VOJNOVIC, Ivana

Ivana Vojnović was born in Novi Sad in 1967. She graduated from the Primary and Secondary Music School "Isidor Bajić", piano department. She graduated in composition from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, in the class of professor and academician Dušan Radić. She received her master's degree from the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, Department of Music Theory and Analysis under the mentorship of Prof. Mirjana Živković and Prof. Svetislav Božić with the thesis "Piano Sonatas of Alexander Scriabin: From Tonality to Polycentric System". As a scholarship holder of the Government of the Republic of Greece, she stayed in Athens for a one-year professional training in Byzantine music. She has participated in scientific conferences in the field of music theory and analysis, and has published papers in professional journals. Ivana Vojnović composes music of various genres – solo-instrumental, vocal, chamber, concertante, symphonic and opera. She is the winner of the international competition of the American-Australian record label Ablaze Records, for the orchestral composition Sinfonietta, which was recorded by the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra and maestro Robert Kružík. She has reached the quarter-finals of the Classic Pure Vienna International Composition Competition in Vienna. She has released five CD releases:

Wind Quintet No.1 (Music of Serbian Composers for Wind Quintet, Sokoj, 2018)
Nocturne for string orchestra (Novi Sad Composers no.1, Reconnection, 2020)
Flow for Wind Quintet (Wind Quintets: Vrebalov, Bruči, Kiralj, Vojnović, Sokoj, 2022)
Sinfonietta for symphony orchestra (Orchestral masters no.8, Ablaze Records, 2022)
Miniature for two pianos (Novi Sad: several sketches, some paintings and one interpretation, Re-connection, 2022)

She is a member of the Association of Composers of Vojvodina.