Milana Stojadinović-Milić (Serbia) graduated and acquired her M. Mus. Degree in composition from the Faculty of Music in Belgrade. She works as assistant professor at the Department of Music Theory at the same Faculty. Her pieces have been performed at festivals and concerts, broadcast on radio and television programs, at home as well as abroad: in Croatia, Slovenia, Republic of Srpska, Macedonia, Montenegro, Italy, France, Germany, Great Britain, Bulgaria and Greece. She has been awarded numerous times by the: Composers’ Association of Serbia (three times), International Review of Composers (twice), Vasilije Mokranjac Fund (twice) and Josip Slavenski Award… Her most important pieces are Melody for string quartet, Sonata for violin and piano, pieces commissioned by festivals, such as: wind quintet Kaleidoscope (BEMUS, 2001), violoncello trio EOL (Cello Fest, 2008), quartet Tango sentimental for bandoneon, violin, double bass and piano (concert project Tango after Piazzolla). Soloists and chamber ensembles also commission pieces from the composer. These include: Tears – a cycle of ten songs, and Fragment of the Meantime, for voice, flute and piano; Neoromantico, trio for flute, violin and piano, Dream for flute and piano, Sky above Studenica for piano; symphonic pieces Aurora borealis and Mimicry, as well as Duo simbolico for piano and symphony orchestra, all performed in Serbia and abroad (Aurora… is a part of international project of concert cycle and CD edition Contemporary Balkans Music).

Aeolus (Eol) is a god of ancient Greeks, master of winds… Aeolian is one that belongs to wind, that refers to wind…  Aeolian is the mode, also…  Aeolian is the harp, the pipe with strings that just like the thing that shows the direction of the wind, once exposed to the wind turns and utters gentle sounds, usually in chords… Aeolian sediments appear when from the surfaces of rocks the wind brings on tiny stone and mineral powder, and then blowing that dust on at far distances, and when the power of wind subsides, that dust falls on the ground and makes sediments… Aeolus are three cellos… three melodies… three letters in (Serbian) title…

(Aleksandar Latković, Emil Bekir and Pablo de Naveran at the Cello Fest in Belgrade performed the piece for the first time, July 8 2008).