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The Profundis Chamber Orchestra was founded four years ago with the aim of promoting the quality and uniqueness of artistic expression with a special emphasis on the originality of their concert performances. Its members are some of the most prominent North Macedonian instrumentalists that are employed at the National Opera and Ballet and the National Philharmonic of North Macedonia. In addition to its classical repertoire, which includes music from the Baroque onwards, the ensemble strives to develop other ways of presenting music – through digital concerts, 3D mapping, the use of new technologies, and other approaches. Today, the orchestra is ready to meet all the challenges of contemporary music production. It has performed at festivals such as: the Ohrid Summer Festival, Autumn Music Festivities, Golden Lyre, Modoars, and Days of Macedonian Music, collaborating with North Macedonian artists including Ljubiša Kirovski, Marija Gjoševska, Blagoj Nacoski, Slavica Micovska, Nade Talevska, Ema Popivoda, and others. The orchestra has performed with prominent soloists, among them Antonio di Cristofano, Angelo Ruggieri, Daniele Aiello, Maurizio Mastrini, and Paolo Sibilia, and has had a very significant collaboration with the Serbian violinist Jovan Bogosavljević.

Ema Popivoda, pianist and professor at the Music Academy in Shtip, has had the privilege to study with renowned experts, such as Stela Slejanska, Aquiles Delle Vigne, Boris Romanov, William Howard, and Arbo Valdma. She completed her doctoral artistic studies in Piano Performance. She has participated in the Mozarteum Summer Academy in Salzburg and at the Dartington Academy in Devon. Ema Popivoda holds an IGSCE studies certificate from the University of Cambridge and has acquired Teacher Accreditation for the British music program. Her piano repertoire is a mixture of music by contemporary Macedonian authors and composers of romanticism and classicism. She is the representative of North Macedonia in the Global Bridges world’s leadership network, and she was the Manager in the Field of Culture and Art during the presidency of Đorđe Ivanov. Alongside with her career as a classical pianist, Ema Popivoda has participated in an experimental project of fusion music, performing as a soloist in the Concerto for Piano, Orchestra and DJ with the Orchestra regional de Cannes and the famous DJ Derrick May, conducted by Dzijan Emin. Her latest project Supersonic for piano and chamber orchestra, in which she participates as a soloist and author of the music, has been well received in the Balkan region and Italy.

Gjurgjica Dasic, conductor and founder of the Profundis Chamber Orchestra, graduated in Orchestral Conducting at the Faculty of Music in Skopje, under Professor Saša Nikolovski-Gjumar. Since 2008, she has served as a choir conductor at the National Opera and Ballet in Skopje, where she participates in staging and conducting the entire repertoire. She has collaborated with numerous prominent conductors, either as an associate or assistant, such as Emil Tabakov, Gianluca Martinengi, Enrico Dovico, Saša Nikolovski-Gjumar, Vanja Nikolovski-Gjumar, Uroš Lajović, and others. Gjurgjica Dasic has conducted operas such as Rita by G. Donizetti and Il barbiere di Siviglia by G. Rossini, as well as the traditional concert Kosta Trpkov Young Opera Singers. She is currently participating in the realization of the first Macedonian musical Tajno moja, as a tribute to Toše Proeski. With the Profundis Chamber Orchestra, Gjurgjica Dasic has collaborated with world-renowned soloists, including: Irena Murezanu, Maurizio Mastrini, Daniele Aiello, Antonio di Cristofano, Paolo Sibilia, Ema Popivoda, Blagoj Nacoski, Ljubiša Kirovski, Anna Kondratenko, and many others. Under her baton, Profundis has performed numerous concerts, providing an unforgettable listening experience to their audience.