MIOMIR RISTIC graduated cello from the Faculty of Music in Belgrade (studies in the
class of Prof. Stanislav Apolin, and the diploma exam in the class of Prof. Francoise
Jakoveic). From 1971 to 1973 he was a member of the Academic Chamber Ensemble (conductor
Dušan Skovran), and since 1972 he has been a full time member of the Symphonic Orchestra
of Belgrade Radio and TV. For over 20 years he has sung old Serbian and Byzantine
chants in the ensemble of singers of Pavle Aksentijevic. In addition to music his
interests are tennis, swimming, skiing, trekking on Zlatibor, Tara, Kopaonik, Šar-
He attended advanced courses in the performance of early music on historic instruments,
musicology or early music, conducting and rehearsal of small and large ensembles
in Switzerland (1970), FR Germany (1969, 1971, 1972, 1973), Austria (1974, 1975,
1980) and in Great Britain (1976). With singers society RUKOVET, which he founded
in the honour of “Two Centuries of Vuk” in 1987, he performed in Italy (1987), Holland
(1988), Hungary (1990), Cyprus (1992) and released several audio tapes with the blessings
of Serbian Patriarch Paul: “Service to St. Sava”, “Christ Is Arisen”, “Serbian Christmas”,
“Vidovdan” (“St. Vitus Day”), “Reunion of Holy Serbs”, “Serbian Chanting in Sarajevo”,
CDR “Holy Liturgy”, “Holy Serbia”, “Chilandar Words”, as well as interactive CD's
“2000th Birthday of Our Lord” and “Serbian Chants”. Dragan Mladjenovic has been awarded
Golden Badge of the Ministry of Culture (1990), Plaque “Mokranjac Days” (1990), the
Karadjordjevic Charter (1996) and Plaque “White Angel” (1999). For years he been
persistently stating that traffic jams, especially during the rush hours, are the
reason for him being late for rehearsals so often. Since 1966 he has been nicknamed
“Shakespeare”, because at a school performance he was so suggestive and convincing
in playing the role of Hamlet, that it made Alex the Penguin exclaim “Here's Shakespeare!”.
LJUBOMIR DIMITRIJEVIC graduated from the Academy of Music in Belgrade in 1973 in
the class of Prof. Jakov Srejovic, where he also completed his post-