Dragutin Mladenović

Dragutin Mladenović, prof. violins
Born in Belgrade. He began his musical education with professor Milan Dimitrijević and finished the lower music school in Mokranjac in the class of professor Vladimir Bobić in Belgrade.
From 1992 to 1998, he studied at the “Central Secondary Special Music School, under the patronage of the Tchaikovsky State Conservatory in Moscow” in the class of Professor Galina Stepanovna Turchaninova.
In 1998, he enrolled in studies at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Antwerp (Belgium), where he received his master’s degree in 2006. In 2007, Dragutin Mladenović also received his master’s degree from the Department of Contemporary Music, under professor Mihail Bezverghny, at the Royal University of Music in Ghent (Belgium). In 2010, he also completed specialist studies at the Department of Chamber Music at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, in the class of Professor Uroš Pešić.
Dragutin Mladenović is the winner of the first prizes at the Republic and Federal competitions as well as the first prize at the “Petar Konjović” International Competition in Belgrade. He was the winner of the “100 best postgraduates” scholarship, which is awarded by the Foundation for Young Talents of the Republic of Serbia.
Since 2007, he has been employed as a violin teacher at the School for Musical Talents in Ćuprija. For 17 years of working in this prestigious institution, he and his students won a large number of awards at national competitions, festivals, as well as awards at renowned international competitions J. Kocijan (Czech Republic), A. Postaćini (Italy), Talents for Europe (Slovakia), Artur Gremio (Belgium), Ohridski Biseri (North Macedonia), Jeno Hubai (Hungary), Jozef Micka (Czech Republic). His students represent the School with their performances in all major concert halls in Serbia as well as at the School’s tours abroad.
Since 2010 he is the president of MUZIKUS, the Association for the spread and promotion of musical culture in Serbia, and the artistic director of the ARLEMM festival.
He won the “Best Professor” award from the international competitions Talents for Europe (Slovakia), Jozef Micka (Czech Republic), Jeno Hubai (Hungary), as well as the award for the most promising young pedagogue in 2017 at the international string competition in Sremska Mitrovica.