Jugokoncert

Among the most original names of Serbian music, Bojan Suđić is the chief conductor and artistic director of ensembles of Music Production of Serbian Radio and Television, as well as professor of conducting at the Music Academy in Belgrade.
He is equally successful as symphonic, choir and opera conductor.

“He is a natural talent with an extraordinary style and one of the most exquisite techniques I’ve ever seen” (Mats Lilleros, Huvudstadstbledat, Helsinki)

Bojan Suđić was born in Belgrade in 1965.
He has conducted his first concert at the age of 19, being still a student at the Music Academy in Belgrade. At the Yugoslav Competition of Music Artists in Zagreb in 1989, he won First Prize the category for conducting, which has never been granted since the foundation of the competition in 1948. In the same year, he was awarded a scholarship from the Lovro fon Matačić.
Since 1985, he was assistant to conductor, and since 1992 the permanent conductor of the Choir and Symphony Orchestra of Serbian Radio and Television. 
With these ensembles, he has interpreted a vast repertoire ranging from Palestrina and Monteverdi, to Stravinsky and Poulenc. Under his baton have been performed dozens of choir, symphonic and vocal-symphonic compositions of contemporary authors, as well as premiere modern performances and first recordings of important pieces from Serbian heritage.
Bojan Suđić has conducted his first concert with Belgrade Philharmonics in 1989. He has performed with this ensemble for many times ever since, including concerts with big stars, such as Nigel Kennedy or Maxim Vengerov. With the orchestra of Belgrade Philharmonics he made several recordings, among which stand out Symphony Dances by Sergey Rachmaninov.
As guest conductor at Opera and Ballet of the National Theater in Belgrade, Bojan Suđić has first appeared in 1993. In season 1999/2000 he was the chief conductor of this ensemble.
Since 1998, Bojan Suđić was engaged as a guest conductor and since 2001 as permanent conductor at the Royal Opera in Stockholm. In this house, he has conducted more than hundred opera and ballet performances.
Bojan Suđić has conducted in Russia, Germany, Greece, Belgium, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Bulgaria, Portugal, Brazil and China.
Successful cooperation with numerous foreign orchestras
As symphonic conductor, he has cooperated with various European conductors. His most distinguished engagements include Helsinki Philharmonics and Novosibirsk Philharmonics, Symphonic Orchestra of Odense and Metropolitan Orchestra of Lisbon. He has conducted ensembles of Zagreb, Macedonia and Rijeka Philharmonics, Zagreb Symphonic, Symphony Orchestra of Montenegro…
At the Finnish National Opera at Helsinki, he has conducted numerous performances in regular season, as well as on the Gala Concert dedicated to the new millennium. He has presented himself to the audiences of Athens Festival as a conductor of Bizet’s Carmen (guest performance of Belgrade Opera) and at the Wiesbaden Festival with the Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky and ensembles of the Royal Opera and Ballet from Stockholm. 
Bojan Suđić has especially proved himself as a reliable and creative interpreter of “big” symphony and vocal-instrumental compositions. In Jugokoncert’s production in past several years only, he has performed with ensembles and Serbian Radio and Television and Belgrade Philharmonics Skryabin’s Ecstasy Poem, suites from ballet Romeo and Juliet by Prokofiev, Mozart’s Mass in C minor K 427, Beethoven’s Symphony nr.9, Mahler’s Symphony nr. 2 (Resurrection), Karl Orff’s cantata Carmina Burana, Verdi’s Requiem, concert performance of ballet The Legend of Ohrid, Wedding and Rite of Spring by Stravinsky,,,