Jugokoncert

About us
Jugokoncert, the Belgrade concert agency and institution specialized for performing arts, was founded in 1946. It has become City of Belgrade cultural institution in 1976. For decades Jugokoncert has had an important role creating musical life not only in Belgrade but in former Yugoslavia as well. Jugokoncert was the founder, co-founder and executive producer of numerous distinguished festivals and special projects in the country and in Belgrade. Although special attention has always been devoted to the promotion of local artists and their creativity in the country and abroad, the agency has established its reputation mostly presenting the most attractive international programmes in the country. Thanks to Jugokoncert, only over the last several years, Belgrade has hosted some of the most prominent artists in the world:
Munich Prhilharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta
Filarmonica della Scala, Milano, Daniele Gatti
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Mario Venzago, Hakan Hårdenberger
Orchestre de Paris, Yutaka Sado
Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, John Nelson, Boris Berezovsky
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hugh Wolff
Orchestra RAI Torino, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos
Virtuosi Italiani, Mischa Maiski
Gidon Kremer & Kremerata Baltica
Sinfonia Cracovia & Krzysztof Penderecki
Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Orchestra, Joshua Bell,
Janine Jansen
Basel kammerorchester, David Stern, Sarah Chang
Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra, Gaetano Delogu
Moscow Soloists, Yuri Bashmet
Royal London Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Alan Gilbert, Martin Fröst
Budapest Festival Orchestra, Ivan Fischer
Prague Symphony Orchestra, Jiří Kout, Gautier Capuçon
Beijing Symphony Orchestra Tan Lihua, Li Biao
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Stéphane Denève, Hilary Hahn
Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam, Daniel Harding
London Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gegriev
Dresden Philharmonic, John Axelrod, Viviane Hagner & Danjulo Ishizaka
Camerata Salzburg, Olli Mustonen
Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini
Le poème harmonique
Les Percussions de Strasbourg
L’Ensemble Baroque de Limoges
Glinka Choir, Vladislav Chernushenko
Peking Opera
Kronos Quartet
Roma Sinfonietta & Enio Morikone
Béjart ballet, Losanne
Eifman Ballet, St. Petersburg
Victora Ullate Ballet, Madrid
Georges Momboye Ballet, Paris

The Belgrade audience has heard as well: Irena Grafenauer, Emmanuel Pahud, Martha Argerich, Nelson Freire, Melvin Tan, Stephen Kovacevich, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Elsabeth Leonskaja, Maksim Vengerov, Julian Rachlin, Renaud Capuçon, Tatiana Vasilieva, Steven Isserlis, David Geringas, Alexander Rudin, Kiri Te Kanawa, Barbara Hendricks, Marjana Lipovšek…  
Since the beginning in 1969 Jugokoncert has been the executive producer of the Belgrade Music Festival (BEMUS), the oldest and the most prominent music festival in the country enjoying the position of a cultural event of special importance for the City of Belgrade. The Festival is a member of the European Festivals Association (EFA) since 2002.
Jugokoncert works together with numerous institutions, local and foreign partner organizations and agencies and acts as their reliable partner in production of different projects, programmes and events, such as – Belgrade Summer Festival (BELEF), Contemporary Theatre Festival (BITEF), International Review of Composers, Guitar Art Festival, International Harp Festival...Jugokoncert has created projects on its own, such as: Belgrade International Cello Fest, Spring Piano Feast, complex original stage performances, commission of new pieces, marking important anniversaries…The Agency is renown in the public as the promoter of projects of international and bilateral cooperation as well.
Besides concerts in Serbia and differents projects abroad, Jugokoncert presents some 100 music programmes to the Belgrade audience in a single year. These programmes are conceived on the choice of creators and performers of the highest quality and express an intensive interest in modern and attractive presentation of music of different genres animating the audience of different age and interests.
Apart from the promotion of the established performers, Jugokoncert opens its venues to young musicians who are ready to launch their professional careers. Equal attention is dedicated to exclusive stage productions (operas, ballets and multimedia projects) which often reach for alternative artistic achievements especially interesting to younger public. Doing so, Jugokoncert successfully communicates with a wide audience of different profiles.
Jugokoncert’s staff today is composed of 15 highly professional people who investigate on daily basis contemporary, modern and urban forms of music presentation and encourage the creativity and the quality of local musical life.

Boško Radojković, acting director
Biljana Zdravković, assistant manager
Vesna Kabiljo, Editor-in-Chief
Jelena Janković, Program Editor - Producer
Milica Kadić, Program Editor - Producer
Mirjana Panic, Chief Organizer - Executive Producer
Maja Somborac, International Co-operation Manager
Jelena Lakicević, Stage Program Manager, PR
Simona Dašić-Raca, Art Manager
Petar Alimpijević, Organizer
Željka Lakićević, International Project Organizer
Vesna Nikolić, Liquidator
Dejan Bojović, Technical Support Associate
Marijana Stanković, Business Secretary

Permanently Engaged Lawyer: Dragana Popović

Jugokoncert Board:
Dejan Sinadinović, Pianist, Professor at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade (Chairman)
Milica Kadić, Program Editor (Jugokoncert)
Zlatko Karaferić, M.A. Master of Music
Mirjana Panić, Chief Organizer - Executive Producer (Jugokoncert)
Isidora Žebeljan, composer, Professor at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade

Supervisory Board:
Dragančo Ristevski, Professor of Trumpet (Chairman)
Vladimir Cvijić, Pianist, Docent at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade
Željka Lakićević, International Project Organizer (Jugokoncert)

Artistic Ditector of the BEMUS Festival:
Zoran Erić, Composer
Bemus Board:
Ivana Avžner, City of Belgrade Secretary for Culture (Chairwoman)
Jadranka Jovanović, Prima Donna of the Belgrade Opera
Goran Pitić, Chairman of the Société Générale Board
Maja Rajković, Pianist, Docent at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade
Biljana Zdravković, assistant manager

Jugokoncert Young Talent Commission:
Vesna Kabiljo, Editor-in-Chief in Jugokoncert (President)
Jasna Maksimović, Violinist, Vice Dean at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade Boško Radojković, Guitarist, Director of the Guitar Art Festival
Dejan Stošić, Pianist, Docent at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade
Mirjana Tomić, Musicologist, Director of the International Jeunesses Musicales Competition - Belgrade