RANKOVIC, Jasna Veljanovic

Jasna Veljanović-Ranković (1980, Serbia) graduated in 2003 from the Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music, Department of Composition, in the class of Genadiy Lyashenko. Her graduation work Concerto for Piano and Orchestra was performed by the Symphony Orchestra of the Ukrainian Broadcasting Company. She took her master’s degree in 2007 at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade in the class of Vlastimir Trajković, with a composition titled Five Songs for Mezzo-soprano and Orchestra on the Verses of Aleksander Blok. She currently attends doctoral studies in Music Theory at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade under the mentorship of Professor Sonja Marinković.

Her oeuvre consists of chamber (for solo instruments and ensembles) and symphonic works. Lately, she is particularly occupied with chamber compositions for specific ensemble – Duel i romansa (Duel and Romance) for flute and accordion, Interrupted Passacaglia for flute, oboe, accordion and cello, A Dream Within A Dream for soprano and flute, Nemirne misli u noći (Restless Thoughts in a Night) for flute, oboe, saxophone and cello.

She is a teaching assistant at The Music Department of the Faculty of Philology and Arts in Kragujevac.