Dragana Jovanović

Dragana Jovanović is a conductor and associate professor of choral singing and conducting, as well as the vice dean for international cooperation and projects at the Faculty of Music Arts in Belgrade. She began her conducting career during her studies as a professor and conductor of the Mixed Choir and Symphony Orchestra at the Kosta Manojlović Music School in Zemun. She continued as an assistant conductor and conductor of the Academic Choir Obilić of the Academic Cultural-Artistic Society Branko Krsmanović, Mixed Choir and Symphony Orchestra of the Faculty of Music Arts in Belgrade, Mixed Choir of Radio Television of Serbia, and chief conductor of the Orchestra of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Serbia.

Her artistic work is directly associated with the Academic Choir Collegium musicum, with which she actively performs in the region and worldwide. The specificity of her artistic research lies in authorial projects that explore choral performance in interaction with the broader community, through establishing relationships between choral sound and movement, mise-en-scène, space, light, electronics, dramaturgy, visuals, etc. (Sirens, Mokranjac 1914 – 2014, Document: WATER, Snake Bride, African Sanctus, Three Sounds of Mokranjac, Shklovsky, Inter nos... and The Stolen Prince and the Lost Princess).
Dragana Jovanović is the author of books, professional papers, seminars, and workshops in the field of conducting and choral interpretation. She is also a participant in several strategic projects in the field of higher music education, aiming to enhance the competencies and entrepreneurial skills of academic musicians in Serbia for a more culturally engaged society.