Milana Stojadinović Milić

Milana Stojadinović Milić (1962, Serbia) is a full professor of compositional and technical disciplines at the Department of Composition of the Faculty of Music in Belgrade. She has written several orchestral works, a large number of chamber music compositions for various instrumental and vocal-instrumental ensembles, soloist and choral compositions. Her works have been premiered and performed many times in the country and abroad, recorded on CDs, especially within the international project Contemporary Symphonic Music of the Balkans. Scores of her piano music and art songs have been published in several thematic editions. She has collaborated with many renowned performers, orchestral and chamber ensembles, domestic and foreign. She has won a number of awards for her compositions.

About the work

In the autumn of 2018, at the instigation of pianist Maja Rajković, I composed Tristezza… inspired by the memory of Dragan Šljivančanin, the sounds and landscapes he loved and in which he found happiness and peace. Maja’s testimonies about the person who greatly marked her life, guided me in my attempt to somehow touch Dragan’s being in the other world with music; I tried to transpose his joys of life and musical “loves” into this small musical mosaic: a sunny coast… the Italian Renaissance… a lonely leafy tree in the middle of a vast green meadow on a plateau under the sky… and Stevan Mokranjac’s Tebe pojem… Maja’s miraculous performance has carried this humble miniature throughout Europe and the world.