My life
Ivana Stefanović, composer
WE’RE LIVING IN A TIME OF LIES She is among the most important Yugoslav and Serbian composers of contemporary music, an essayist, a former successful director of BEMUS, the Belgrade Music Festival, and a former state secretary at the Ministry of Culture, but also one of the founders of the BUNT festival, which carries the motto ‘musical REBELLION [BUNT] against an obedient society’. Her grandfather was doctor, poet and translator Svetislav Stefanović, her grandmother was Milana Bota Stefanović, who studied pedagogy and psychology in Zurich and was a descendant of a family of minor nobles from Transylvania. Ivana is the daughter of aesthetician and writer Pavle Stefanović and professor of the piano Vera Bogdanović, while she is also the mother of a successful daughter
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he played the violin as a child and enrolled in the Music Academy at the age of 17. She was simply predestined to pursue a career in music. She never considered what she would do, as it was a given that she would deal with music. Her first student composition, Three Movements for Piano, was performed together with works by students of the Academy of Music Arts at a concert held in the building of the old Atelje
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