{"id":11626,"date":"2017-01-01T21:11:17","date_gmt":"2017-01-01T21:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rossifest.estrela.io\/?page_id=11626"},"modified":"2026-11-01T21:19:36","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T21:19:36","slug":"en-o-nama","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rossifest.estrela.io\/en\/en-home\/en-o-nama\/","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Rossi Fest<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About us<\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Festival director<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Stefan Zeki\u0107<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Conductor<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Founder and director of Rossi Fest<\/em>. Graduated from the University of Arts, Faculty of Music in Belgrade, in two departments: conducting and solo singing. Additional education includes trainings and workshops with the most prominent european conductors, such as: Uros Lajovic (AU), Michael Sheck (BE), Andrew Parrott (UK), and Max Frey (GE). Currently, he\u2019s pursuing Phd at the University of Arts in Belgrade in the field of opera conducting. He began conducting at the age of 17 and since 2006 he\u2019s the chief conductor of the Baruch Brothers Choir<\/em>. He\u2019s a founder and artistic director of the ensemble for early music Canticum Novum<\/em>, and is the conductor of the Jewish chamber orchestra. Since the season 2009\/10 he\u2019s engaged at the National Theatre of Belgrade where his first performance was Le nozze di Figaro<\/em> (W. A. Mozart). In 2014. he became the chief conductor of the Opera studio of the National Theatre and successfully performed two premieres \u2013 Die Zauberflote<\/em> and Bastien und Bastienne<\/em>. He also performed a notable concerts in cooperation with many different ensembles such as Madrigal Choir<\/em> and Symphony Orchestra of University of Arts in Belgrade, Vocal Ensemble Oktoih<\/em>, Musica<\/em> (Slovenia), Vocal Ensemble Marienhain<\/em> (Germany), St. George Royal Strings<\/em>, Jewish Chamber Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra Stanislav Bini\u010dki<\/em>, Montenegro Symphony orchestra, etc. Stefan Zekic won numerous national and international rewards at the prestige festivals and competition, as well as special reward of the state of Israel for a remarkable contribution to strengthening Israel-Serbia relations. Among the prominent artists he has collaborated with are Oscar-winner Ji\u0159\u00ed Menzel, John Ramster, Martin Evans, Olga Makarina, Istv\u00e1n Sz\u00e9kely, Eraldo Salmieri, Claudia Eder and others.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Artistic committee<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Ana Stefanovi\u0107<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Musicologist, professor at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Full-time professor at the University of Arts, Faculty of Music in Belgrade and associate Researcher at IreMus, Paris. She earned her MA degree at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade and her PhD in musicology at the Paris-Sorbonne University (Universit\u00e9 Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV). Main areas of her research are: baroque opera, solo song, relation between music and text, as well as questions of musical style and stylistic analysis. She is also the author of six volumes of The Anthology of Serbian Art Song<\/em> (Belgrade, UKS, 2008-2014), books La musique comme m\u00e9taphore, La relation de la musique et du texte dans l\u2019op\u00e9ra baroque fran\u00e7ais: de Lully \u00e0 Rameau<\/em>, (Paris, L\u2019Harmattan, 2006), Temporality and Narrativity in Music Drama<\/em> (Belgrade, FMU, 2017), along with a large number of studies and articles published in reviews for musicology and music theory. Prof. Stefanovi\u0107 organized various international conferences in the field of music theory and is the author of various collections of papers in the field of music theory.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Branka Cveji\u0107-Mezei<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

President of the Baruch Brothers Choir<\/em>, retired director of the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For most of her career she held the leading positions in cultural institutions in Serbia. She graduated Flute and Piano at the Faculty of Music, Belgrade, where she also earned her MA degree. She specialised in Paris at the \u00c9cole Normale de Musique<\/em>, where she receives a diploma Licence de concertes<\/em>. Since 1971 she was a full-time member of the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, firstly as a soloist (first flute), and in 1988 she became its director, a position she held for 12 years. Later she\u2019ll become a deputy director at the National Theater in Belgrade (2000-2001), and then filled the role of coordinator and counselor on cultural and humanitarian matters within Karic Foundation<\/em> (2001-2006).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Ladislav Mezei<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Violoncellist, professor at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Full-time professor at the Chamber Music Department of the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, where he earned his BA and MA degrees. He specialised at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music<\/em> in Budapest. His extensive artistic biography includes two seasons playing as a solo cellist of Sarajevo Opera and Philharmonic Orchestra, full-time membership in Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra and lead cellist position (1975\u20132004), then solo performances with Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra, Vojvodina Symphony Orchestra<\/em>, RTS Symphony Orchestra, Military Orchestra of Yugoslavia and more. He was a soloist and member of baroque ensemble Muzika Florida<\/em> and academic chamber ensemble Ensemble Jeunesse Musicale<\/em>. Among his performances stands out the Millenium Gala Concert<\/em> in NY Lincoln Center<\/em> in 1999. He is a permanent associate at the orchestra Camerata Serbica<\/em>, as well as the member of Pancevo string quartet<\/em> (today: Arco String Quartet<\/em>). He\u2019s the founder of Jewish Chamber Orchestra, with which he has made a large number of performances. The string quartet TAJJ, whose member mr. Mezei is, became in 2005 the first quartet that earned an MA degree at the Faculty of Music, Belgrade.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Organising team<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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  • Jelena Zeki\u0107<\/li>\n\n
  • Mila Pavlovi\u0107<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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    Volunteers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Thank you to the many friends and everyone who has supported the festival over the years.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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