Marija Gluvakov – Medenica (

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: Марија Глуваков – Меденица) (born 3 April 1973), is a Serbian

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and

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Education

Gluvakov was born in Senta,

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, formerly

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. She received her early training in music schools in Novi Kneževac, Bihać and Zemun. She graduated from the Faculty of Music in Belgrade in 1995, as the best student of the year. She completed there, with the highest marks, her postgraduate studies in both

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(1999) and

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(1997).Marija Gluvakov’s biography at the Faculty of Arts website
Retrieved on September 3, 2008 Her primary teacher wer
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Miloš Ivanović and Olivera Djurdjević. She also studied with Dušan Trbojević, Arbo Valdma, Rita Kinka and with Russian pianists Dorensky and Pisarev, professors at the

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. In 1995 she was invited to continue her studies at the

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. The invitation was made by famous Professo
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member at the

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who was especially delighted by Gluvakov's performance of the Third Piano Sonata of

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. Report on Marija Gluvakov at the Faculty of Arts website
Retrieved on August 15, 2008 Report on Marija Gluvakov at the University of Priština website
Retrieved on August 15, 2008Biography
at the website of ''Dom kulture Studentski grad'', Retrieved on April 12, 2013Biography
at the website ''Izlazak.com'', Retrieved on April 12, 2013

Awards

As a soloist and chamber musician, Marija Gluvakov won top prizes at many state and federal competitions in former

, as well as at the international competitions in

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and Stresa,

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(both in 1995).

Performance career

Marija Gluvakov has been performing throughout Serbia and abroad. The highlights of her

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include the premiere of the composition named ''Gambit'', written by eminent Serbian

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Rajko Maksimović (1995), performances in the Great Hall of the Ilija M. Kolarac Endowment in Belgrade, in the Church of St. Sophia in Ohrid, at the international

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s BEMUS, NOMUS, ''Donne in musica'' and ''ClarinetFest'' (with clarinetist Andrija Blagojević, I.C.A. National Chairperson for Serbia), recitals in

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and

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organized by EPTA, participation in the project named Classical Guerrilla (a cycle of concerts held in 2002 in the Hall of the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra), collaboration with Serbian and foreign

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s in several

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l projects, etc. In addition to frequent

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and

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recitals, as a soloist with orchestras, Gluvakov has performed standard piano

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s ( Bach,

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, Schumann, Liszt). She has recorded for the

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and

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Teaching career

Marija Gluvakov gained her first teaching experience during her postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, as a

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of Professor Ivanović (1995–1998). She got her first professional teaching engagement at the same

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, where she taught

and Accompaniment and Sight Reading under the supervision of eminent piano pedagogues Miloš Ivanović, Aleksandra Pavlović, Tijana Humo and Jokut Mihailović (1998–2004). Gluvakov has been teaching at the University of Priština Faculty of Arts since 2004. She served first as an accompanist and secondary piano

(2004–2008). She was appointed

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in 2008.

Affiliations

Ms. Gluvakov has been a member of the Association of Musical Artists of Serbia since 1996.Members of the Association of Musical Artists of Serbia
Retrieved on August 15, 2008

External links

Biography

Faculty of Arts of Priština

Assistant professors at the University of Priština

Faculty of Music in Belgrade

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gluvakov, Marija 1973 births Living people People from Senta Academic staff of the University of Pristina Academic staff of the University of Arts in Belgrade Serbian women pianists University of Arts in Belgrade alumni 21st-century Serbian classical pianists