Ana Kaličanin Radivojević, flute and Filip Milisavljević, piano

Ana has been Solo Flute at the “Tonkünstler Orchestra” in Vienna and is a Teaching Assistant to Prof. Ljubiša Jovanović at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade. She will be joined by pianist Filip Milisavljević at the concert in the Artget Gallery.

Program:
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sonata for flute and continuo in E minor, BWV 1034 (excerpt)
I Adagio ma non tanto
II Allegro

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Allegro maestoso from Flute Concerto No. 1 in G major, K. 313

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Concerto for flute, strings and continuo in D minor
Allegro
Un poco andante
Allegro di molto

Sergey Prokofiev
Sonata for flute and piano in D major, Op. 94 (excerpt)
I Moderato
II Scherzo – Presto

Jacques Ibert
Allegro scherzando from Flute Concerto

Paul Taffanel
Fantaisie for flute and piano on Themes from Weber’s Der Freischütz

Biographies:
Ana Kaličanin Radivojević (Belgrade, 1990) is one of the most prominent flutists of her generation. She completed her bachelor and master studies at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade in the class of Prof. Lj. Jovanović, where she is currently a doctoral student. She obtained her Magister diploma at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna in the class of Prof. B. Gisler-Haase and Prof. W. Auer, and continued her studies at the University of Arts in Graz in the class of Prof. E. Klambauer.
She has won numerous prizes, including First Prizes at the “Anton Eberst” Competition (Serbia), “Ohrid Pearls” (North Macedonia), and “Young Virtuoso” (Bulgaria), as well as Third Prize at the international wind instrument competition “Intermusica” (Austria). She has also participated in many masterclasses with renowned flutists such as Emmanuel Pahud, Kersten McCall, Felix Renggli, Andrea Lieberknecht, Peter-Lukas Graf, Michael Köfler, Michel Debost, and Philippe Bernold.
Her performing career includes appearances with orchestras such as the “Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra” Amsterdam, the Hof Symphony Orchestra, the RTS Symphony Orchestra, and the Webern Symphony Orchestra Vienna, under the baton of conductors Zubin Mehta, Neeme Järvi, Semyon Bychkov, Gustavo Gimeno, Yutaka Sado, Gabriel Feltz, Stanislav Kochanovsky, and many others.
In 2024, she performed a solo concert and gave a masterclass at the Flute Festival in Qingdao, China, and was a jury member at the international competition “Finalis” in Białystok, Poland. She was a member of the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra as Second Flute from 2019 to 2021, and as Solo Flute from 2021 to 2024. Since 2024, Ana has been Solo Flute at the “Tonkünstler Orchestra” in Vienna and is a Teaching Assistant to Prof. Ljubiša Jovanović at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, which highlights her active orchestral and pedagogical role.

Filip Milisavljević  was born in Subotica in 1984. He gained his elementary and secondary music education at Subotica Music School where his piano teachers included Professors Kiš, Molcer and Gavrilyuk. He continued his education at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, majoring in Piano in the studio of Professor Vladimir Ogarkov and completing his undergraduate studies with the highest marks in 2011. He has taken part in numerous national and international competitions, winning prizes both as a soloist and as a piano collaborator. He has been an active participant at a number of master classes led by Professors Kemal Gekić, Miroslava Lili Petrović, Vladimir Ogarkov, Svetlana Bogino, and Boris Kraljević, to name a few. He has realized successful collaborations with esteemed professors (I. Kalman, M. Teshima, Č. Zima, G. Bunford, Z. Krajišnik, L. Levai Aksin, etc.) of various institutions, acting as a chamber musician, collaborative pianist, and orchestral musician at concerts, seminars, and recording sessions, and has performed as a soloist and a member of the orchestra under the baton of Miroslav Homen, Berislav Skenderović, Elvira Husar, Aleksandar Kojić, etc. He is employed as a collaborative pianist at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad.