TIJANA DJURICIC

BEHIND THE CURTAIN

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Tijana Djuricic is a soprano, journalist, manager in arts and culture and theoretician of arts and media from Belgrade, Serbia. As a singer, she is a member of the UMUS and works as an Independent Performer.

Due to her stage presence, language skills and warm, colourful voice, she earned a reputation of  a well received opera and concert singer.

After the primary and secondary music school 

(prof. Andjela Saramandic, prof. Olivera Jovanovic) and the tours with the  ensemble Operetica (prof. Ljubica Zivkovic), Tijana organised and performed more than 50 solo recitals and over 150 concerts (Serbia, Italy, Germany, France, Japan).

Enrolling at the Faculty of Music, University of Belgrade as the first on the list, she had the privaledge to work with prof. Nikola Kitanovski (tenor). Djuricic graduated from the Faculty of Philology and Arts, University of Kragujevac in 2010. as a student of the famous soprano, prof. Radima Bakocevic. Afterwards, she continued to hone her interpretational skills with the favourite soprano of Herbert von Karajan, Bulgarian diva, Anna Tomowa Sintow.

Tijana has won prizes from all domestic singing competitions: Republic competition, Vojislav Vuckovic, Nikola Cvejic, Laza Jovanovic. And has worked with following  conductors: Fermani, Medakovic, Tasic, Janoski, Savic, Injac, Nesic.

In  2010. Djuricic made her debut as a Stanka, the lead female role in the first Serbian opera Na uranku by S.Binicki  in Knjazevsko-Srpski Theatre, Kragujevac. 

During the last two years she has been working on various projects: Way to Bel canto, Haydn in London,  Robert Schumann Festival, Viva l'opera, Passion Espanola, Music of the Hearth, Light and sounds, Puccini Magic, EU Play...

With the help of Jugokoncert, Company Bene and the Serbian Embassy in Tokyo, Tijana confirmed successfull cooperation  with colleagues from Sweden (Djuro Zivkovic, composer), Japan (Jun-ichiro Taku, flute, Tai, Kozakura, Haruyuki...) and Serbia (Jovan Bogosavljevic, violin, Milica Sekulic, the piano), in the project Contemporary music of Serbia and Japan (Tokyo 2011).

For a humanitarian concert (named KIBOU, "hope") dedicated to Japan and the Japanese people in Kolarac Hall (May 2011), Djuricic performed the premier of a piece of Hideki Kozakura El canto quiere ser luz.

During 2013th with the Wordly Circle of Serbia Tijana gives lectures and performances in Tokyo and Nagoya, underlining the contemporaty music trends of both cultures.

As a professional  journalist and manager in art, culture and mass media, Tijana teaches as assistant  professor at the NOVA  Academy of Arts in Belgrade and Faculty of Technical Science (Scen Design) in Novi Sad.

Currently she is on the second year of the Interdisciplinary phd studies dedicated to Theory of Art and Media at the University of Arts in Belgrade.

Since 2012th, she has been a PR manager of the Regional office of the German National Tourist Board.