MA Andjela Danković and students Andjelija Djak in her class, as well as Kristina Mančić, Jovana Vojinović, Jovana Blagojević and Mina Mihajlović in the class of Prof. DMA Jelena Jakovljević, performed and with great success represented the Faculty of Arts and the University of Niš at III international festival Flute & me, which brings together professors and students of music academies from the republics of the former Yugoslavia. They presented themselves with works by Serbian composers, and at the festival closing, they played together with all other participants, performing a specially written work for this occasion, the composition Balkan Road Trip – by the Slavic composer Leon First. There were 95 performers, flautists, students and professors on the podium.

Bratislav Djordjević, a fourth-year piano student in the class of DMA Stevan Spalević, Assoc. Prof. won I prize (98.2 points) in VII category at IX International Sirmium Music Fest Competition, which was held from 22^nd to 27^th April 2025 in Sremska Mitrovica.

Vasilije Glavašević, a second-year piano student of basic academic studies in the class of DMA Stevan Spalević, associate professor, won I prize (96.6 points) in VI category at IX International Sirmium Music Fest Competition, which was held from 22^nd to 27^th April 2025 in Sremska Mitrovica.

Bratislav Djordjević, a 4th-year piano student of basic academic studies in the class of DMA Stevan Spalević, associate professor, held a solo concert on 7.4.2025. at the Italian Institute of Culture in Belgrade. The program included works by Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven.

The works of Ana Naumović and Vera Nikolić, students of master studies and PhD Miljana Radenković, Assist. Prof. at the Department of Applied Arts at the Faculty of Arts in Niš, have been selected for the FLUID – Regional Design Awards for Young Designers 2025 competition for exhibition at international exhibitions in Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The second public call on the topic Promise me the future!, was announced for the Poster category, by the FLUID Design Forum and the NVU FLUX Cetinje. Young (18 to 35 years old) graphic designers, illustrators, design and architecture students, visual artists, photographers and architects from the region (Montenegro, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Macedonia, Albania) were eligible to participate. The jury, consisting of: Mirko Ilić (USA), Borut Wild (RS), Dejan Kršić (CRO), Saša Pešikan (BIH), Nikola Bada Radonjić (MNE), Sandro Drinovac (BIH) and Ana Matić (MNE), selected 34 posters (28 authors) from 182 submitted works, which, together with the selected posters from the first round, will be displayed at the FLUID Design Forum (Cetinje, Montenegro, April 2025) and the POP-UP Design Festival (Sarajevo, BIH, May 2025). This exhibition of international importance is part of the project segment Thematic Exhibitions and is being implemented as part of the BLENDING project, which is supported by UNESCO within the framework of the Culture and Creativity for the Western Balkans (CC4WBs) project, funded by the European Union with the aim of stimulating dialogue in the Western Balkans through the improvement of the cultural and creative sectors for increased socio-economic impact. The student works were realized in the Poster course, under the mentorship of PhD Slavica Dragosavac, full prof, and PhD Jovana Nikolić, Assistant with a doctorate.

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Andjela Bučić and Mila Stojanović, third-year students and Luka Mitrović, fourth-year student from the Department of Applied Arts, were selected in a public competition for students of art faculties in Serbia to visually present Serbian folk sayings through personal artistic expression as part of the project Odvajkada.

After the exhibition Odvajkada, which was realized in December 2024, the digital monograph will be permanently available on the official website of the brand Bakina Tajna and the Ethnographic Museum.

(source: https://etnografskimuzej.rs/odvajkada/)

At the international solo singing competition in Russia “International Gorgeos Voices Festival” Russia ANO «Most Sodruzhestva», Vocal Competition Mezhdunarodne golosa, which was held from 20.12.2024. to 30.1.2025, students from the Department of Solo Singing of the Faculty of Arts, University of Niš participated and won the following prizes:

Iva Mladenović, soprano, I category, I prize – 94 points and

Luka Marković, tenor, II category, I prize – 96 points.

The students are in the class of MA prof. Katarina Simonović Ivanković

Piano collaboration: Staša Stamenković.

http://most-sodrujestva.ru/

Sofija Stajić, a master horn-student in the class of prof. MA Milan Stajić, won the laureate prize at the online competition for young artists Global Young Musicians Competition-Gdansk, Poland in H category as the only registered competitor from Serbia.

14-15.12.2024. XI International Solo Singer Competition “Artisti della Voce” was held in the Becklyev^,s Hall of the Music School“Isidor Bajić”, organized by the FloriArt New Music Vision association in Novi Sad.

Students from the Faculty of Arts, University of Niš also participated in the XI International Solo Singer Competition:

Iva Mladenović, soprano, I year student of OAS, III category – I prize (95 points) and

Luka Marković, tenor, IV year student of OAS, 4th category – I prize (93 points).

The students are in the class of Katarina Simonović Ivanković, MA, full professor of the Department of Solo Singing.

The piano accompaniment at the competition was by Staša Stamenković, MAS student in the class of Dragoslav Aćimović, MA, fullprofessor.