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Ognjen Popovic studied at the “Hochschule für Musik” in Munich in the class of Ulf Rodenhauser, where he finished masterclass in 2001. He won the second prize at the international competition “Jeunesse musicale” in Belgrade 1997 and the first prize at the “Felix Mendelssohn” competition in Berlin 1998.
He played concerts in Yugoslavia, Germany, Holland, Italy, Spain, Hungary, Greece, the Ukraine, Russia, China and Japan. As a soloist he performed with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, the orchestra of Radio Television Serbia, the string ensemble St. Georg, the Radio Orchestra of Valencia/Spain, the European Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Munich Music Academy and so on.
From 1998 to 1999 he played first solo clarinet in the international “Philharmonic Orchestra of Nations”. He played with the German Chamber Academy, the studio ensemble of “Villa Musica” and in the opera in Stuttgart / Germany.
Since 2002 he plays first solo-clarinet in the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra. He founded the ensemble “Balkan Chamber Academy” and the ethno – fusion – jazz ensemble “Ognjen and friends”. He is also a clarinet / saxophone professor at the “Academy of fine arts” in Belgrade and docent for chamber music at the “Villa Musica” academy in Germany and clarinet docent at the Music academy in Belgrade.

Đuro Pete was born in Laslovo (Croatia). He finished secondary music school under the mentorship of Vjekoslav Burić, and he graduated from Academy of Music in Novi Sad, in 1984, under the mentorship of Mihajlo Kelbli. As a student he won numerous awards, including the first prize at the Festival of Serbian Music Youth in Knjaževac and the second prize at the competition of artists in Zagreb in 1983. He participated at the meeting of Academies of Music in Ljubljana and Youth meetings „Zajedno“ in Sarajevo. In 1983 he acquired the status of an artist from Vojvodina. He has played with the Youth philharmonic orchestra of Vojvodina, the Youth philharmonic orchestra from Pečuj, Hungary, and he has also recorded for RTV Zagreb, and Novi Sad. He has been teaching at the secondary music school „Isidor Bajić“ in Novi Sad, since 1984. His students have also won the highest awards at the republic and state competitions. He has been a member of the jury at several republic competitions, and also at the Competition of Woodwinds in Požarevac.

Igor Požar was born in 1968 in Zagreb, where he finished primary and secondary music school in prof. Miroslav Stanek’s class. He graduated from Zagreb music academy in 1990 in prof. Josip Tonžetić’s class. He has performed with chamber ensembles in Croatia and Slovenia. He has occasionally cooperated with Croatian chamber orchestra. He has been teaching clarinet and saxophone for many years and has won numerous awards with his students, both at Croatian state competitions and international competitions as well. He won some of these awards at the International competition in Pozarevac. Many of his students are professional musicians now. After graduation he worked at secondary music school ’’Zlatko Baloković” in Zagreb. He has been working in music school ”Brežice” in Slovenia since 1994.

Miloš Bjelica was born in Belgrade in 1986. In 2005 he graduated from secondary music school “Davorin Jenko” in the class of Professor Ljubiša Jovanović. He graduated from the Faculty of Music Art in Belgrade 2009 in the class of Professor Ante Grgin. He works as professor of clarinet in MS “Vatroslav Lisinski” since 2006. His students have so far won 16 first, 4 second and 2 third prizes in contests.
He received the highest awards at national and international competitions (first prize in Greece 1997, first prize 2003 and second 2005 in republic competition in Serbia, in the international competition MS “Vatroslav Lisinski “ in Belgrade he won the first one in 2005 and special award 2006. On international competition MS “Davorin Jenko” in Belgrade he won two special awards 2005 and 2006 and two first prizes 2007 and 2008 and a third in 2009. On international Peter Konjović competition in sixth category wins third prize 2008.
Miloš Bjelica is one of the founders and a permanent member of the clarinet quartet “Nevsky” since its foundation 2004. The quartet has won seven special and one first prize at the national and international competitions and held over 80 concerts in country and abroad.  Also, he is a member of the trio Con Spirito, which was founded in 2008. This trio has held numerous successful concerts.
So far, he successfully attended master classes with professor Miloš Gerić, Ljubiša Jovanović, Jan Jakub Bokun, Paul Mayer, Mate Bekavac, DR Stephanie Zelnick, Bruno Di Girolamo.
He has performed as a member of the orchestra “Camerata Serbica” and “Stanislav Binički”.
He had a solo performance with orchestra of the Yugoslav Army. As a soloist and chamber musician he performed in all the important halls in Serbia (Kolarac Hall, home of the Army Yugoslavia, SASA Gallery, etc..), but also beyond the borders of Serbia: in Austria, Germany, Russia, Italy, Greece, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria. He also had a solo and chamber performance in the National concert season in Serbia, 2008.
He had organized numerous concerts of his colleagues and the most important are: Concert of Maister trio from Slovenia in the hall of the Faculty of Music, concerts of quartet Nevsky throughout Serbia, and so on. Since 2010 he become the President of the International association of music lovers, in which he organized humanitarian action and various other activities.
 
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