VLAJIC, Smiljana

Smiljana Vlajić (b. 1971, Serbia) is a composer, doctor of arts and full professor at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad. Besides her work in the fields of composition and music pedagogy, she is also active as a music theorist and researcher of contemporary artistic currents. As a director of the Cultural Center of Vojvodina Miloš Crnjanski she currates and produces numerous concerts, conferences, workshops and other cultural programmes in Serbia and abroad. She is very involved in collaboration with the organisations of Serbian people in diaspora and with national associations in South African Republic, Timisoara, Budapest, Vienna, Paris… creating collaborative programmes.

She is a visiting professor at several arts academies in Serbia and abroad.

Her most frequently performed works include Trio for oboe, clarinet and bassoon; Variations for oboe, clarinet and bassoon; String Quartet; Igra volhova for violin and cello; Tabula smaragdina for mixed choir, orchestra and electronics; symphonic poems Igra utrnule stvarnosti and Opus Alchemicum; Kuća odbeglih ideja for string orchestra; Devana for flute and string orchestra; Perun je samo na kratko zaspao, multimedia project; Ladina kletva for piano;