
Instrumentalist
Mina Mendelson 
concertmaster
Biography
She was born in Belgrade. She completed her doctoral artistic studies in violin at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, in the class of Prof. Fern Rašković, and continued her training with David Takeno, Sabine Grollmus, Stephan Baratdue, Sreten Krstić and Mateja Marinković. She has performed in many cities in Serbia and abroad (China, Turkey, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Hungary, Bulgaria, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia). As a soloist she has performed with the Niš Symphony Orchestra, the Dušan Skovran Belgrade String Orchestra, the Mokranjac Chamber Ensemble, the St George Strings, the Jewish Chamber Orchestra and the Orchestra of the University in Zhuhai (China), and with the conductors Nelson Leong, Dr Suzana Kostić, Dr Milena Injac, Stefan Zekić, Vesna Šouc and Obrad Nedeljković. She has worked at the Faculty of Arts in Niš since 2003 and is currently associate professor of violin in the Department of String Instruments.
At Rossi Fest
- 2019 Concert: Portraits and Remembrance – concertmaster
- 2020 Concert: Portraits and Remembrance – violin
- 2022 Concert: Portraits and Remembrance – violin
- 2022 Summer Opera Academy 2022 – first violins (Jewish Chamber Orchestra)
- 2023 Esther – first violins, concertmaster
- 2024 Erev shel shoshanim – violin
- 2024 Concert: Portraits and Remembrance – concertmaster
- 2024 Summer Opera Academy 2024 – violin
- 2025 Concert: Portraits and Remembrance – violin
- 2025 Rossi’s Open Bar – violin



