User:Dmedak80/Pavle Medakovic

Pavle Medakovic (Serbian Cyrillic: Павле Медаковић) (October 11, 1953 - ) is a Serbian conductor.

Biography
Born in Belgrade 1953.(Yugoslavia), graduated conducting from the Faculty of Music in Belgrade 1977, and acquired the M.Mus. degree at the Hochschule für Music in Vienna at Prof. Karl Österreicher 1982 and the Belgrade Faculty of Music 1990. He received advanced training at the master classes with Prof. Pierre Dervaux and Sergiu Celibidache. While he was studying he worked as a conductor of the famous “ Branko Krsmanovich “ chorus with which he won two first prizes at the Belgrade Chorus Festival in 1976. The same year he became the Principal conductor of the Belgrade Chamber Opera and he performed operas by V.Fioravanti, D.Cimarosa, Menotti, G.Rossini, L.Chailly, G.Bizet, D.Radich, to mention just a few. With the same ensembles he conducted in Udine (Italy) at the Fourth International Festival of Modern Chamber Music. He performed concerts with the Belgrade Philharmonic, Serbian Radio-Television Symphony Orchestra, Macedonian Philharmonic, Nis Symphony Orchestra, Seville Symphony Orchestra (Spain), Warsaw Radio Orchestra (Poland), Burgas Symphony Orchestra and Ruse Symphony Orchestra (Bulgaria), Dresden Philharmonic (Germany). For two years he was the Artistic Director of Franco-Yugoslav Musical Week, as a conductor of the Symphony Orchestra. After his successful concert with the “Ignaz Paderewsky” Philharmonic Orchestra in Poland he became their permanent guest conductor for many seasons. For two years he worked as a conductor at the Summer Academy of Sacred Music in Studenica Monastery (Serbia). Mr. Medakovich was the Artistic Director and the first conductor of the Symphony Orchestra in Mostar (BH Federation) from 1983 to 1985. For two seasons, from 1986 to 1988, he was the conductor of chorus “Abrashevich” in Belgrade. From 1988 Mr. Medakovich is the Principal conductor and Artistic Director of the Symphony Orchestra “Stanislav Binicki”, Belgrade. The 2000 he was Director of Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra. At the moment he is Principal conductor and Artistic Director of Symphony Orchestra “Stanislav Binicki”, Belgrade. He is also a professor of orchestral training at the “Academy for Beauty Arts” in Belgrade. During 29 years working as a conductor Mr. Medakovich has had more than 1,000 concerts of symphonic and choral music. His repertoire comprises pieces of music from classic to contemporary composers. Having in mind the repertoire, Mr. Medakovich can take over (“jump in”) conducting the orchestra in case the planned conductor cancels his participation in the last moment. Moreover, he has exceptional contact with young soloists who have first appearance with orchestra. He has successfully collaborated with the following artists: Vadim Brodsky (violin, Italy), Nikolai Demidienko (piano,Russia), Pavlina Dokovska (piano, SAD), Maria Baranowska (violin, Polen), Georgios Demertzis, (violin, Greek), Neal Larrabee (piano, SAD), Massimo Giorgi (doublebas, Italy), Mico Dimitrov, (piano, Bulgaria), Andrej Nikolsky, (piano, Russia), Boris Pamukdzijev (oboa, Bulgaria), Ivan Zenati (violin, Tscheh), Konstantin Bogino (piano, Paris), Igor Laszko (piano, Paris), Vladimir Krpan (piano, Croatia) Jovan Kolundzija (violin, SCG), Ksenija Jankovic (cello, Germany), Sreten Krstic (violin,Germany), Natasa Veljkovic (piano, Austria), Stefan Milenkovic (violin, SAD), Jasminka Stancul (piano, Austria), Rita Kinka (piano SCG),  Aleksandar Madzar (Belgium), Darko Velickovski (SAD), Dejan Bravnicar (violin, Slovenija), Radmila Bakocevic (soprano, SCG), Radmila Smiljanic (soprano, SCG), Ruza Pospis-Baldani (mezzosoprano, Croatia),Vladimir Ruzdjak (barytone, Croatia), Gertruda Munitic (soprano, BH), Jadranka Jovanovic (mezzosoprano, SCG), Milena Kitic (mezzosoprano, SAD),Irena Zaric (mezzosoprano SAD), Boris Trajanov (barytone,Germany) Gordana Jevtovic (soprano, SCG), Dunja Simic (soprano, Germany), Jovo Reljin (tenor, Swiss), Slobodan Stankovic (barytone, Swiss), Dubravka Zubovic( mezzosoprano, SAD), Nikola Mitic (barytone, SCG), Oliver Njego (barytone, SCG), Istvan Varga (cello,SCG), Ivan Dinic (piano, SCG), Aleksandar Sandorov (piano, SCG), Dejan Sinadinovic (piano, SCG), Dubravka Jovicic (piano, SCG), Maja Jokanovic (violin, SCG), Ilija Marinkovic (violin, Vienna), Nemanja Radulovic (violin, Paris), Nenad Lecic (Köln), Ognjen Popovic (clarinette, SCG), Sanja Bizjak (piano, Paris). Mr. Medakovich is a member of the Association of Music artist in Serbia.