music School in Kotor and the director of the Bruna Špiler International Competition, after completing her music school education under Professor Mirela Šćasni, graduated from the Music Academy in Istočno Sarajevo under Professor Milica Stojadinović and obtained her master’s degree under Professor Aleksandra Ristić. Working alongside her colleagues from the Chamber Choir of the Music Academy, she has achieved numerous successes and garnered awards on stages across Italy, Russia, Slovakia, Germany, Poland, and the former Yugoslav countries. Milica Milanović has performed extensively on stages throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina,representing the faculty. Additionally, she has collaborated with the orchestra of the Cetinje Music Academy, conducted by Maestro Radovan Papović, for performances in Slovenia, Austria, Albania, Croatia, Montenegro, and during special events like the New Year’s programs at the Budva Theater City and the October Days of Herceg Novi. She has appeared in the role of Suor Angelica in the opera of the same name by and Mara in the opera Gianni Schicchi by Giacomo Puccini/Mirela Šćasni Spralja/Slađana Vujović, as well as Marta in Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s opera Iolanta, and Kaćuša in the musical San o Boki composed by Peđa Ristić. Milica Milanović has performed at concerts such as Novske Dive, Lo Spettacolo, Četiri Soprana, U Susret Ljetu, and at the Operosa Festival. She premiered Nina Perović’s composition titled Views at KotorArt Don Branko’s Music Days.

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