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Premil Petrović, conductor, graduated from the Faculty of Music in Belgrade (Department of Music Theory), and afterwards studied conducting with professor Winfried Müller at the Hanns Eisler Hochschule für Musik in Berlin. He graduated in 2005 conducting Il Cambiale di matrimonio by Rossini with soloists and orchestra from the Hochschule, and Wagners Tannhäuser Overture with the Brandenburger Symphoniker. He was awarded theHeinrich Böll scholarship as well as the prestigious scholarship Musik Theater Heute of the Akademie der Deutschen Bank, which enabled him to attend interpretation courses held by the leading conductors of today.
With a group of friends Premil Petrović started in 1996 a music theater in the Cinema Rex independent production (Radio B92). He conducted Mozart’s singspiel Bastien und Bastienne performed at the Budva City-Theater Festival and Bitef, Manuel de Falla’s El Retablo de Maese Pedro at the Belgrade Music Festival (1997), Schönberg’s Pierrot Lunaire at the International Review of Composers (Belgrade, 1998) as well as L’Histoire du Soldat by Stravinskyin 2000. At the Belgrade Music Festival 2001, Petrović conducted Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde in Schönberg’s orchestration, with the Festival Ensemble. In 2002 he made his German debut as a conductor with the Berliner Symphoniker, with which he subsequently appeared on several occasions. He conducted the world première of Anja Đorđević’s opera Narcissus and Echo at the Belgrade Music Festival 2002. He opened the same festival in 2004 with the Belgrade première of the opera Zora D. by Isidora Žebeljan (directed by David Pountney). Premil Petrović is also regularly invited to perform at the Belgrade International Cello Fest, appearing with St. George Strings and the world’s leading cellists. In 2005 he conducted for the first time the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra. With this orchestra he had a highly praised concert at the Belgrade International Review of Composers in November 2007.
From 2006 till 2008 he was a piano accompanist and conductor at the Nordhausen Opera in Germany. In 2006, he conducted world premiers of a series of compositions by contemporary German composers in Berlin.
In April 2007 he conducted the opera Zora D. by Isidora Žebeljan at the renowned Zagreb Music Biennial, аnd three more performances of this work in Serbia (Belgrade, Sombor) and Croatia (Rijeka).
In 2008 he conducted several new productions: world premiere of the stage cantata Atlas by Anja Đorđević at the Yugoslave Drama Theatre in Belgrade (directed by Aleksandar Denić), world premiere of the new opera of Isidora Žebeljan The Marathon Family at the Opera Festival in Bregenz, Austria (Bregenzer Festspiele, directed byNicola Raab) and most recently the new production of W. A. Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the 42nd BITEF (Belgrade International Theatre Festival), co-produced by Jugokoncert and Belgrade Fair.