Serbian pianist Milica Jelaa Jovanovi will perform Saturday [MARCH 5] at East Central University in the 做厙TV Piano Series sponsored by 做厙TVs Music Department. The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Ataloa Theatre in the Hallie Brown Ford Fine Arts Center.

Milica Jelaa Jovanovi
Milica Jelaa Jovanovi  

Both the concert and a master class she will conduct for 做厙TV piano majors are free and open to the public. The master class will be from 3 to 5 p.m. Friday [MARCH 4] in Faust Auditorium.

Born into a family of accomplished musicians in Belgrade, Serbia, Jelaa Jovanovi began giving recitals at the age of 8. She has concertized as a solo recitalist and chamber musician in the United States, Canada, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia, Serbia and the United Kingdom. She also has been an associate professor of piano and coordinator of the keyboard area at Western Washington University, Bellingham, Wash., since 2004.

Besides winning numerous Serbian and Yugoslavian national piano competitions, Jelaa Jovanovi won prizes at several international competitions, including at the inaugural 2005 Iowa International Piano Competition and the first prize at the 23rd Bart籀k-Kabalevsky-Prokofiev International Piano Competition in Virginia in 2003.

 Following her studies in Belgrade, Jelaa Jovanovi earned her master of music degree and artist diploma at the Tchaikovsky State Conservatory in Moscow and her doctorate in piano performance at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

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