Darinka Simic-Mitrovic (born February 19, 1937) is a Serbian author, composer and music educator.

Biography

Simic-Mitrovic was born in

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. She earned a degree from the Music Academy in Belgrade in 1962, where her teachers included Emil Hajek and Predrag Milosevic. After graduating, Simic-Mitrovic taught piano at the Music School

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, where she received the 1964 April 4 Award of the Federation of Students. In 1967, she began working as a music editor at

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. She married Mirosav Mitrovic in 1975 and they had two daughters. Simic-Mitrovic is a member of the Composers’ Association of Serbia. In addition to composing music, she wrote a book about Serbian theatre, and contributed to a history of the Belgrade Symphony Orchestra and Choir of Radio-Television Belgrade. Her works have been published by Radio Beograd and Zvonik. They include:

Books

*''A Sentimental Story of Serbian Theatre'' *''Da Capo all’Infinito: Half a Century Since the Founding of the Belgrade Symphony Orchestra and Choir of Radio-Television Belgrade (with Slobodan Atanackovic and Sveta Lukic)''

Chamber

*''Sonata'' (violin and piano) *''Igre'' (dances; bassoon and piano)

Vocal

*''Gradinar'' (song cycles; mezzo-soprano and piano; text by

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) *''Vrati Mi Moje Krpice'' (song cycle; two sopranos, violin, flute, harp and cello; text by

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References

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