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Milica Žižić, soprano (Serbia)
Jovanka Višekruna Janković, piano

Kristina Antić, cello (Serbia)
Tea Andrejić, piano

Programme:
George Gershwin:
By Strauss
The man l love
l got rhythm
Georges Bizet: “L’amour est un oiseau rebelle”, Carmen’s aria from Carmen
Jules Massnet: Nuit d’Espagne
Francesco Paolo Tosti:
Penso
Marechiare
Giacomo Puccini: Avanti, Urania!
Lucio Dalla: Caruso
Josip Slavenski: Mesec
Josip Hatze: Serenada
Stanisalo Gastaldon: Musica proibita
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Johann Sebastian Bach: Cello Suite No. 3 in C major, BWV 1009
Claude Debussy: Cello Sonata in D minor
Gioachino Rossini: Une larme

Milica Žižić was born in Podgorica. She received her primary and secondary musical education at the Vasa Pavić Music School. She is currently a fourth-year voice student at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, in the class of tenor Nikola Kitanovski. She has won numerous prizes at international competitions and festivals at home and abroad, including the Festival of Young Artists in Podgorica in 2019, the Lav Mirski International Singing Competition 2019, the Nikola Cvejić International Singing Competition 2019 and the Lazar Jovanović International Opera Competition 2018. In her home country she has appeared in La bohème  (Crnogorsko narodno pozorište /Montenegro National Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream  (Herceg Novi) and San o mikrokozmi  (Muzički centar Crne gore / Montenegro Music Centre). She is active as a concert performer both at home and abroad. She has worked with the Orkestar Srpskog narodnog pozorišta Novi Sad (Orchestra of the Serbian National Theatre) in Novi Sad, the Umetnički ansambel Ministarstva odbrane Stanislav Binički (Stanislav Binički Ensemble of the Ministry of Defence) in Belgrade and the Orkestar Fakulteta muzičke umetnosti Beograd (Orchestra of the Faculty of Music) in Belgrade. In January 2024 she appeared at the prestigious St Sava’s Ball at the Hofburg in Vienna. She appeared as Ida in the Belgrade Faculty of Music Opera Studio’s production of the operetta Die Fledermaus, conducted by Srboljub Srba Dinić, on the main stage of the Narodno pozorište Beograd (National Theatre in Belgrade). She has also appeared as Stanka in the opera Na uranku (At Dawn) by Stanislav Binički. She has performed at concerts in Belgrade and Tirana as part of the ArtLink Festival.

Jovanka Višekruna Janković, pianist, graduated from the University of Arts in Belgrade with a Master of Arts degree. Simultaneously, she completed her postgraduate studies at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest in the class of Lazlo Baranyay and participated in numerous master classes and workshops of the famous pedagogues and pianists Amadeus Webersinke, Arbo Valdma, Mira Jevtić, Igor Lazko. She performed at numerous recitals and multidisciplinary projects in her home country including the management of the Serbian concert tour, and abroad, including solo recitals in France, Italy, Hungary, Montenegro, Greece, Bulgaria, Macedonia and Canada. After being engaged as an assistant to professor of piano at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, for a number of years, and as the Vice President of the Young EPTA (European Piano Teachers Association) of Serbia, in 2004, Jovanka Višekruna Janković founded the association of artists ArtLink.

Kristina Antić was born in Ćuprija. She began her musical training at the age of eight at the School for Musical Talents in Ćuprija, graduating from Nevena Busarac’s class in 2022. She has given successful and enthusiastically applauded performances as a soloist at prestigious festivals in Serbia and abroad. She has performed in major concert venues throughout Serbia as well as in Bulgaria, Italy and other countries. She has won numerous first prizes and special prizes at national and international competitions. She has attended masterclasses with renowned cellists and teachers including Santiago Cañón-Valencia (Colombia), Stefan Popov (Bulgaria/UK), Michel Strauss (France), Kirill Rodin (Russia), Dejan Božić (Serbia), László Fenyő (Hungary) and Denis Severin (Switzerland). As a member of a string quartet, she has attended masterclasses with world-famous quartets including the Emerson String Quartet (USA), the Van Der Pals Quartet (Sweden) and the Aviv String Quartet (Israel). She performs regularly in Serbia as a member of various prestigious orchestras and in 2019 performed with the European Spirit of Youth Orchestra (ESYO) on a tour of Italian cities at the invitation of conductor Igor Coretti Kuret. She is currently a third-year student at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, in the class of Dragan Djordjević.