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Aneta Ilić is one of the most outstanding vocal artists in Serbia and, together with Irina Arsikin and Aleksandra Ivanović, the most distinguished concert singer in the country. Born in Frankfurt-am-Main (Germany), she studied singing at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade with Prof. Biserka Cvejić and Prof. Irina Arsikin (postgraduate studies).
As a concert singer, she performs regularly in Serbia and abroad. She gave stand out performances in Italy, the Netherlands (Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam), Germany, France, Sweden, Poland, Greece, Romania, Slovenia and Croatia, as well as within the festivals BEMUS, NOMUS, BELEF, Contro canto (Rome), Music Biennale Zagreb and the International Review of Composers in Belgrade. She performs often with symphony and chamber orchestras, among which the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, the RTS Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble of Soloists of the Munich Philharmonic, Belgrade Strings, St George Strings and the Royal Strings of St George, and she has collaborated with the distinguished conductors such as Leopold Hager, David Porcelijn, Uroš Lajovic, Vladimir Kranjčević, Bojan Suđić and Darinka Matić-Marović. As a soloist with orchestra she has performed a number of vocal-instrumental works ranging from the baroque to the contemporary music (Vivaldi, Bach, Pergolesi, Haydn, Mozart, Gounod, Mahler, Fauré, Honegger, Stravinski, Poulenc, Britten, Radić, Žebeljan). She is a regular soloist of the Ensemble Renaissance. However, recitals with pianists Dejan Sinadinović, Vladimir Stojnić and Lidija Stanković form the essence of her concert activity. Her recital programs feature renowned works of baroque, romantic, impressionistic and 20th Century music.
Performances of Serbian music heritage represent another important aspect of Aneta Ilić’s artistic activity. Her collaboration with the composer Isidora Žebeljan started during their student years, and she has premiered several Žebeljan’s vocal works (among which the song cycle Rukoveti). Afterwards, Aneta Ilić’s interest in Serbian music has spread onto the vocal works of other composers such as Ljubica Marić, Srevan Hristić, Miloje Milojević, Dejan Despić, Dušan Radić and Vlastimir Trajković. Aneta Ilić is a founding member of the renowned chamber ensemble Donne di Belgrado, with which she also performs regularly in Serbia and abroad and with which she has premiered a number of pieces of Serbian composers dedicated to the trio.
Aneta Ilić’s operatic career is marked by acclaimed performances in opera productions in Sweeden (Ulriksdals slottsteatar Confidancen, Stockholm), Slovenia and Serbia (Opera of the National Theatre in Belgrade, Opera and Theatre Madlenianum, BEMUS Festival). Her operatic repertoire encompasses roles in the operas of baroque and pre-classic composers (Pergolesi, Gluck), in Mozart’s works, as well as in the 20th century operas (Orff, Nyman, Jevtić). She sang the role of the Nymph at the world premiere of Anja Đorđević’s opera Naricssus and Echo (BEMUS, 2002), and her other notable roles are Despina (Mozart, Cosi fan tutte, Opera and Theatre Madlenianum), Eurydice (Gluck, Orpheus and Eurydice, BEMUS Festival 2005), and Mrs. P (Michael Nyman, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, New Moment Ideas Campus Festival, Slovenia; BITEF Festival, 2001).
She has recorded for the Serbian Radio-Television and Radio Netherlands, and several of her recordings were published on CDs produced by PGP RTS. Aneta Ilić is an associate professor of singing at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade.