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The Serbian conductor, violinist, teacher, and researcher, Tamara Adamov Petijević, studied the violin in the String Department at Academy of Arts Novi Sad; and conducting at Fakultet Muzicke Umetnosti Beograd. She attended many master-classes and seminars of conducting throughout Europe, working with world-famous conductors. She enrolled in Ph.D. studies in conducting at the Faculty of Music Art in Belgrade (the final project was performed in May 2018: Oratorization of the Opera Kitezh by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov). She achieved a doctoral degree in conducting at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade in 2018-2019.
Tamara Adamov Petijević has been conducting for 30 years. She is a researcher in the field of choral music, and leader and artistic director of three choirs and two symphony orchestras, with approximately 300 mostly young people. As a violinist, she was for many years an active member of symphony and chamber orchestras, and afterwards also a teacher of violin. She conducts the renowned Orthodox Church Choir of St. Stephen of Dechani, the IsidorBajic Music School mixed and female choirs, and a professional vocal-instrumental oratorio Studio Orfelin. She conducted the boys’ Choir of the Karlovci Seminary of the Serbian Orthodox Church as the first female-conductor and teacher in the history of that institution which was founded in the 18th Century. Her choirs and orchestras won many prizes at national and international choral competitions and festivals.
Tamara Adamov Petijević's conducting was awarded many times, including the “Best Conductor Performance” title at the International Choral Competition in Prague, Czech Republic and First Prize Summa Cum Laude at the International Competition of Youth Orchestras in Neerpelt, Belgium. In 2017 she received the Grand Prix for the best conductor at the Chamber Choirs Competition in Kragujevac and was awarded the Female Performer of the Year by the magazine Muzika klasika. She was awarded the title Ambassador of Good Will at Zimriya Festival in Jerusalem and several high national prizes for her pedagogical work. The choirs and orchestras under her leadership were awarded at numerous national and international competitions. She performed in almost all European countries, Russia and Israel.
Tamara Adamov Petijevic's work as a researcher in the field of sacred, choral and oratorio music resulted in numerous projects, such as recording of 20 CD's of choral and sacred music and editing and publishing three music collections of Serbian Orthodox music.
As a lecturer and presenter, Tamara Adamov Petijević was a guest conductor at choral workshops and master-classes for liturgical and choral music in Chicago, Toronto, Torino, and Hungary. She is a member of the Regional Artistic Committee of Europa Cantat choral association, as well of many international juries at choral competitions, and the first woman - conductor and professor at Sremski Karlovci Seminary in the long history of that institution from the 18th century. She is the artistic director of the International Choral Festival in Niš and member of the Programme Commission of the Festival “Days of Mokranjac” in Negotin. In May 2017 she initiated and was one of the founders of the Serbian Choral Association in Sombor, with 120 choirs from Serbia and abroad. |
