MILOŠ INVITES

2017-08-04 22:00

Luštica Bay

MILOŠ KARADAGLIĆ, guitar (Montenegro / Great Britain)

PUMEZA MATSHIKIZA, soprano, (Republic of South Africa)

STRING ATTACHED QUARTET (Srbija)

Stanko Madić, violin

Nemanja Belej, violin

Uroš Bobić, viola

Nemanja Stanković, cello

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Miloš Karadaglić

MILOŠ KARADAGLIĆ, a leading classical guitarist of his generation, drew special attention across the globe with his debut album The Guitar in 2011. He first started playing the guitar at the age of 8, and enrolled in the Royal Music Academy in London when he was 16. As a soloist, he has appeared with many of the world’s leading ensembles, such as the Los Angeles, Munich, Czech, and London Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony, and the National Symphony Orchestras of Cleveland, Philadelphia, Spain, Washington, and Japan. Karadaglić has given a number of recitals in prominent concert halls and at major festivals in Europe, Japan, and the USA, as well as performed concerts in non-traditional venues – in chamber music spaces and great concert halls, such as the London Royal Albert Hall, performing for an audience of three thousand people. As an exclusive artist of the label Deutsche Grammophon, he has recorded several albums, while his latest one, Blackbird: The Beatles Аlbum, was released in 2016 by the label Mercury Classics/Deutsche Grammophon. He also recorded the soundtrack of the animated movie When Marnie Was There (Studio Ghibli, 2014). In 2014, Karadaglić designed a watch for the Swiss brand Raymond Weil, and all proceeds from sales went to charity. He plays a guitar of the guitar-maker Greg Smallman.

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Pumeza Matchikiza

PUMEZA MATSHIKIZA, soprano, described by music critics as a rising opera star, studied at the University of Cape Town College of Music and the Royal College of Music. She has attended master classes by Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Sir Thomas Allen, Renata Scotto, and many others. As a member of the Staatsoper Stuttgart, she has sung the roles of Micaёla in Bizet’s Carmen, Mimì in Puccini’s La Bohème, and Susanna, Zerlina, and Pamina in Mozart’s operas. Pumeza Matshikiza made her debut at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan (2015) as Eve in the world premiere of Giorgio Battistelli’s CO2. She has performed as a soloist at festivals such as the Budapest Spring Festival and the Festival de la Vézère (France), as well as in Copenhagen, Gothenburg, Krakow, London, Amsterdam, Paris, her hometown, Cape Town. In 2016, Pumeza Matshikiza made her debut with the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale Santa Cecilia in Rome, singing the world premiere of Luca Francesconi’s Bread, Water, and Salt, based on the famous speech by Nelson Mandela. As an exclusive artist of the Decca Classics label, she has recorded two albums – Voice of Hope (2014) and Arias (2016).

STANKO MADIĆ, violinist, started playing violin when he was six, studying under Professor Robert Toškov. At the age of fourteen, he became a student of the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, under Professor Dejan Mihailović, and graduated as the best student in his generation with a number of national awards and recognitions. He continued on to his master’s studies at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, where he worked as an assistant of Professor Megumi Teshima, and then at the Karl Maria von Weber Hochschule für Musik, under Professor Igor Malinovsky. Stanko Madić has won numerous first and special prizes and has been a laureate of of many international competitions, such as: Cirenie Talentow (Slovakia), Jaroslaw Kocian (Czech Republic), Rodolfo Lipizer (Italy), Petar Konjović (Serbia), Jeunesses Musicales (Serbia), and Violine in Dresden (Germany). He served as a member of the Staatskapelle Dresden, and since 2011 has held the position of First Concertmaster of the Nürnberg State Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as of the No Border Orchestra. Stanko Madić plays a 1908 Carlo Carletti violin.

NEMANJA BELEJ, violinist, began studying violin at the age of six. After finishing Kosta Manojlović Secondary Music School, he completed his undergraduate and master’s studies at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, under Professor Maja Jokanović, proclaimed three consecutive years as the best student of the Strings Department. He has attended numerous courses of artists, such as Roman Simović, Ilija Marinković, Deborah Neptown, Ken Aiso, Uto Ughi, and Stefan Milenković, among others. In 2015, Nemanja Belej won the First prize at the Petar Konjović International Competition, as well as the Audience Award at the 46th Jeunesses Musicales, a world-renowned competition in Belgrade. At the age of 14, he began serving as a member of the CEI Youth Orchestra, with whom he performed in Milan, Vienna, Ljubljana, and Rome. He is a member of the COLLUVIO Chamber Music Project. Since 2017, Nemanja Belej has been a member of the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, positioned in the first tutti violins. He has received the Žeželjeva Prize and Merima Dragutinović Award.

UROŠ BOBIĆ, violist, started playing viola at the age of seven in the Dr Vojislav Vučković Music School in Belgrade, under Professor Biljana Stevanović. After finishing primary music school, in secondary school he studied viola under Professor Jovan Stojanović. Uroš Bobić completed his undergraduate studies at the Music Academy in 2007, under Professor Panta Veličković, and, a year later, his master’s studies in Norway at the University of Agder, under prominent Professor Terje Moe Hansen. During his studies and afterwards, he was a member of the Symphony Orchestra of the Serbian Broadcasting Corporation, before passing an audition to become a permanent member of the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra in 2013, allowing him the opportunity to collaborate with world renowned conductors and soloists such as Zubin Mehta, Gabriel Feltz, Muhai Tang, Howard Griffiths, Nemanja Radulović, Julian Rachlin, and others.

NEMANJA STANKOVIĆ, cellist, finished secondary music school as the best pupil in his generation, under Professor Boža Saramandić. He graduated from the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, under Professor Sandra Belić, and obtained his master’s degree from the Wien Konservatorium Privatuniversität, under Professor Natalia Gutman. Nemanja Stanković also attended postgraduate studies at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, under Professor Enrico Bronzi, as well as in Florence, while in 2015 he completed his doctoral studies at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, becaming the youngest Doctor of Performing Arts in Serbia. He has been a finalist and won prizes at numerous international competitions, while in 2007 ArtLink declared him most promising young artist in Serbia. As a soloist, he has performed with multiple symphony, philharmonic, and chamber orchestras, collaborating with prominent conductors, as well as with renowned soloists in chamber ensembles. Since 2011, Nemanja Stanković has worked as a solo cellist of the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, and since 2016 also served as solo cellist of the Strings of St. George Chamber Orchestra. He is an Assistant Professor of Cello at the Faculty of Arts in Niš. He plays a Carlos Roberts instrument from Cremona (2012).