Program of the 53rd Festival

SATURDAY – SEPTEMBER 15th

Town Square
Festival display
Exhibition of photographs
ARLEMM – art caravan
* In cooperation with  Association for expansion and
encouragement of music culture in Serbia MUZIKUS

17:00 Birth house of Mokranjac

Grand Opening of the Festial

– Laying flowers at the monument of Stevan St. Mokranjac
– Welcome speech: Vladimir Veličković, President of Negotin Municipality
– Oration: Aja Jung, Director of the Belgrade Dance Festival
– Festival opening: Ivana Dedić, assistant of the Minister of Culture and Information
– Joint performance of choir Competition participants, choir Collegium Musicum Catholicum and Negotin choirs
– Stevan St. Mokranjac – The Sixth Garland

18:00 Cultural Centre’s Gallery
Paintings exhibition: Miloš Šobajić
From the collection of the art gallery Radionica duše

19:00 Cultural Centre

Choirs competition

1. Women’s Choir of the Music Academy in Cetinje, Cetinje (Montenegro)
Conductor: Aleksandra Knežević
2. Choir Rozafa Еxpression,  Shkoder (Albania)
Conductor: Zef Çoba
3. The mixed choir CAS Jevnica, Jevnica (Slovenia)
Conductor: Katarina Trček Marušič
4. The choir of St. George’s Church, Belgrade (Serbia)
Conductor: Emilija Milin
5. Choir Milka Stoeva, Burgas (Bulgaria)
Conductor: Svetla Stoeva

Jury:

1.Prof. Sonja Marinković, PhD, musicologist
2.Miloje Niikolić, PhD, conductor
3.Tamara Adamov Petijević, MA, conductor

SUNDAY– SEPTEMBER 16th

8:00 Church of the Holy Trinity, Negotin
Divine Liturgy
Choir of the Holy Trinity Church, Negotin
Conductor: Svetlana Kravčenko

11:00  Town Square
Concert: Classical music at 11
Participants of the choirs’ competition

14:00 Church of the Holy Trinity courtyard, Mokranje

Threads of tradition
– in honour of the 60th anniversary of Radio Belgrade 2

Participants:
– Stefan Radovanović, Metovnica near Bor
Winner of the award Golden Apple at the 30th  National Assembly of pipers in Prislonica
– CAS Mokranjac, Mokranje
– CAS Stevan Mokranjac, Negotin
* In cooperation with Radio Belgrade 2

19:00  Cultural Centre’s Gallery
Paintings exhibition: Echo of the music
20th Art Colony of the Cultural Centre

20:00 Church of the Holy Trinity, Negotin
Concert:
Choir Collegium Musicum Catholicum, Subotica
Conductor: Miroslav Stantić
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MONDAY – SEPTEMBER 17th

11:00  Town Square
Concert: Classical music at 11
Children’s Choir Vivak-2015, Negotin
Conductor: Dragana Marinović-Simonović

17:00 Birth house of Mokranjac
Exhibition on life and work of Petar Stojanović
Renaissance of the forgotten Petar Stojanović
Curator and lecturer: Nataša Špaček

19:00 Krajina Cinema Stage
Concert:
Piano quintet Altro Senso

Nataša Špaček (piano)
Tea Petrović Balint (violin)
Bojana Jovanović Jotić (violin)
Jovan Stojanović (viola)
Dušan Kočišević (cello)

21.00 Cultural Centre
Musical: Bollywood
National theatre Belgrade
Text and director: Maja Pelević
Music: Anja Djordjević

TUESDAY – SEPTEMBER 18th

10:00 Art School Stevan Mokranjac
Conductors’ Seminar:
From the Traditional to the Innovative
Miloje Nikolić, PhD, conductor
Tamara Adamov Petijević, MA, conductor

11:00  Town Square
Concert: Classical music at 11
Choir of the Primary Music school at Art school Stevan Mokranjac,  Negotin
Conductor: Aleksandra Djukić
Piano accompanist: Kristina Djukić

12:00 Birth house of Mokranjac
Panel discussion: Sound Workshop
Ivana Stefanović – radiophonic poem
A Large Stone (Prix Italia award, 2017)
Participants:
Ivana Stefanović, author
Ana Kotevska, musicologist
* In cooperation with Radio Belgrade 2

18:00 Residence of Prince Todorče
Exhibition Archaeoacoustic: sacred architecture of medieval Serbia
Authors: Zorana Djordjević,
Dragan Novković and Marija Dragišić
* In cooperation with the Museum Krajina, Negotin

20:00 Cultural Centre
Concert:
Ensemble Metamorphosis, Belgrade
artistic director Saša Mirković, viola

22:00 Cultural Centre’s Gallery
Book promotion: In harmony with Mokranjac
Author: Vlasta Mladenović
Publisher: Serbian Literary Cooperative
* In cooperation with the National Library Dositej Novakovic, Negotin

WEDNESDAY– SEPTEMBER 19th

10:00 Art School Stevan Mokranjac
Conductors’ Seminar:
From the Traditional to the Innovative
Miloje Nikolić, PhD, conductor
Tamara Adamov Petijević, MA, conductor

11:00 Town Square
Concert: Classical music at 11
Choir Vox Dunaris, Turn Severin (Romania)
Conductor: Professor Viorel Dorin Bala

12.00 Birth house of Mokranjac
Scientific panel
Topic: Handling in the choral works of Mokranjac’s successors of the second half of the 20th century
Lecturer: Saša Božidarević, PhD, full professor
at the Faculty of Arts of the Prishtina University with a temporary headquarters in Kosovska Mitrovica

20:00  Cultural Centre
Concert: My Song (Evening of Serbian Аrt Songs)
Snežana Savičić Sekulić, soprano
Iva Mrvoš Anokić, mezzo-soprano
Strahinja Djokić, piano

22.00 Birth house of Mokranjac
Concert: Evening serenade
Saša Mirković, viola
Nach Bach + 1 – compositions by Serbian authors inspired by the Bach’s cello suits

THURSDAY– SEPTEMBER 20th

10:00 Art School Stevan Mokranjac
Conductors’ Seminar:
From the Traditional to the Innovative
Miloje Nikolić, PhD, conductor
Tamara Adamov Petijević, MA, conductor

11:00  Town Square
Concert: Classical music at 11
Choir of the Primary school Vuk Karadžić, Negotin
Conductor: Tanja Milosavljević

12.00 Birth house of Mokranjac
Promotion of the monograph:
80 years of the Faculty of Music Arts
Author: Ivana Perković, PhD

19.00 Krajina Cinema Stage
Concert: Vocal ensemble Constantine, Niš

20.00 Foyer of the Cultural Centre
Concert: Choir of participants of the conductors’ seminar
From the Traditional to the Innovative

21.00  Cultural Centre
Concert: Vlatko Stefanovski trio

Vlatko Stefanovski, guitar
Djoko Maksimovski, bass guitar
Dino Milosavljević, drums

FRIDAY– SEPTEMBER 21st

11:00  Foyer of the Cultural Centre
Concert: Classical music at 11
Students of the Small School of Opera d’Iva
An excerpt from singing play: That’s how it happened
Mentor: Iva Mrvoš Anokić, mezzo-soprano

13.00 Birth house of Mokranjac
Panel discussion: Sound Workshop
Tanja Radujević Susa
Studenica – Dveri Svetog Save
* In cooperation with Radio Belgrade 2

20:00  Cultural Centre
Concert: Karl Orff – Carmina Burana
RTS Symphony  Orchestra and Choir
Children’s choirs from Negotin
Soloists:
Aleksandra Jovanović, soprano
Dragutin Matić, baritone
Aleksandar Tolimir, tenor
Conductor: Bojan Sudjic

21:30  Cultural Centre
The Closing Ceremony of the Festival
Presentation of The 53rd Days of Mokranjac awards
Closing speech: Sonja Marinković, PhD, selector
Closing of the Festival: Vladimir Veličković, Negotin Municipality President