Ivana Babović and Svetlana Stojanović, piano students in the class of Stevan Spalević, DA, Assistant professor achieved success at VIII International Piano Competition in Smederevo. Congratulations!

Miloš Vuković, a guitar senior master student in the class of Vesna Petković, MA, full prof. is the winner in the oldest V category at the online guitar competition “Dr Jovan Jovičić” within XV Vojvodina Guitar Fest 2021, which was held from 21^st to 24^th May 2021 in Novi Sad. With this award, Miloš became a EuroStrings artist for 2022. EuroStrings – European Guitar Festival Collaborative is the first European classical guitar platform and brings together 20 European classical guitar festivals. The platform creates an international opportunities hub for winners of EuroStrings festival competitions, such as: concert tours, educational and training programs that encourage the professional development of guitarists, helping them to develop successful international careers. He also won a valuable cash prize, as well as the Savarez set.

The promotion of the monograph on Konstantin Babić and Paja Jovanović, published by the Faculty of Arts, University of Niš, will be held on Friday, 28^th May 2021, at 6 pm in the crypt of the Church of St. Marc in Belgrade. An exhibition dedicated to these two giants of our art scene will be set up in this concert exhibition space, and a short film dedicated to prof. Konstantin Babić will be broadcast. The promotion will be opened by the granddaughter of prof. Kosta Babić, Bojana Babić, who will perform the composition “Preludi giocosi” on the piano. Branka Ivković Petronić, MA, who will be the moderator of the promotion. Besides her, Tatjana Brzulovuć Stanisavljević, PhD, the reviewer, a librarian-advisor of the University Library in Belgrade, as well as Vesna Gagić, a librarian of the Faculty of Arts in Niš, the author of this edition, will speak. In the continuation of the program, the trio Anima will present themselves, consisting of Aleksandra Ristić, MA, full professor – soprano, spec. Ana Veličković-Igić, full professor – flute and spec. Ingrid Janković, Assistant professor – piano, who has the exclusive rights to perform the work of composer Konstantin Babić. The support for the bilingual edition (in Serbian and English) of the project in 2020 was provided by the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia.

Chamber ensemble, the trio “Tres Almas” consisting of Nena Djurić – soprano, Veljko Mihajlović – clarinet and Boris Pećanac – piano in the class of spec. Ingrid Janković, Assistant professor won the I-1 award in IV category in chamber music at VIII International Piano Competition in Smederevo. Congratulations!

Branislav Miladinović, piano student in the class of prof. Jovanka Arandjelović, MA, won the first prize in the seventh category at VII Piano Festival in Sremska Mitrovica. Congratulations!

As part of the Popular Science and Education Program, in the Small Hall of Niš Cultural Centre on Wednesday, 19^th May 2021, at 6 pm, the publications of the Faculty of Arts within the program “Work of the faculties of the University of Niš during Covid 19” were presented. Associate professors Danijela Stojanović, PhD and Danijela Zdravić Mihailović, PhD as well as Vesna Gagić spoke about the publications of the Faculty of Arts. The Faculty of Arts presented two monographs, Aesthetic Experience in Music Teaching, authored by Danijela Zdravković Mihailović, and Factors of Achievement in Music Education, by Danijela Stojanović. Printed, electronic and audio editions of the Faculty were also presented. Andjela Danković, MA, full professor spoke about the latest discographic edition.

Boris Pećanac, a piano student in the class of doc. dr um. Stevan Spalević, DA, Assistant professor won the first prize (95 points) in VI category at the 7^th Piano Festival in Sremska Mitrovica. Congratulations!

The director of Niš Cultural Center, Srdjan Savić, and Tatjana Milenković, the editor of the science popular program of Niš Cultural Center, presented the Faculty of Arts with a selection of representative editions of Niš Cultural Center on the occasion of “Slavic Literacy Day” in order to preserve language culture and our national and cultural identity based on language and letter.

Guitar quartet “4G’s” consisting of Stefan Dejanović, Miloš Vuković, Pavle Žarkić and Stefan Milenković, chamber music students in the class full prof. Bratislav Zlatković, held an extremely successful concert, on 13^th May 2021, at the chamber music festival “Konstantin Iliev” in the city of Dobrich, Bulgaria under the auspices of the Municipality of Dobrich. The program includes works by 20th century composers originally written for the guitar quartet (Asad, Bellinati, Matsuoka, Zlatković), but also arrangements prepared for this ensemble. One week before this performance, the quartet was awarded the I1 prize in the oldest category at International Internet Competition “Constantine the Great”, and as the only band with the maximum number of points, it was declared the Competition Laureate in this discipline.

Kristijan Vučković, a third-year piano student in the class of Andrija Mamutović, DA, Assistant professor won the I1 award (100 points) in the oldest category at International Competition of Young Pianists in Šabac. He was also declared by the jury- the Laureate of the older categories. Congratulations!