Snežana Stevanović

Snežana Stevanović was born on December 9, 1978. year, in Valjevo. She received her primary musical education at the secondary school “Živorad Grbić” in Valjevo, and continued her education at the secondary school “Dr. Vojislav Vučković”, and then at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, where she obtained her master’s degree in the class of professor Dejan Mihailović, in December 2004.
During her studies, she held dozens of concerts in the most prestigious concert venues in Belgrade and Novi Sad.
She is the recipient of a scholarship from the Kingdom of Norway and an award from the University of Novi Sad, which is awarded to the most successful students of the generation.
During her studies, she built professional experience in the Belgrade Violin Ensemble and the Vojvodina Philharmonic. She improved her skills at seminars of renowned world pedagogues.
Since 2002, Snežana Stevanović has been employed as a violin teacher at the “Živorad Grbić” Junior High School. Already at the very beginning of her career, she showed a strong initiative for the development of her department and the creation of a different environment for the development of young string players. Since 2023, she has been the artistic director of the first string ensemble in the history of the school, which developed over the years and gave birth to the OMŠ String Orchestra and the “Fenix” String Orchestra.
Ms. Snežana Stevanović and her students have won over 80 awards at competitions in the country and abroad, most of which are first prize and laureates. In 2016, in cooperation with Professor Dejan Mihailović, she created the concept of the international festival “Golden Steps” organized by the “Živorad Grbić” Primary School, of which she is also the director. For ten years, she performed the function of the head of the string department, and during that period she placed a great emphasis on massing and improving the quality of the high school. Ten violinists graduated from her class, seven of whom continued their education at Music Academies. In 2016, Snežana Stevanović, M.Sc., pays special attention in her artistic and pedagogical work to improving the quality and popularization of the “Fenix” string ensemble.
Due to its very structure (it is made up of the most successful string players from the “Živorad Grbić” Junior High School, most of them winners of the most important awards and recognitions), the ensemble is characterized by a pronounced level of artistic creativity. With “Feniks”, Snežana Stevanović performs numerous performances in cities in Serbia (Belgrade, Užice, Šabac, Novi Sad) and Slovenia (Velenje), where the ensemble is met with great reception, the most positive reviews and true delight at the quality of the string players’ from Valjevo, work. The most significant professional achievements of the “Phoenix” orchestra so far are certainly the tours in Germany (Munich, Pfaffenhofen), realized in 2016 and 2018. In April 2016, with the performance of the “Phoenix” orchestra at the official reception of the Dutch embassy on the occasion of the national holiday “King’s Day “, cooperation with the Dutch ambassador is realized, which results in the holding of the 1st international string festival “Golden Stairs”, organized by the “Živorad Grbić” Junior High School, and under the general patronage of the Dutch Embassy. An important starting point for the quality of the pedagogical work of Snežana Stevanović, M.Sc., are also awards for professional engagements , which she receives from “Živorad Grbić” Secondary School: 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2021. In addition to teaching, Snežana Stevanović is actively engaged in music as a concert violinist who has been successfully building her career as a performer for 12 years. First as a member of the string quartet “MISS” and since 2016 through a very notable concert performance in the trio “MiSS”, loved by both critics and audiences. In addition to Snežana, the trio “MiSS” also consists of her twin sister Suzana Radovanović Perić, MSc, and pianist, piano teacher Milica Prodanović.