Jean-Samuel Bez, violin and Sanja Donić, piano

Concert “Whispering Storms: Beethoven & Tchaikovski” is part of the 23rd Festival “Donne in musica”.

Program:
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonata for violin & piano No. 9 in A major, Op. 47 (“Kreutzer”)
Adagio sostenuto – Presto
Andante con variazioni
Finale – Presto

Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky
Souvenir d’un lieu cher, for violin and piano, Op. 42
Meditation
Scherzo
Melodie

Olivera Vojna Nešić
In modo barbaresco

Biographies:

Primarily devoted to chamber music, violinist Jean-Samuel Bez performs more than 100 concerts per year throughout the world. He is particularly drawn to contemporary creation and enjoys venturing off the beaten path. His discography includes Fantaisies (2022, Klarthe) with Jean-Luc Therrien, Étincelles (2025, Passavant) with Louise Akili, and Secrets (2025, Klarthe) as part of the Paganini in Paris project with Raphaël Béreau. A member of the Trio Spilliaert since 2016, he has recorded monographs dedicated to Désiré Pâque (2021, Cyprès) and Jacqueline Fontyn (2022, Cybele), as well as Augusta (2023) with the Sonic Gate collective. He also collaborates on stage and on record with the icelandic band Árstíðir.
Artistic director of the SineMuro Festival and coordinator of the Sotiropoulos Camerata, he has received numerous prizes and international awards, including First Prize at the Luigi Zanuccoli International Competition (Italy, 2017). He studied with Igor Volochine, Pavel Vernikov, and Véronique Bogaerts before completing his training at the University of Music Vienna under Michael Frischenschlager.

Sanja Donić was born in 1994 in Smederevska Palanka (Serbia). She finished secondary music school as a student of the generation and then basic piano studies at the FILUM, Kragujevac as a student of the generation. She completed her master’s and specialist studies in piano with the highest grades, as well as doctoral academic studies in piano at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade. She is the recipient of numerous scholarships from the Republic of Serbia. She won several prizes at piano competitions, and as an active solo and chamber performer, she gave a series of concerts in all important art institutions in the country. She is an active participant in the courses of Prof. Jurij Kot (Ukraine) and prof. Boris Kraljević (Singapore). She attended the course of Prof. Giuseppe Albanese (Trieste, Italy), 2019 and the course of Prof. Mikhail Arkadiev (St. Petersburg, Russia), 2022.
Since 2016, she has been employed as a piano teacher at the Dr Miloje Milojević School of Music in Kragujevac. She has been active in the Association of Women in Music (Donne in musica) as an organizer, jury member and performer since 2021. Representing the Association, she gave a recitals in Ancona (Italy) in July 2022 and Luxembourg in March 2023. Since 2024, Sanja is regularly performs with violinist Jean-Samuel Bez.