Bratislav Zlatković (1961) was born in Niš, where he graduated from a lower music school for guitar and a secondary music school (theoretical department and flute department). He graduated in flute from the Academy of Music in Sarajevo. During his studies, he won prizes at competitions and had several performances as a soloist and member of chamber ensembles. After completing his studies, he was engaged in popular music and recorded five albums with the group Galija and one solo album, all published by the national recording  PGP-RTS, on which he presents himself as a composer, arranger, lyricist and performer. He is the composer and arranger of hits: Did you sleep, On your lips, We fly in the sky, Kopaonik, Freedom, Skadarska, “A be da be” and others. As an author and performer – multi-instrumentalist, he performed in concert venues (halls, stadiums) throughout the former Yugoslavia and was a guest of the largest radio and television stations. Since 1996, he has been dealing with applied music. He composes, arranges and produces music for theater, animated, documentary and feature films, for which he has been awarded several times at national and international festivals. He wrote the oratorio On the crossroads for narrator, soloists, choir and symphony orchestra, premiered at the Opening Ceremony of 20^th International Choral Festival in Niš. He published fifteen original compositions for standard and non-standard chamber ensembles under the name Vergul – Art (scores, parts and audio CD). Bratislav Zlatković Author’s Evening concert at NIMUS, promoted this edition, in which over forty musicians from the city’s cultural institutions (Symphony Orchestra, Army Orchestra, Music School, Faculty of Arts) participated, as well as the Concertante Chamber Orchestra with conductor DMA Milena Injac. He made a permanent recording for Radio Belgrade of his vocal-instrumental piece This is my country in the RTS studio of the Kolarc Endowment hall with soloists and the Radio Television of Serbia Symphony Orchestra and Choir and published a CD of this piece published by the Faculty of Arts of the University of Niš and the Branch of the Serbian Academy of the sciences and arts in Niš. His compositions and arrangements written for various chamber ensembles were performed at competitions and concerts in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Spain, Bulgaria, Italy… He was the artistic director of the festivals: Nisomnia, May Song, the selector of the festival Niš Automn, and he is one of the founders and artistic director of the international Naissus Guitar Festival from 2010 to the present day. In 2005, together with prof. MA Vesna Petković, he founded the duo Crescendo (flute/guitar, guitar/guitar). They performed at concerts in the halls of the Niš Symphony Orchestra, the Madlenianum hall in Zemun, concert halls in Novi Sad, Leskovac, Negotin, Požarevac, Vranje, Novi Pazar and other cities in Serbia, the concert hall – Banski dvor in Banja Luka (Republic of Srpska). The duo had successful concerts at international festivals in Greece, Bulgaria, Italy, Bosnia and Herzegovina and as soloists with the Academic Chamber Orchestra in Serbia, as well as at international festivals in the cities of Murcia, Cartagena, Cieza, Torre Pacheco (Spain) and the cities of Pernik and Sofia (Bulgaria). Duo Crescendo performs original music for flute and guitar, as well as arrangements of classical music arranged for this ensemble. In 2019, he held several concerts in the country and abroad with the chamber ensemble trio de Janeiro. He participated as a member of the jury at domestic and international competitions, and his students won over forty first-prizes at festivals and competitions. They also held a significant number of very successful concerts in the country and abroad. Since 1993, he has been teaching at the High Music School (Flute), from 1994 to 2004 he taught at the Higher Music School (guitar, another instrument); in 2004 he became an assistant professor, then in 2009 an associate professor, and since 2019 he has been working as a full professor at Chamber Music Department, Faculty of Arts, University of Niš.