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5th Concert of the International Music Cycle
MILICA ZULUS, violin
UKI OVASKAINEN, piano
MARIJA RADOVANOVIĆ, violin
UKI OVASKAINEN, piano
Programme
L. van Beethoven: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 5 in F major, Op. 24
F. Kreisler: Recitativo und Scherzo-Caprice, Op. 6
F. Kreisler: Zigeuner-Capriccio
F. Waxman: Carmen Fantasie
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A. Schnittke: Suite in Old Style for Violin and Piano, Op. 80
J. Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108
C. Saint-Saëns: Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso in A Minor, Op. 2
Milica Zulus was born in 1999 in Vienna. She started playing the violin at the age of 4 and attended the class of Prof. M. Sorokowa at the University of Music in Vienna. Since 2015 she is a regular bachelor-student in Konzertfach Violine, in the class of Prof. G. Schulz, at the University of Music in Vienna. Before winning the European Violin Competition Alfredo e Vanda Marcosig in Gorizia/Italy (1. Prize; 2008), Milica Zulus won several national competitions in Austria. She has been playing numerous concerts in the Wiener Konzerthaus (Mozartsaal, Schubertsaal) and in the main hall of the Kolarčeva Zadužbina/Belgrade, among them also accompanied by orchestra. She played, among other, in the Sava Centar (Belgrade), in the Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti (Belgrade), in the Glazbeni zavod (Zagreb), in the Primacialny palac (Bratislava) in the Teatro Malibran (Venice), in the Stanislavski Theatre at the festival of the Spivakov-Foundation (Moscow), at the Chopin Festival/Gaming (Austria) and numerous concerts at the Art Link Festival (Belgrade). In february 2018 she played the violin concerto by P. I. Tchaikovsky with the RTS Symphony Orchestra in Belgrade, in cooperation with conductor Bojan Suđić. Besides solistical activity, she plays intensively chamber music as well.
Marija Radovanović was born in 2001 in Belgrade, Serbia. She has played violin since the age of 7 in Music school „Petar Konjovic“ in the prof. D. Mladenovic. Since september 2015. she has been student of Music school „Vatroslav Lisinski“ in Belgrade. Since june 2016 she has been a regular student in the class for higly gifted children of prof. E. Percan at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, Austria. She has won many awards at various competitions. The most important are first prize at „Ohrid pearls“ EMCY competition in Ohrid, Macedonia (2016) and second prizes at Kocian Violin C Competition Usti nad Orlici – Czech Republic (2017) and International Festival of Musical Creativity „Earth is our common home“ – Ekaterinburg, Russia (2017) She has also won first prizes at Serbian National Competition (2014, 2015, 2016, 2018), and third prizes at Kocian Violin Competition Usti nad Orlici – Czech Republic (2015) and International competition of young musicians „Petar Konjovic“ EMCY Belgrade – Serbia (2013). She made her debut with orchestra at the age of nine in Serbia and played with Graz University Orchestra in june 2017 and „Camerata Musica“ in june 2018. Marija is a concertmaster and soloist of „Artlink Virtuosi“ chamber orchestra.
Uki Ovaskainen was born in Espoo in Finland in 1975. He studied at the famous Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and at the Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen, graduating from the latter with distinction. He completed postgraduate studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hanover. He is active as a soloist and chamber musician and has performed concerts throughout Scandinavia and in Germany, Austria, Israel, Spain, Russia, Serbia and Croatia. He has won a number of international prizes. Since 2001 he has worked as a répétiteur for strings at the Belgrade Faculty of Music.
