Dragana S. Jovanović was born in Belgrade in 1963. She graduated from the Facultyof Music in Belgrade in the class of Srđan Hofman. She studied for her master’s degree with Srđan Hofman and Milan Mihajlović. She is currently a doctoral student. She works as assistant professor at the Music Theory Department, Faculty of Music in Belgrade. Her principal fields of interest and devotion are composing (art music, as well as applied and popular genres), pedagogy and reasearch in the arts.