The third in a row double bass festival “Bassiona” will be held from 16^th to 19^th November in the premises of our Faculty. Our students and professors will present themselves at concerts in Christian Adventist Church and museum in Prokuplje. The guests of the festival are double bass players from Montenegro, the double bass quartet “Basonegro”.

The organizer is the Faculty of Arts in Niš.

The I International Competition of Solo Singers “BELCANTO” was held in Niš from 25- 27.10.2024.

The competition ended with a final concert of the winners of all categories and the prizes awarding.

The LAUREATE of I International Competition of Solo Singers “BELCANTO” is a young soprano, twenty-eight-year-old Andrea Paić, a student of the Academy of Culture and Arts in Osijek and the Academy of Music in Zagreb (Croatia). As Laureate, young Andrea received a beautiful mosaic, the work of student Mila Knežević, in the class of prof. Maja Djurović, Assist. prof. at the Faculty of Arts Fine Arts Department and a whole night concert/recital in Niš organized by the NKC (Niš Cultural Center).

* The competition was organized by the Faculty of Arts of the University of Niš

* More than 60 singers in 12 categories, aged from 13 to 32, applied for the competition.

* Competitors came from Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Croatia and Slovenia.

* The performances of young singers were evaluated by an international Jury composed of emminent vocal pedagogues:

– Vesna Ginovska Ilkova, MA, full prof, Faculty of Music in Skopje and champion of the National Opera and Ballet – Skopje, North Macedonia;

– Voleta Pančetović Radaković, PhD prof, Faculty of Music in Belgrade, Serbia;

– PhD Berislav Jerković, full prof, Academy of Art and Culture Osijek, Croatia.

– Maja Djokić, Music School “Dr. Vojislav Vučković” Belgrade, Serbia;

– MA Aleksandra Vojvodić Jovović, Music School “Petar II Petrović Njegoš” Bar and Art School of Primary and Secondary Education for Talents “Andre Navarra” Podgorica, Montenegro;

– Nada Nikolić, Niš Music School;

– Katarina Simonović Ivanković, MA, full prof, Faculty of Arts, University of Niš, President of the Jury and Competition artistic director;

Secretaries of the competition:

– Dragana Mitić, Music School “Stanislav Binički” Leskovac

– Saša Arsenkov, MA, Assoc. prof, Faculty of Arts in Niš.

* In addition to diplomas, the first-placed participants in all categories received graphics by artist Slobodan Radojković, full prof, Faculty of Arts Fine Arts Department;

I A category: Natalija Ristić                                 I B category: Petra Naumovski

II A category: Anja Petković                                II A category: Blaž Anton Kolbezen

III B category: Katarina Shishkin                         III C category: Andjela Jovanović

IV C category: Sofija Lazić                                  VI C category: Andrea Paić

* SPECIAL AWARD for the most promising female voice of “BELCANTO” competition: Andjela Jovanović, student of the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad. The prize is a mosaic of student Aleksandra Milutinović, in the class of prof. Maja Djurović, Assist. prof, Faculty of Fine Arts Department.

* SPECIAL AWARD for the most promising male voice of “BELCANTO” competition: Luka Marković, student of the Faculty of Arts in Niš. He is the winner of St. Petka icon, which was a gift from Jandranka Mišić Pejović, full prof, Faculty of Arts.

* SPECIAL AWARD for the youngest participant of “BELCANTO” competition: Mihaela Jovović – Bar (Montenegro)

* SPECIAL AWARD for the best performed work by a domestic author of “BELCANTO” competition: Ana Milošević – Belgrade (Serbia)

* The organization of the competition was helped by:

City of Nis, City Municipality of Medijana, NKC, NSO, Tourist Organization of Niš – Visit Niš, sponsors (MTS Nissal, Standard furniture Serbia), flowershop Lilia, Constantinus festival, Copy Manhattan, restaurants: “KOMUNA”, “Ola Kala”, “Dialogue cafe”.

CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE ON THE PERFORMANCE AND WON AWARDS, CONGRATULATIONS TO THEIR PROFESSORS AND ASSOCIATES!

WE HOPE TO SEE YOU NEXT YEAR 31.10. -1.- 2.11.2025.

WELCOME TO NIŠ!

The Faculty of Arts Library is getting richer every day with publications that open up new artistic horizons for students. Thus, the author’s edition of Smiljka Isaković and Ivica Petković’s Relentless Bass: Basics of Continuum Realization for Instruments with keyboards, published by Orion Art Books from Belgrade (2024), by the effort of the authors themselves, and to the great satisfaction of users, became part of the collection of the Faculty of Arts Library. We owe a great debt of gratitude to the authors of this edition, with an invitation to users to learn about the realization of continuos for instruments with dirks, along with new aspects of music theory and the attached scores.

5.11.2024. year, Students Melanija Stanković (guitar) and Aleksandar Krstić (guitar), as a chamber duo “Melanija & Aleksandar” in the class pof Dragana Djordjević, MA, held an all-night concert at “Stevan Mokranjac” Music School in Zaječar. A trio consisting of Anreas Ćurić (violin), Kristina Mančić (flute) and Melanija Stanković (guitar) performed as guests at the concert.

Visual artist from Italy Claudia Canavesi will visit the Faculty of Arts in Niš and will present her creative opus and current artistic interests in the sphere of drawing, graphics and combined techniques to students from the Department of Fine Arts in the period from 30^th October to 1^st November 2024.

Claudia Canavesi (1976) completed her studies in sculpture at the Brera Academy in Milan. From 2009 to 2016, she collaborated on the Representative Laboratory project at the Faculty of Architectural Sciences of the Polytechnic Faculty in Milan. Since 1997, she has participated in domestic and foreign symposia, workshops and residencies of contemporary art. 

The gala concert of the awarded participants of “Belcanto” competition will be held on Sunday, 27^th October at 7 pm, Concert- Exhibition Hall of the Faculty of Arts in Niš, Knjaževačka 2a.

We invite you to the opening of the exhibition of works by the third year students of undergraduate academic studies from the Faculty of Arts in Niš Department of Applied Arts, entitled “Motivational quotes #2”, on Sunday, 27^th October 2024 at 7 pm, in the Faculty of Arts in Niš Concert- Exhibition Space.

The exhibition will be organized in honor of the First International Competition of Solo Singers BELCANTO, organized by the Faculty of Arts of the University of Niš, as a contribution of the Department of Applied Arts to this international project.

Author of the exhibition: PhD Miljana Radenković, Assist. prof. of the Faculty of Arts in Niš

The Faculty of Arts in Niš has launched an initiative for cooperation with the countries of the Western Balkans, which promotes the achievements of teachers, students and prominent artists. We announce the first exhibition within the cooperation of the Faculty of Arts in Niš, the University of Niš, the Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje, the University of “St. Cyril and Methodius”, Faculty of Design and Media, American University of Europe, FON from Skopje and professional art scenes of both countries.

The exhibition “Bridges of Niš – Skopje” will present the work of three authors from North Macedonia – Assoc. prof. PhD Valentina Stevanovska, Assoc. prof. Miloš Milosavljević, MA, and Angelo Korunovski, MA.

The exhibition will be opened in the Gallery of the University of Niš, “Nikola Tesla” University Library in Niš, on 28^th October 2024 at 6 pm and will last until 7^th November 2024.

In the premises of the University of Niš Rectorate, on 18^th and 19^th October, XI in a row national scientific forum with international participation, Balkan Art Forum 2024, was held with the theme Empathy Phenomenon in Art and Culture, organized by the Faculty of Arts, University of Niš and SASA Branch in Niš.

At the forum opening, the attendees were addressed by prof. PhD Dragan Denić, representative of the University of Niš, prof. PhD Dragan Žunić, in front of Niš branch of SASA and prof. PhD Milena Injac, dean of the Faculty of Arts in Niš. The ceremony was traditionally completed by the students of the Faculty of Arts: Nemanja Čamagić, Andreas Ćurić, Kristina Mančić and Melanija Stanković. With their distinctly cultivated musicianship, these young people presented in the best way the artistic values ​​that we, as a civilized and educated society, are obliged to nurture.

Three plenary lectures followed, in which the phenomenon of empathy was approached from three different thematic perspectives. First, dr Rozalina Popova-Koskarova from the Faculty of Pedagogy “St. Kliment of Ochrid” in Skopje spoke about the historical foundations and contemporary tendencies of aesthetic education. Then, Assist. prof. Radmila N. Lizdek from the Academy of Fine Arts in Trebinje (University of East Sarajevo) presented her work “Empathy in conditions of diversity: spatial installation Life“, and after that dr Gordana Grujić from the Academy of Arts of the University of Banja Luka presented her meticulous analytical study of Shenberg’s dodecaphonic music syntax and his controversial empathetic relationship to tradition.

On the first day, 18^th October, within the program of the scientific part of the forum, six participants presented their topics through oral presentations and video presentations. The session was chaired by Neda Nikolić, assistant at the Faculty of Arts. The audience, among whom there was a significant number of students, had the opportunity to hear what researchers of different origins from several university centers had to say on the subject of empathy in art and culture.

On the same day from 6 pm, Niš academic and wider audience had the special pleasure of attending the presentation of the creativity opus of academician Svetislav Božić, composer, and Mitar Simikić, professional associate from the Department of Photography, Department of Fine and Applied Arts, Academy of Arts, University of Novi Sad.

The following day, on 19^th October, in a session led by Ivana Milošević, also an assistant at the Faculty of Arts, seven papers signed by twelve researchers were presented. The topics once again covered a wide range of relevant problems, from teaching-educational to artistic to analytical-interpretive. In the lively and meaningful discussion that followed the last presentation, the importance of the phenomenon of empathy in the mutual understanding of people and the reception of works of art was emphasized. This created the impression that this year’s gathering of academics was to a large extent purposeful, despite all the challenges that the current social moment poses to art, but also to humanity as a whole. The forum ended in an optimistic atmosphere and the belief that the next editions of Balkan Art Forum will be even better.

Photos

***Students who photographed the event: Marija Tatić, Jana Janković, Staša Jevremović and Dimitrije Kitić.

Official photographer of the SASA Branch in Niš: Miroslav Lavrenčić