Tatjana Milošević Mijanović (b.1970) completed her undergraduate and postgraduate studies of composition at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade with Zoran Erić, who also supervised her doctoral artistic project, which she presented in 2013 – a two-act chamber opera titled Ko je ubio princezu Mond? (Who Killed Princess Mond?). Today Tatjana is a full professor at the same department. She also teaches composition at the Academy of Art (Akademija umjetnosti) in Banja Luka. She was a visiting professor at the Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia (USA). She participated as a lecturer and member of the jury in the young composers’ course at the 15th Young Composers Meeting in Apeldoorn (Netherlands).
Works by Tatjana Milošević Mijanović have been performed at a number of major festivals and concerts of contemporary music in the majority of European countries, in the United States, South Korea, and featured in festivals in Serbia and abroad (BEMUS, NIMUS, International Review of Composers, Music Biennale Zagreb, World New Music Days, International Week for New Music Bucharest, International Music Festival Romania, pianoRISUONANZE, Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie, Music Harvest, Nuovi spazi musicali…).
She has collaborated with numerous Serbian and foreign performers and ensembles: the RTS Symphony Orchestra, Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, St. George Strings, Ensemble for new music Construction Site, Trio Pokret, Trio Singidunum, Academic choir Collegium musicum, Belgrade Baroque ensemble, Het Trio and De Ereprijs (the Netherlands), Creo (USA), Trio Clavino (SAD), ensemble devotioModern (Romania)…
Tatjana Milošević Mijanović has won a number of Serbian and international awards for music composition.
About the piece
Ka zvezdama 3 [To the stars 3] for accordion and string orchestra was composed in 2024 on the initiative of Nikola Peković. The work’s dramatic flow is inspired (the same as the first two parts of the triptych) by the greatest epos in Roman literature, Virgil’s Aeneid, which is often symbolically related to striving to high achievements. Unlike the first two pieces of the triptych which are based on two contrasting thematic materials, and which unfold in wide strokes, Ka zvezdama 3 is built from several simple motifs which are spread unpredictably, almost asynchronously. Towards the end of the piece, a motoric segment from Ka zvezdama 1 occurs, which rounds off the cycle thematically and dramaturgically.