KOTORART TALENTS

Wednesday, August 1
Church of the Holy Spirit, 9:30 p.m.

FREE ENTRANCE!

KOTORART TALENTS

TAMARA ŽIVKOVIĆ, flute (Montenegro)
BOŠKO TUJKOVIĆ, accordion (Montenegro)
BOŠKO BISMILJAK, trumpet (Montenegro)
ANDRIJANA JOVANOVIĆ, piano (Montenegro)
SARA BASHORE, violin (USA)
NELA DRAŠKOVIĆ, oboe (Montenegro)

Piano accompanists: Marina Mikić (Montenegro / Serbia), Maja Žmukić (Montenegro)

Program:

Tamara Živković, flute
Philipp Telemann (1681–1767)
Fantasia in A minor, No. 2
Wilhelm Popp (1828–1903
Staccato-Fantasia, for flute and piano

Boško Tujković, accordion
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Prelude and Fugue in F minor, BWV 534
Viatcheslav Semyonov (1946)
Basqueriad, Sonata No. 2, III movement

Boško Bismiljak, trumpet
Alexander Arutiunian (1920–2012)
Concerto for trumpet and orchestra 

Andrijana Jovanović, piano
Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849)
Etude in B minor, Op. 25, No. 10
Polonaise in A major, Op. 40, No. 1

Sara Bashore, violin / Nela Drašković, oboe / Marina Mikić, piano
Jean-Baptiste Loeillet (1680 –1730)
Sonata for flute (violin), oboe and piano

TAMARA ŽIVKOVIĆ, a third-year Flute student at the Vida Matjan Secondary Music School (Kotor), under Professor Andrea Živković, has participated in international and republic competitions, winning Golden and Silver Lyras, as well as Special Awards. She has attended seminars and master classes of eminent flutists such as Ljubiša Jovanović, Marina Nenadović, Peter Lukas Graf, Dejan Gavrić, Anđela Bratić, Laura Levai-Aksin, and Guolian Han, also having participated in the Pučišća International Summer School of Music of Matej Zupanc (Brač). Tamara Živković held her first solo concert at the age of thirteen. She actively participates in her school’s choir, as a soloist, and at children’s festivals.

BOŠKO TUJKOVIĆ is a third-year Accordion student at the Vida Matjan Secondary Music School (Kotor), under Professor Goran Ševaljević. He has won numerous awards at national and international competitions, including the Silver Lyra at the 37th Youth Music Festival in Montenegro (2010), a Special Award at the 39th Youth Music Festival in Montenegro (2012), the Golden Lyra at the 41th Youth Music Festival in Montenegro (2014), a Special Award at the Eufonija Festival (Novi Sad, 2015), first prizes at the Accordion Art International Accordion Festival (East Sarajevo, 2010, 2013), the 16th International Accordion Days (Smederevo, 2011, 2013), and the Russian Moresol International Art Festival (Tivat, 2014, 2015), and the Second Prize at the Star Ways festival (Kragujevac, 2011). 

BOŠKO BISMILJAK, trumpet, completed primary music school in Budva, under Professor Momir Petričević. He has participated at state competitions in Herceg Novi, Kotor, and Podgorica, as well as at international competitions in Belgrade, and has won five Golden and two Silver Lyras. At the Petar Konjović International Competition (Belgrade, 2018), Boško Bismiljak won the First Prize. He has been a participant in workshops of art and jazz music by Tom Smith, Marko Đorđević, and Francisco Pérez-Ferrer. He is an orchestra member of City Music in Kotor and Budva. In addition to trumpet, Boško Bismiljak is engaged in swimming and performs for the national team of Montenegro. He is currently a fourth-year student at the Vida Matjan Secondary Music School in Kotor, under Professor Sara Lakičević.

ANDRIJANA JOVANOVIĆ, a fourth-year Piano student at the Vida Matjan Secondary Music School (Kotor), under Professor Gracijela Ćatović, had her first solo concert at the end of primary music school, and has thus far made this a practice in Kotor once a year. She has participated at the Republic Competition, has performed in Denmark, and shared the stage with the renowned piano duo of Roman Simović and Ratimir Martinović. at the KotorArt Festival. Andrijana Jovanović has attended seminars and master classes of Irina Čukovska, Flavio Brunette, Ljiljana Vukelja, Rita Kinka, Vladimir Milošević, and Bojan Martinović.

SARA BASHORE, violin, obtained her Bachelor’s Degree of Music in Violin Performance in 2017 from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she continued on to her master studies. Currently, she is a concert-master of the University Chamber Orchestra and the Pops Orchestra and serves as the first violin in the Santa Maria Philharmonic. She has studied violin with pedagogues such as Yi-Huan Zhou, Sam Formicola, Maia J. White, Danielle Belen, and others. As a soloist and chamber musician, Sara Bashore has played with the Danish String Quartet, Juilliard Quartet, Calidore Quartet, and the Felice Quartet. She has performed at the Gold Coast Chamber Music Festival (Queensland, Australia), with the Colburn School's Orchestra da Camera under the baton of Maxim Eshkenazy and at the Luzerne Music Festival in New York, whose Artistic Director is violinist Elizabeth Pitcairn. As an assistant, she is engaged in the work of the Santa Barbara Strings, a program which teaches young musicians interpretation of chamber and orchestral music. Sara Bashore has recently started to study violin under Professor Jonathan Moerschel.

NELA DRAŠKOVIĆ, Oboe student under Professor Vladimir Puškaš at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, received her primary music education at the Vasa Pavić Music School in Podgorica, before finishing Music Theory at the Vida Matjan Music School in Kotor. She won the Golden Lyra at the Republic Competition in Podgorica (2017) and the Second Prize at the Woodwind Competition in Požarevac (2016). She has participated in the Chamber Music Summer Camp on Ivanova Korita and the Wind Summer Seminar in Tivat. Last year she held a solo concert with a colleague from the Singing Department. Nela Drašković participates in the concerts of the Wind Department as a soloist, and also plays in projects of the Academy of Arts Symphony Orchestra. She has as well performed with the El Sistema Orchestra under the baton of Gerardo Estrada in Belgrade and Novi Sad.