Mileta Stankovic

Soloist, chamber musician, and first cellist of many chamber orchestras.

I teach cello to students of all experience levels, beginner to pro. I teach the entire cello repertoire. In addition to my work as a soloist and chamber musician, I have taught cello continuously since 1986. My cello students have gone on to participate in prestigious music programs such as Interlochen.

EDUCATION
-Elementary School of Music: "Dr. V. Vuckovic", Belgrade, Serbia with Professor Ms. Vera Lukic - 1972-1973.
-Elementary and High School of Music: "Kornelije Stankovic", Belgrade, with Professor M. Kostic - department of cello - 1977-1978.
-Bachelor of Music - University School of Music, graduated with honors with Professors Ciril Skerjanec and Milos Mlejnik, Department of Cello, Ljubljana,Yugoslavia - 1981-1982.
-Master of Music - University of Belgrade, Serbia - Department of Cello - 1983-1984.
-Freshman year - University of Belgrade, Serbia - Department of Art History - 1983-1984.

WORKSHOPS:
-Master Class of Cello with Professor Michael Flaksman, USA/Switzerland - dodaj godinu
-Attended international cello courses and assisted in teaching cello with Professor Walter Despalj, Groznjan - 1977.
-Attended international cello courses and assisted in teaching cello with Professor Danijela Safran, Groznjan, Yugoslavia - 1981,1983.
-Attended international cello courses and assisted in teaching cello  with Professor Boris Pergamescikov,  Luxemburg, 1982.
-Attended international cello courses and assisted in teaching cello with Professor Michael Flaksman, Groznajan, Kotor, Hvar, Yugoslavia, 1987 and Arandjelovac, Yugoslavia, 1988.

PERFORMANCES:
- Performed at recognized festivals of contemporary music:
- The Third Festival of Contemporary Music, Citta di Udine, Udine, Italy, 1979.
- The Seventh Memorial: " Franjo Krezma", Osijek, Yugoslavia (Meeting of young Yugoslavian strings performers), 1981.
- Rovinj's Music Festival - An International Festival of Music Academies, Rovinj, Yugoslavia, 1981.
- Festival of Music Academies in Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, 1982.
- The eleventh competition of music students in Belgrade - won the first place in the category of piano trio, Belgrade, Yugoslavia 1982.
- Students' Performance - member of cello octet in the following concerts: Ljubljana, Skofija Loka, Maribor, Kopar, Dubrovnik and Dubrovnik's international festival: "Dubrovacke Letnje Igre", 1982.
-Soloist with Prof. Jasmina Gavrilovic (University School of Music, Belgrade, Serbia) Piano Accompaniment, First International Festival of Contemporary Music, Levadia, Greece, 1989.
-Soloist with Prof. Aleksandar Vujic, piano Accompaniment, Serbian Days in Israel, 1990.
-First Music Meeting, Seres, Greece, 1994.
-Soloist, with strings orchestra" Maestro Strings", The Second Festival of Balkan Cities in Thessaloniki, Greece.
-Early Music Festival, Belgrade, Serbia.
-First Cello with the following strings orchestras: Belgrade Sinfonietta, Maestro Strings, King's Strings of Saint George.
-Soloist of Nemanja Radulovic's, world famous violinist of younger generation, chamber orchestra: "Double Sens".
-Soloist - Summer Festivals in France with Double Sens chamber orchestra.
-Soloist, Gala Concert in prestigious, Gaveau Salle, France with Double Sens chamber orchestra.

SOLO RECITALS:
-Performed classical repertoire - 150 solo concerts.
-First to perform (among Serbian artists) music masterpieces of J.S. Bah (Five Coral Preludium), Chopin's Sonata, Rachmaninoff Sonata, Grigov's Sonata, Shopen's Introduction and Polonaise Brillante and Vivaldi's  Seventh, Eighth and Ninth Sonata.
-Worked with domestic and international artists in Dubrovnik, Ljubljana, Zagreb, Kopar, Maribor, Skopje, Subotica, Rovinj, Podgorica, Banja Luka, Udine, Athens, Levadia, Kardica, Thessaloniki, Crete, Nicosia, Paris, Budapest, Tel Aviv.

CELLO RECORDINGS AND VIDEOS:
-Musical Archive of Radio Television of Serbia - two CDs.
-To be released - two new CDs

INVITATIONS:
-The first World Cello Congress organized by Mstislav Rostropovich, Maryland, USA, 1988.
-Soloist and Professor - The Largest Music Festival, Jakarta, Indonesia, 2012, 2013.

ORGANIZATIONS:
-American Association of Music Education - Member
-Serbian-Jewish Friendship Society - Member
-Yugoslavian-Norwegian Society - Member
-Music Jury - member, ASEAN Concerto Competition, 2013.

Mileta's cello students have gone on to participate in prestigious music programs such as Interlochen.