Tijana Nikolić, violin and Radan Jovanović, piano

Program:
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Valse-scherzo, Op. 34

Eugène Ysaÿe
Sonata for violin solo No. 2 in A minor, Op. 27/2 (Obsession)
Obsession – Prelude
Malinconia
Danse des ombres – Sarabande
Les Furies

Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonata for violin & piano No. 7 in C minor, Op. 30/2 (Eroica)
Allegro con brio
Adagio cantabile
Scherzo – Allegro
Finale – Allegro

Biographies:
Tijana Nikolić is a violinst and chamber musician born in Belgrade in 2001. Her expression is met at the cross of traditional performance, contemporary touch and expressive sensibility.
She graduated and finished Master studies at the Faculty of music in Belgrade in 2026, where her results showed with high success rates. When it comes to music, she is focused on violin, but also actively researches other string instruments and piano. That brings a width to her expression and special interest for different performing perspectives.
Since she was 7 her performance was trained through concerts, competitions and festivals, bringing high awards home.
During previous artistic work she performed as a soloist across Belgrade and Balkan, both with piano and orchestra, a chamber musician and a member of certain orchestras (Orchestra “Virtuosos”, Camerata Serbika, National theatre, Belgrade Symphony Orhcestra..).
Best concerts she remembers were at Berlin Konzerthaus in 2023, when she performed as a Concertmaster with WBYO, Sofia Philharmonic in 2022, in a chamber ensemble and renowned violinist Svetlin Roussev and Sarajevo in 2017, a solo concert with renowned violinist Jovan Kolundzija and Children Philharmonic.
Attention on the solo performance has brought her to development of presenting a piece as a whole artistic and emotional experience.
In her work she nurtures technical precision, freedom of expression and contemporary approach to classical music.

Radan Jovanović is a pianist and conductor, born in 1990 in Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia. As a conductor, he has collaborated with Serbia’s most renowned symphony ensembles, including the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra and the Symphony Orchestra of Radio Television of Serbia. As both a conductor and pianist (as a soloist, member of chamber ensembles, and collaborative pianist), he has performed in Belgrade, Novi Sad, and other cities in Serbia, as well as in Italy, Germany, Belgium, Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Croatia. He has also conducted other domestic and international ensembles, including Camerata Kronstadt (Brașov, Romania), the Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra dei Cento Giovani (Italy), the New Music Ensemble “Gradilište,” and the Jewish Chamber Orchestra (Belgrade). In addition to his work with instrumental ensembles, he has also worked as a choral conductor with the Obilić Choir of AKUD Branko Krsmanović and the “Braća Baruh” Choir from Belgrade. He completed his undergraduate and master’s studies at the Faculty of Music of the University of Arts in Belgrade, majoring in piano in the class of Professor Ninoslav Živković. He subsequently continued his conducting studies and professional development with Professors Colin Metters (United Kingdom), Ronald Colman (Belgium), Cristian Oroșanu (Romania), Cristian Mandeal (Romania), Bojan Suđić (Serbia), and Roberto Duarte (Brazil). He is the founder of the Belgrade Symphonists, a symphony orchestra that evolved from a student orchestra into one of the youngest professional orchestral ensembles in Serbia. Since its founding in 2014, he has served as its Artistic Director and Chief Conductor. With this ensemble, he has conducted numerous performances of instrumental and vocal-instrumental works, including the final concerts of the Isidor Bajić Memorial Piano Competition in Novi Sad and the Lazar Jovanović Vocal Competition in Belgrade. In collaboration with the Belgrade Symphonists and the Obilić Choir of AKUD Branko Krsmanović, he conducted the Belgrade premiere of Michael Haydn’s Requiem at the Madlenianum Theatre in 2018. He has collaborated with soloists including Lovre Marušić, piano (Croatia); Levon Avagyan, piano (Armenia); Polina Sasko, piano (Ukraine); Oksana Shevchenko, piano (Kazakhstan); Bogdan Dugalić, piano (Serbia); Igor Lazić, French horn (Serbia); Aleksandra Jovanović, soprano; Stevan Karanac, tenor; and others. From January 2015 to February 2023, he was employed as a répétiteur at the Josip Slavenski Music School in Belgrade. Since February 2023, he has worked as an artistic associate (collaborative pianist) at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Priština, temporarily based in Kosovska Mitrovica.