MUSIC FOR THE END OF TIME

Aleksandar Tasić, clarinet, completed his graduate and postgraduate studies at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, under Professor Nikola Srdić. He has studied with professors such as Ricardo Morales, Michael Collins, Michel Arrignon, and Jim Ognibene. The University of Novi Sad honored him with the Exceptional Award for his artistic activity. As a soloist, Aleksandar Tasić has performed with numerous orchestras and at important festivals such: as Nomus, Bemus, International Review of Composers (Serbia); Les Classiques de Villars, the Festival and Academy in Verbier, Reveries Musicales de Villars (Switzerland); Y4Y (Thailand) ); Music Festival at the Schloss Elmau (Germany); KotorArt and A-Tempo (Montenegro); Bregenz Festival (Austria); Ohrid Summer Festival (Macedonia); Festival in Granada (Spain); and Mostar Spring (Bosnia and Herzegovina). He is a permanent member of the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, with which he has had the opportunity to play under the leadership of famous conductors such as James Levine, Zubin Mehta, Kent Nagano, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Valery Gergiev, Gábor Takács-Nagy, Claudio Vandelli, and others. Aleksandar Tasić released the CD Ben ritmato e deciso with guitarist Zoran Krajišnik. He is a full professor of Clarinet at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad and at FILUM in Kragujevac.

Bojan Martinović, at the age of just 15, was accepted as a student at the Montenegro Music Academy taught by professor Vladimir Bockarjov, graduating and obtaining the M.A. degree. Intensively and with a great success he performs and contributes to various chamber ensembles, cooperating closely with many domestic and international artists including Viktor Tretyakov, Marina Yashvili, Petter Langartner, Duncan McTier, Vilhelmas Chepinskis, Mikhail Bereznitsky, Miran Begić, Roman Simović, Vladislav Igulinski and Ksenia Akeynikova. He performs an extremely rich and diverse repertoire consisting of more than 30 different programs, both recitals and chamber music. He has performed in many prestigious concert halls around Ex-Yugoslavia, Italy, Germany, Austria, France, Belgium, England, Netherlands, Hungary, USA, Armenia, Lebanon, and Russia. A laureate of numerous domestic and international competitions, and he also received a prestigious Montenegrin Academy of Science and Arts award (2010). He received invitation to give master class at State Conservatorium P. I. Tchaikovsky in Moscow. Currently he is the Dean and a piano professor at the Montenegro Music Academy and cofounder of International music Espressivo Festival in Cetinje.

Nadezhda Artamonova started playing the violin at the age of four, and at the age of five she was already performing as a soloist with orchestras. She studied at the Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow. Nadezhda Artamonova has performed in prestigious concert halls such as the Great Hall of the Music Conservatory in Moscow, the Moscow House of Composers, the Beethoven Hall in Bonn, and others. She has performed as a soloist with the Novaya Rossiya Philharmonic, BSO, the Orchestra of the Moscow Conservatory, the Pavel Slobodkin Center Moscow Chamber Orchestra, the Kyiv Chamber Orchestra, and the Kyiv Philharmonic, among others. Nadezhda Artamonova is a member of the Expert Council for Doctoral Studies in the Field of Culture and Art in Moscow. In cooperation with Olga Ponomareva and Alexey Kurbatov, she has organized several cycles of lectures and concerts for children and adults. In addition to being a great violinist, Nadezhda Artamonova is a very successful and responsive pedagogue. Working at the Central Music School in Moscow, the Ippolitov-Ivanov State Music and Pedagogical Institute, and the G. P. Vishnevskaya College of Music and Theater, she has educated numerous students who have gone on to become laureates of international competitions and winners of scholarships from numerous foundations. Nadezhda Artamonova is regularly a member of the jury at numerous Russian and international competitions.