Nadežda Damnjanović

NADEŽDA DAMNJANOVIĆ, graduated from the secondary music school “Dr. Vojislav Vučković” (Belgrade) in the class of prof. Biljana Jakšić Nikolić. She enrolled in studies at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, as the first on the list, with the maximum number of points, in the class of prof. Dejan Mihailović. She continues her education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade, also in the class of prof. Dejan Mihailović, where she graduated with the highest grade.
During her studies, she won numerous awards at national and international competitions in the country and abroad. She was a scholarship holder of the fund for young talents “Madlena Janković”. She held numerous solo concerts in all concert halls in Belgrade and beyond. She performed as a member and soloist of several orchestras (“Masters of Strings”, “Ensemble of Violinists”, “Proklasika”, Art Ensemble of the Ministry of Defense “Stanislav Binički”, etc.).
In 2001, she founded the Cinderella quartet, where she plays the first violin and writes arrangements. The quartet played at numerous concerts, events, and artistic performances. In 2014, she cooperated with the London music television C MUSIC. With her original and unusual arrangement of Erik Satie’s piano composition, which is broadcast on C MUSIC, she attracted the attention of many musicians, critics, and radio stations throughout Europe, America, Asia, and Africa.
She gained long-term experience in several primary and secondary music schools throughout Serbia, as well as at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade, where she was engaged for several years as an assistant professor in the subjects “Violin” and “Reading from a List”.
She achieved exceptional results in her pedagogical work, for which she was awarded several times together with her students. Her students are winners of first prizes and laureate titles in numerous competitions.
In cooperation with Kolarac’s endowment, she founded the Music Atelier Cinderella, intended for children and adults (from 3 to 93 years old), where, using modern and innovative methods, she successfully implements the process of education, development, and affirmation of young talents, as well as the concept of lifelong musical education for adults, LLL-Lifelong learning. She organized numerous winter and summer musical creative-educational camps for young talents where she was creative director and violin teacher (Vrnjačka Banja, The Silver Lake, Arandjelovac, and Knić).
She is the director and creator of the MINI PAGANINI international competition for young violinists, which brings together a large number of young talents and eminent violin professors from Serbia and abroad in the Ilija M. Kolarac Foundation.