VELKOVSKA-TRAJANOVSKA, Valentina

North Macedonian composer of mostly chamber, choral and vocal works that have been performed in Europe and elsewhere.

Ms. Velkovska-Trajanovska studied at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje from 1995–2001 and there earned her BMus in music theory and pedagogy. She also studied composition there with Tome Mančev and Tomislav Zografski from 1997–2004, where she graduated with highest honours, and where she had postgraduate studies in orchestration with Tome Mančev from 2002–06 and earned her MMus.

Among her honours are the 50 Years of Ss. Cyril and Methodius University Prize (2000, for In Silence, Secret and Hear Me, Mother) and two prizes in the competition A Place on the Disc of Jeunesses Musicales of North Macedonia (2000, for Holy Land; 2004, for Omen). Her music has been performed in the Czech Republic, France, North Macedonia, Serbia, the UK, and the USA.

She is also active in other positions. She worked as a music editor and music journalist for North Macedonian Television from 1996–2003 and as a music journalist for North Macedonian Radio from 1998–2003. She is a member of the board of presidents of the composers society SOCOM in Skopje and a member of the assembly of the copyright society ZAMP in Skopje.

She has taught solfège as an assistant to Snežana Dimčevska and orchestration as an assistant to Tome Mančev at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University since 2003. She has taught analysis, composition, form, harmony, orchestration, polyphony, and 20th-century music literature as a professor at the Goce Delčev University of Štip since 2007.