23rd International Festival “Ars vivendi clavicembalum” – JASMINA RAKOVIĆ
The 23rd International Festival Harpsichord, Living Art will be opened by Jasmina Raković, who recently completed her master’s studies in harpsichord at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana. She will present a program Female Voices Through the Centuries, featuring works by female composers spanning from the 17th century to the present day.
We are organizing the concert with the support of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Program:
Elisabeth Jacquette de la Guerre (1665–1729)
Suite for harpsichord in D minor
Prélude
Allemande
Courante I, Courante II
Sarabande
Gigue
Cannaris
Chaconne L’Inconstante
Menuet
Gambarini, Elisabetta de (1731–1765)
Tambourin, Op. 2, No. 7
Anna Bon di Venezia (1738-1767)
Sonata in F major, Op. 2, No. 3
Allegretto
Adagio
Minuetto
Marianne von Martinez (1744–1812)
Sonata in A major
Allegro
Rondo – Adagio
Tempo di Menuetto
Mel Bonis (1858–1937)
Menuet, Op. 14
Cécile Chaminade (1857–1944)
Guitare, Op. 32
Amy Beach (1867–1944)
Scherzino A Peterborough Chipmunk, Op. 128, No. 1
Errollyn Wallen (1958)
Louis’ Loops
Ana Gnjatović (1984)
22 Ways
Urška Pompe (1969)
Quia ergo femina (Antifona after Hildegard of Bingen)
Biography:
Jasmina Raković (Belgrade) is a pianist and harpsichordist based in Slovenia. She studied piano at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade and the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, and completed both her undergraduate and master’s degrees in harpsichord in the class of Egon Mihajlović at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana. She holds a doctorate in chamber music from the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, where she worked under the supervision of Dejan Subotić. As part of her doctoral artistic project in 2025, she performed the complete chamber music output of Ljubica Marić involving piano, developing an original approach to the systematisation of musical motifs and their realisation in performance.
As a soloist, chamber musician and collaborative pianist, Raković has performed at festivals including Sona Mollet (Spain), Piano Summer, Piano City, Piano Fest, Constantinus, Oktoh and the International Review of Composers. Among her notable engagements was an appearance as a collaborative pianist at a reception held during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Serbia in 2016.
As a harpsichordist, she participated in the Bach for Peace project in Rome in 2024, under the artistic direction of Frederick Haas, performing Bach’s Harpsichord Concertos BWV 1052 and BWV 1060 as a soloist. She has also participated in masterclasses with Chiara Tiboni and Bernhardt Klapprott.
In 2019, marking the 200th anniversary of Clara Schumann’s birth, Raković organised the three-day festival Clara Schumann – A Woman Ahead of Her Time in Belgrade, with the support of the Goethe-Institut. In 2021, she organised the musical programme for the interdisciplinary project The First Educated Women in Serbia, dedicated to the composer Ljubica Marić. In 2024, she participated in a recording of a CD featuring the complete piano works of Vladan Radovanović, a leading figure in Serbian avant-garde and modernist music and the founder of Radio Belgrade’s Electronic Studio.