Sanja Stijačić is a Serbian flutist and Associate Professor of Flute at the University of Pristina (Kosovska Mitrovica) and University of East Sarajevo.

Education

She graduated (1990) and completed her postgraduate  studies (1998) with the highest marks, from the University of Novi Sad Academy of Arts

University of Novi Sad

The University of Novi Sad is a university located in Novi Sad, the capital of Serbian province of Vojvodina and the second largest city in Serbia....

, where she studied with Professor Marijan Egić. Additionally, she studied in Basel

Basel

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, with Professor Aurèl Nicolet.

During her studies, Ms. Stijačić won top prizes at several state's and federal competitions.

Performance career

As a soloist

Solo (music)

In music, a solo is a piece or a section of a piece played or sung by a single performer...

 and member of chamber music

Chamber music

Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers with one performer to a part...

 ensembles, Ms. Stijačić has performed in numerous concert

Concert

A concert is a live performance before an audience. The performance may be by a single musician, sometimes then called a recital, or by a musical ensemble, such as an orchestra, a choir, or a musical band...

s in Yugoslavia and abroad (USSR, Hungary, Turkey, Greece, Switzerland, Romania, etc.) and took part in programs of prestige festivals

Music festival

A music festival is a festival oriented towards music that is sometimes presented with a theme such as musical genre, nationality or locality of musicians, or holiday. They are commonly held outdoors, and are often inclusive of other attractions such as food and merchandise vending machines,...

 in former Yugoslavia, such as: international music festival

Music festival

A music festival is a festival oriented towards music that is sometimes presented with a theme such as musical genre, nationality or locality of musicians, or holiday. They are commonly held outdoors, and are often inclusive of other attractions such as food and merchandise vending machines,...

s BEMUS

BEMUS

Founded in 1969, the Belgrade Music Festival – BEMUS is the oldest and the most prominent music festival in Serbia and one of the most distinctive classical music festivals in the South-Eastern Europe...

 and NOMUS

Nomus

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, Budva grad teatar (in Budva

Budva

Budva is a coastal town in Montenegro. It has around 15,000 inhabitants, and it is the centre of municipality...

), Brankovo kolo (named after Branko Radičević

Branko Radicevic

Branko Radičević , an influential Serbian poet, within a short space of time contrived to enhance Serbian literature with several perennially attractive poems.- Biography:...

), Dubrovnik Summer Festival

Dubrovnik Summer Festival

The Dubrovnik Summer Festival In a unique ambient of open and closed scenes of Renaissance-Baroque city of Dubrovnik a rich programme of classical music, theatre, opera and dance is presented.-External links:*...

, Sarajevska zima and others.

She also played with such orchestras as the Symphony

Symphony

A symphony is an extended musical composition in Western classical music, scored almost always for orchestra. A symphony usually contains at least one movement or episode composed according to the sonata principle...

 Orchestra of the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, Opera Orchestra

Orchestra

An orchestra is a sizable instrumental ensemble that contains sections of string, brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. The term orchestra derives from the Greek ορχήστρα, the name for the area in front of an ancient Greek stage reserved for the Greek chorus...

 of the Serbian National Theatre

Serbian National Theatre

The Serbian National Theatre , located in Novi Sad, is one of the major theatres of Serbia...

, Philharmonic Orchestra of Vojvodina

Vojvodina

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, etc.

In recent years, Sanja Stijačić took part in several multimedia

Multimedia

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l projects.

She has collaborated with such artists as: pianist

Pianist

A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers.-Choice of genres:...

s Dubravka Jovičić, Dragica Toskić, Denis Gavrić, soprano

Soprano

A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately middle C to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which usually encompasses the melody...

 Aneta Ilić, violin

Violin

The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....

ist Vladimir Koh

Vladimir Koh

Vladimir Koh is a Serbian violinist and university professor.-Education:Vladimir Koh started his musical training as a double major student at the Josip Slavenski School of Music in Belgrade. In the year 1980, he entered the Faculty of Music in Belgrade as the first in the rank...

, poet Lidija Nikčević, sculptor Peko Nikčević

Peko Nikcevic

Peko Nikčević is a Montenegrin sculptor and professor at the University of Pristina Faculty of Arts, in North Kosovo.-Notes and references:Notes:References:...

, actors Rada Đuričin and Miša Janketić, and many others. She performed at author evenings of composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

s Aleksandra Vrebalov

Aleksandra Vrebalov

Aleksandra Vrebalov is a Serbian composer based in New York City. She studied composition with Miroslav Statkic at Novi Sad University, then with Zoran Erić at Belgrade University, Elinor Armer at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and Ivana Loudova at the Prague Academy of Music...

 and Senad Gačević.

She made recordings for the Radio-Television of Novi Sad, Radio-Television of Belgrade

Radio Television of Serbia

Radio Television of Serbia or Serbian Broadcasting Corporation is the public broadcaster in Serbia. It broadcasts and produces a variety of news, drama, and sports programming through radio, television and the Internet. RTS is, since July 2001, a member of the European Broadcasting Union. RTS is...

, and Radio-Television of Pristina

Pristina

Pristina, also spelled Prishtina and Priština is the capital and largest city of Kosovo. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous municipality and district....

.

Sanja Stijačić has been the artistic director of the International Chamber Music Festival in Nikšić

Nikšić

Nikšić is a city in Montenegro . In 2003 the city had a total population about 75,000.Nikšić is located in Nikšić plain, at the foot of Mount Trebjesa. It is the center of the municipality , which is the largest in Montenegro by area...

, Montenegro

Montenegro

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.

Teaching career

Since 1996, Stijačić has been teaching at the University of Pristina Faculty of Arts

Faculty of Arts in Priština

The Faculty of Arts of Pristina is the faculty of arts of the University of Pristina in North Kosovo.- History :The Faculty was founded in Pristina in 1973 as the Academy of Arts and got the present name in 1986. During the Kosovo War of 1999 it was moved, first to Varvarin and later to Zvečan and...

, in North Kosovo

North Kosovo

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, Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija, Serbia

Serbia

Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...

, where she currently serves as an Associate Professor of Flute

Flute

The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...

. She has been also teaching at the University of East Sarajevo

University of East Sarajevo

University of East Sarajevo is a public university located in east part of East Sarajevo city, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is derived from the University of East Sarajevo....

 Academy of Music, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina , sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina or simply Bosnia, is a country in Southern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina is almost landlocked, except for the...

. Her students from both universities

University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university is an organisation that provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education...

 won numerous prizes at various musical competitions.

She has been a member or president of many juries at classical music

Classical music

Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...

competitions in the sections of Flute and Chamber Music.

External links

• University of Pristina Faculty of Arts
• University of East Sarajevo
• University of Novi Sad Academy of Arts