Under the conductorship of prof. DA Milena Injac, the jubilee concert of the Faculty of Arts Orchestra and Friends was held. This concert marked the beginning of cooperation with the Faculty of Music in Skopje, with the presence of the dean, composer, prof. Daria Andovska, MA. The students of FMA in Skopje made up the Orchestra brass section, supported by a student and assist. prof. Ivan Blagojević from the Faculty of Arts in Kosovska Mitrovica. The orchestra owes its thanks to its constant collaborators, Vladimir Vezenković, a multy-year solo oboist of NSO, as well as alumni Sofija Stajić and assist. prof. Milan Stajić, MA. Works by Fauré, Borodin, Shostakovich, Hinastera, Anderson and Marquez were performed. The orchestra played two „encores“, and the contribution from the concert went to humanitarian purposes for the treatment of an alumna, violinist Jana Mitić. The Orchestra would like to thank SASA Branch in Niš for cooperation in organizing the concert. The day before, the Orchestra held a concert in Aleksinac organized by the Cultural Center, when the concert was also humanitarian for Roman Šarenac, a boy  from Aleksinac.

The continuous cooperation of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad and the Faculty of Arts in Niš and course teachers is being celebrated again this year with the joint student exhibition “Graphics and Drawing”. The exhibition points to special approaches to graphics and drawing, to the students attitude towards the graphic medium, revealing their reflections and different ways of realizing graphics and drawings . A selection of works that presents the real state of current artistic student production is presented. It points to the enthusiasm of young creators, their dynamism, richness of ideas and the essential conditioning of graphics and drawings in the displayed works.

A master student of academic guitar studies Damir Blagojević in the class of prof. Miloš Janjić, MA, won I prize (93 points) in VII category at the competition within the “Naisus” guitar festival in Niš, held from 12^th -14^th April 2024.

Accordion Trio composed of: Marija Ratkov, Petar Bešović and Veljko Jović from Bratislav Zlatković class, full prof. are the laureates in Chamber Ensembles category at VIII Belgrade Accordion Festival.

At Belgrade Accordion Festival held on 7^th April in Belgrade, students in the class of prof. Nikola Peković won three I prizes in the category without age limit (student category).

I prize and laureate- Marija Ratkov, fourth-year student of UAS (97.66 points)

I prize- Nemanja Čamagić, third-year student of UAS (96.66 points)

I prize- Petar Bešović, fourth-year student of UAS (93.66 points)

Guitar duo consisting of Una Ganić and Bogdan Radaljević in the class of Bratislav Zlatković, full prof, won II prize in Chamber Ensembles category at XXVI International Classical Guitar Competition in the city of Kyustendil – Bulgaria.

11^th and 12^th April 2024, Faculty of Arts in Niš Concert-Exhibition Hall and Small Hall

Lecture by PhD Zoran Božanić

MUSICAL-RHETORICAL FIGURES AND SYMBOLISM OF NUMBERS IN THE PIECES OF JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH

11^th April 2024 at 4 pm, Faculty of Arts in Niš Small Hall, Kneginje Ljubice 10

BAROQUE CONCERT OF ACCORDION AND PIANO STUDENTS

11^th April at 7 pm, Faculty of Arts in Niš Concert-Exhibition Hall, Knjaževačka 2a.

Students in the classes of prof. MA Miljan Bjeletić, prof. Nikola Peković and prof. DA Stevan Spalević

Lecture by PhD Zoran Božanić

ON THE INTERPRETATION OF BACH’S MUSIC FOR KEYBOARD INSTRUMENTS

12^th April at 9 AM, Faculty of Arts in Niš Small Hall, Kneginje Ljubice 10

Elementary school “Dositej Obradović” Niš awards a commendation for successful cooperation and exceptional commitment of the Department of Fine and Applied Arts students in painting a mural in elementary school “Dositej Obradović”.

The string quartet “Perdendosi”, consisting of the Faculty of Arts in Niš student, Aleksa Spasić, violin, Tijana Filipović, violin, Andjela Dugonjić, viola and Nenad Ilić, double bass, in the class of Aleksandar Jakovljević, MA, full prof. won I prize at V International Competition “Olivera Djurdjević” in Belgrade. The competition was held under the auspices of the music school “Vladimir Djordjević” in Belgrade and the Flutists Association of Serbia “Miodrag Azanjac”.