Milenko Stefanović

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Milenko Mima Stefanović (born February 19, 1930 in Belgrade, Serbia ) is the most famous Serbian clarinetist.

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[edit] Education

He started to study music at the age of five. Later, during his studies (B.M. and M.M.) at the Music Academy in Belgrade with professor Bruno Brun, he continually appeared as a soloist at concerts and won the highest prizes at different Yugoslavian musical competitions.

[edit] Awards

Stefanović won the First Prize at the Yugoslav National Competition (1956), several prizes at the international competitions in Moscow (1957), Munich (1957), Geneva (1957), and Prague (1959). He was also rewarded the Award of the Yugoslav Radio-Television (Ohrid, 1972), Award of the Community for Culture of the City of Belgrade (1975), "7 July" Prize (1962), the highest state's prize for the arts, as well as many other honours.

[edit] Recordings and concert tours

Stefanović has played and recorded in concert halls and for radio and TV stations in Yugoslavia, but also in Moscow, Warsaw, Rome, Paris, London, Brussels, Bratislava... He played with or under such conductors as Aaron Copland, Herbert von Karajan, Živojin Zdravković, Jovan Šajnović, Lorin Maazel, Leopold Stokowski, Kiril Kondrashin, with pianists Eric Hope, Zorica Dimitrijević-Stošić and many others. As a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician he played in Europe, North America and Africa. Distinguished Yugoslavian composers Aleksandar Obradović, Petar Bergamo, Dušan Radić, M. Ilić, Petar Ozgijan, Dejan Despić, and others dedicated to him their works.

[edit] Positions held and affiliations

Mr. Stefanović was principal clarinetist of the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, member of the Belgrade Jazz Trio [1] and professor at the School of Music " Josip Slavenski" in Belgrade, the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, the Faculty of Arts of Priština (Stefanović is among the founders of its Music Division and now is professor emeritus at this Faculty), and also a vice-chancellor of the University of Arts in Belgrade. His former students hold teaching positions and/or play in orchestras in Europe, Asia and North America.

He is member and former president of the Association of Musical Artists of Serbia and was president or member of juries at many Yugoslav and several international competitions.

[edit] Selected recordings

  • Despić: Nine Dances for clarinet solo (devoted to M. Stefanović)
  • Kalčić: Music Concertante for clarinet and orchestra
  • Obradović: Microsonata for clarinet solo (devoted to M. Stefanović)
  • Stamitz: Concerto in B flat major
  • Vauda: Sonata Brevis
  • Weber: Concertino (with BBC Orchestra)
  • Weber: Concerto No. 2

[edit] Reviews

" The brilliant Yugoslav clarinettist Milenko Stefanovic" (The Guardian Journal)

" Clarinettist of sensitive gifts

It was a pleasure to hear the Yugoslav clarinettist again last night...he showed a quite outstanding technical facility. Listening to his performances... one realised that he is not just another fine player but an artist endowed with unusually comprehensive and sensitive gift of interpretation." (The Daily Telegraph)

" Outstanding clarinet

...the musical event of evening was Milenko Stefanovic's performance of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto. The soloist's breath control, tonal quality and mastery of phrase and paragraph was such that the work seemed to be taking shape on the spot. I have heard a few outstanding performances of this work, but never one so inspired as this." (Music and Musicians)

" Romanticism flowed at full tide... exciting" (The Guardian Journal)

" Brilliant virtuosity" (Music and Musicians)

" A magnificent...strong and brilliant." (The Yorkshire Post)

" Listening Milenko Stefanovic performing we have considered the confirmed estimation which put him among the most talented clarinetists of now days." (Politika)

" Virtuosity with the clarinet

Milenko Stefanovic, the clarinettist, must be a tremendous asset to the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra for he is remarkably virtuoso performer... he seemed to be performing on an instrument which was at times akin to the trumpet at others to whispering oboe... breadth and humanity in Schumann's 'Phantasiestucke' where the clarinet's tone took on a sunny tinge, and the long, voluptuous phrases of Brahms's sonata in E flat were generously produced.Debussy's first Rhapsody was always diverting and a sensuous tone increased its romantic elements. An unaccompanied work 'Concerto Abbreviato' ...was technical tour the force." (The Daily Telegraph)

" Clarinet player of a wide range

...Mr. Stefanovic has a tone of enormous range and power... He has - what so many clarinet players lack - the best asset of all: a stout pair of lungs. But his breathing into the instrument, its warmth of tone especially in lowest registers and his impeccable phrasing, atamp him more particularly as an outstanding musician." (The Yorkshire Post)

[edit] References

  • Eberst, A. (1963): Klarinet i klarinetisti , Forum, Novi Sad
  • Maksimović, M. (1971): Beogradska filharmonija 1951-1971 , Beogradska filharmonija, Beograd
  • Mala enciklopedija Prosveta, III (1978), Prosveta, Beograd
  • Mišić, R. (2001): Živeti uz note , Muzička škola "Stevan Hristić", Kruševac
  • Muzička enciklopedija, III (1977), Jugoslovenski leksikografski zavod, Zagreb
  • Odom, D. (2005): A Catalog of Compositions for Unaccompanied Clarinet Published between 1978 and 1982 with an Annotated Bibliography of Selected Works , A treatise submitted to the College of Music, Florida State University
  • Pedeset godina Fakulteta muzičke umetnosti (Muzičke akademije) 1937-1987 (1988), Univerzitet umetnosti u Beogradu, Beograd
  • Peričić, V. [1969]: Muzički stvaraoci u Srbiji , Prosveta, Beograd

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