Songs
CD Joka
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- country:Serbia
- region:Balkan
- style(s):Sevdah, Ethno
- label:Balkan Culture Heritage
- type:Band, Small Ensemble
- gender:male, female
- instrumentation:instrumental, vocal, percussion, string, woodwind, unplugged, piano, guitar
- artist contact:Balkan Culture Heritage
Line up
- Bojana Nikolić (vocal)
- Boris Bunjac (percussions)
- Dragana Anđelić Bunjac (piano)
- Dragana Katić (violin)
- Martina Dimić Radovanović (violin)
- Miljana Stamenić (viola)
- Miloš Nikolić (kaval, clarinet, frula, bagpipes)
- Mladen Arsenović (cello)
- Slađan Cvejić (double bass)
- Slobodan Milivojević (classical guitar)
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BOJANA - Bojana Nikolic
She completed her master studies at the Department of Ethnomusicology at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade. She graduated from the Department of Serbian Traditional Singing and Playing in High Musical School "Mokranjac" in Belgrade. The main direction of her research is the vocal styles and techniques of Balkan singing. Bojana is one of the few Balkan singers who performs both vocal styles - rural (roots) and urban traditional music (sevdah and old town songs).
At concerts, she performs songs from the last album Joka, which includes covers of city songs and sevdalinka. Arrangements were made for voice, piano, traditional wind instruments, guitar, double bass, percussion and string quartet. The ensemble consists of highly educated musicians, professors at music academies in Serbia and members of symphony orchestras.
An important part of her work consists of field research that she has carried out in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro. She is actively working on the digitization and publishing of ethnomusicological field audio material.
She held several ethnomusicological lectures and workshops in the country and abroad, in which she represented Serbian and Balkan traditional singing techniqes and vocal styles from Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, Macedonia and Bulgaria. She was a member of the jury in the competitions of groups of singers and musicians. Several times she was a jury member at the Guca Trumpet Festival.
Since the age of 14, she has been singing professionally. She has participated in over 250 concerts in the country and abroad (America, Canada, Mexico, Luxembourg, Belgium, Netherlands, France, China, India, Italy, South Korea, Egypt, Spain, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Greece, England, Czech Republic, Austria, Pakistan, Tunisia, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Russia and Germany). She has collaborated with the National Orchestra of Radio television of Serbia under the direction of Ljubiša Pavković and Vlado Panović, groups Sanja Ilić and "Balkanika", "Biber", Theodosii Spassov, Palia Bea and numerous other musicians and groups that interpret the music of the Balkans.
In October 2010, Bojana Nikolic founded "Balkan Cultural Heritage", with the desire to actively promote and improve the cultural scene in Serbia, in order to promote and preserve the intangible cultural heritage of Serbs and other peoples in the Balkans. The three main segments of "Balkan Culture Heritage" are music production, education and publishing.
In 2011, she launched the "School of Serbian and Balkan Traditional Singing", which is the first of its kind in the region. Bojana combines ethnomusicological scientific and practical knowledge, and teaches styles and techniques of singing from the Balkans.
In 2013, she selected the best students from her school and founded the group "Bojana Nikolić and Serbian Voices" with whom she performed the most difficult and oldest vocal forms and styles of Serbian traditional singing and songs of other Balkan nations. In 2020, they had a concert at a prestigious Morgenland festival.
The CD’s she participated:
''S kolena na koleno'' (2003), ''Sunce jarko treperi da zađe'' (2004), ''Balkan Koncept'' (2004), ''Trojanac'' (2005), ''Serbian Etno Sound I'' (2004), ''Serbian Etno Sound II'' (2005), ''Serbian Etno Music Box'' (2006), ''Biber'' (2004), ''Carski drum'' (2006), DVD Balkanika Live - Concert on Kalemegdan (2006), ''Salad'' (2011), solo CD ''Oj, goro'' (2012), with Serbian voices ''Kad zapjevam'' (2014), Golubica (single, 2024).
As a publisher in the Balkan Culture Heritage Center, she has published 14 audio editions and a book by ethnomusicologist prof. PhD Dimitrije Golemovic. Several editions are supported by the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia.
She is a frequent guest of national TV and radio shows.