Dragan Djordjevic (Cello)
Press and critics have described him
as one of the most origin al performers of his
generation.
Dragan DorDevic was born in Yugoslavia. At the age
of six he started playing the violin (Suzuki method)
at the School for Musically Gifted Children in cuprija, but two
years later changed to the cello and received his first lessons from
Professor Relja cetkovic. Graduated from the Faculty of Music Arts
in Belgrade (class of Professor Sandra Belic) and won a special
prize from Belgrade University as the best student in his year.
The same year, he received a scholarship for his master’s degree
in London at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with
Professor Stefan Popov, where he completed his master’s with distinction. During
his studies in Great Britain he played with the London Symphony
Orchestra and was a guest principal cellist in the Northern
Sinfonia.
In 2002 Dragan met Young-Chang Cho and continued to study
under him at the Hochschule fьr Musik in Germany where
in 2005 he also received his Concert Diploma with distinction and special
honours. He has attend master-classes given by Mischa Maisky, Boris
Pergamenschikow, Alexander Fedorchenko, David Grigorian, Tobias Kьhne, David
Takeno and Stanislav Apolin as well as chamber music classes
of the Velinger, Takбcs, Melos and Alban Berg Quartets. He
has been a prize-winner at the Antonio Janigro International
Competition, the Orpheus Laureates competition, the Markneukirchen
Competition, the Jeunesses Musicales Competition in Belgrade,
the International Petar Konjovic Competition, the Cittа di Stresa
Competition and the Charver Soveoures Competition and has received
numerous other special awards.
As a soloist and chamber musician he
has performed in Holland, Sweden, South Korea, Romania, Austria,
Germany, Great Britain, Switzerland, Bulgaria and France and appeared
at international music festivals in cluding the BBC Proms,
the Festival d’Auvers-sur-Oise, the City of London Festival,
Ohrid Summer, the Belgrade Music Festival (BEMUS),
the Sion-Valais Festival directed by Shlomo Mintz,
the Laureates of Katya Popova festival, Zagreb Summer
Evenings, the Novi Sad Music Festival (NOMUS), Kotor
Art (Montenegro) and the International Cello Fest (Belgrade)
at which he is a member of the Artistic Board and
a programme selector.
He has performed with the Bergische
Symphoniker, the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra,
the Kammerphilharmonie Amadй, the Belgrade Radio Symphony Orchestra,
the Camerata Serbica, the Bamberg Chamber Orchestra, the St
George Strings ensemble, the Macedonian Symphony Orchestra,
the Symphony Orchestra of South-Eastern Europe, the Arte Chamber
Orchestra, the Pleven Philharmonic Orchestra and the Vojvodin a
Symphony Orchestra. He has collaborated with such musicians as Shlomo
Mintz, Itamar Golan, Mikhail Shcherbakov, Mincho Minchev, John Adams, Peter
Sculthorpe, Tan Dun, Nemanja Radulovic and Young Chil Lee among others. Dragan
is also a very passionate chamber musician, together with
the violinists Roman Simovic and Miloљ Petrovic and violist Branko Kabadaic
forming the Rubikon String Quartet, which following numerous successful
concerts and tours ranks itself as one of the leading quartets
of the musicians’ generation. In April 2011 he was honoured
to receive an invitation from maestro Valery Gergiev to play on several tours
as a guest principal cellist with the Mariinsky Symphony
Orchestra. Dragan is currently principal cellist with the Symphony
Orchestra of RTV Slovenia and a professor of cello
at the Faculty of Music Arts in Belgrade.
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