Dejan Bogdanović

Dejan Bogdanović is a Serbian-Italian classical violinist active in Europe since the 1980s.

Early life and education

Bogdanović studied violin at the Isidor Bajić School of Music in Novi Sad. He later continued his studies at the University of Novi Sad, where he trained with teachers associated with the Russian violin school, including Eugenia Cugaeva, Marina Jasvili, Ilya Grubert and Zinaida Gilels.

At the age of seventeen, he performed violin concertos by Niccolò Paganini and Felix Mendelssohn with the Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra.

Career

Bogdanović has appeared as a soloist with orchestras in Serbia and abroad, including performances in Prague, Vienna, Moscow and other European cities.

His repertoire includes major violin concertos by composers such as Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, Paganini and Wieniawski.

In 1988 he participated in the Festival Culturale di San Cirillo e San Matteo. He later undertook further specialization at the P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow under Viktor Tretiakov.