Vera Stanojevic

Vera Stanojevic -- composer Vera Stanojevic was born in the former Yugoslavia, where she studied piano, theory and composition at the Mokranjac School of Music in Belgrade. Here is where her compositional talent was first recognized, and at the age of eighteen Ms. Stanojevic received the most prestigious award of the city of Belgrade, the October Prize for her early works. Ms. Stanojevic’s adventuresome- and ever-inquisitive spirit took her to Moscow, (Russia), were she received her graduate and post-graduate degrees in Music Composition from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory, and later to the U.S., where she earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from The Ohio State University. Vera Stanojevic has won numerous awards for her compositions, including the Individual Excellence Award of the State of Ohio Arts Council, the American Composers Forum Composers' Commissioning Project Grant, the Dale Warland Choral Competition prize, as well as the 1997 Vienna Modern Masters Millennium Commissioning Competition prize. She has served as professor of theory and composition at Kenyon College, at Ball State University in Indiana and has been guest professor at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. Germany. She currently teaches at the Capital University Conservatory of Music in Columbus, Ohio. Representative performances of her works include the premiere of Chamber Music (Essen, Germany); Notturno, for orchestra (Czech Republic); Dance: to the End of the Circle and Beyond...Return?, (Columbus ProMusica Chamber Orchestra); Voyages, for Piano and fixed media (numerous concerts and festivals, including the Florida International Electronic Music Festival, Musica Femina/Munich, the International Piano Festival in Glasgow and PARMA Music Festival in New Hampshire); In Memoriam for Piano and Percussion (Glasgow), Tree of Glory (London) and The Droplets Of Dew for four pianos and fixed media (Glasgow). Ms. Stanojevic’s works have been recorded and broadcast on European and American radio and television. --Notes from Ms. Stanojevic's Facebook page