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The Serbian contralto, Lidija Jovanović, she started her musical education in Belgrade playing piano at the age of 6. As a young pianist she won numerous prizes at various competitions in Yugoslavia. After getting the Eurobank EFG scholarship for the best students of Serbia and the Scholarship for young talents of the Republic of Serbia she decides to pursue her development as a pianist with a master in interpretation at the HEMU Lausanne. Alongside her piano studies she took singing lessons and in 2011 she started bachelor in singing at the HEM Geneva. In the followings years she becomes a member of the Swiss Opera Studio studying in the class of the great contralto Nathalie Stutzmann. She got the opportunity to learn from artists such as Mariella Devia, Christiane Stutzmann, Sara Mingardo, Jadwiga Rappé, Jeannette Fischer, Marijana Mijanovic, William Blank, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Xavier Sabata, Miquel Ortega. In July 2018 she won the 3rd Prize in the 5th International Singing Competition Un Futuro DEARTE in Medinaceli, Spain.
In the 2019-2020 season, Lidija Jovanović performed Flora Bervoix in La traviata at the Opéra-Théâtre Metz Métropole (musical direction David Reiland, staging Paul Émile Fourny). Opera roles performed during studies include Zita in Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, Mother Bayard in Paul Hindemith's The Long Christmas Dinner, Dritte Dame in W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte. In the 2020-2021 season, she was Cherubino in W.A. Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro at the Opéra-Théâtre Metz-Métropole (musical direction Kaspar Zehnder, staging Joël Lauwers); and in the 2021-2022 season, Mercédès in Georges Bizet's Carmen at the Opéra de Reims (musical direction Cyril Englebert, staging Paul-Émile Fourny).
Lidija Jovanović's concert repertoire includes the major contralto parts such as J.S. Bach's Matthäus-Passion BWV 244 or George Frideric Handel’s Messiah. She has collaborated with conductors such as Nathalie Stutzmann, Bojan Suđić and performed with orchestras as RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra (Ireland), Stavanger Symfoniorkester (Norway), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra (UK), Symphony Orchestra RTS Belgrade (Serbia).
Very attached to contemporary music, Lidija Jovanović has sung Die Köchin beim Oberst in Die Gespenstersonate (Reimann) with the Ensemble Contrechamps and Johannes Kalitzke at the Radio Suisse-Romande, L'Élégie (Domagala) at the 6. Festiwal Prawykonan Polska Muzyka Najnowsza in Katowice with Orkiestra Muzyki Nowej and Szymon Bywalec, Nous? La raison du coeur (Huber) on the occasion of composer's 90th anniversary (Société de Musique Contemporaine Lausanne), Songs for voice & piano (Kurylewicz) at the Festival Dni Muzyki Andrzeja Kurylewicza in Warsaw.
As an alto soloist Lidija Jovanović has performed with many choirs in Switzerland - Choeur Neuf de Lutry, Choeur ProArte, Ensemble Vocal de Terre Sainte, Capella Concertata (Director: Yves Corboz), Choeur La Chanson du Pays de Gruyère, Choeur Caecilia de Saint-Jean.
Her performances broadcast on several radio stations across Europe. |
