The Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra ( Serbian : Београдска филхармонија , romanized : Beogradska filharmonija ) is an orchestra located in Belgrade , Serbia. It is regularly considered one of the finest in the country.
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32-515: A Minister of Culture and Information in the Government of Serbia from 2013 to 2016. After stepping down from a Government office, he went back to be a Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra general manager. Tasovac received the ninth position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children list for the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election , running as a non-party candidate. This
48-563: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra Unlike most European countries and cities, Serbia and Belgrade were rather late in receiving a fine orchestra. Thus the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra was founded in 1923. Its founder , first director and chief conductor was Stevan Hristić , one of the most important Serbian composers and conductors . The inauguration concert of
64-563: The Minister of Culture decade later. In 2004, the performance hall in Belgrade was completely rebuilt and modernized to facilitate the new needs of the orchestra. The hall has a total of 201 seats. Most of the concerts, by tradition, take place in the Ilija M. Kolarac Endowment 's Hall, while the "Central Hall" is used for special events. The Belgrade Philharmonic Foundation was set up in 2004 to improve
80-614: The United States of America . On 30 December 2018, Tasovac got seriously injured while playing recreational basketball, breaking spine vertebra . He was immediately transferred to the Emergency Center. In an interview he gave in March 2019, Tasovac said that he went out of hospital in February 2019 and that while in hospital, doctors have also detected and removed a spinal cord tumor that
96-977: The Belgrade Philharmonic Hall attracts numerous renowned companies to promote their products, present their services, as well as to hold their jubilees. Among those there were the American Economic Chamber, and companies like Roche , Pharma Swiss, Common Sense, "Atika Media" and many others. The Belgrade Philharmonic Hall has been the setting for many commercials and videos. The Orchestra was consequently led by eminent conductors: Lovro Matačić, Oskar Danon , Mihajlo Vukdragović , Krešimir Baranović , Živojin Zdravković , Angel Šurev, Anton Kolar, Horst Ferster, Jovan Šajnović , Vassily Sinaisky , Emil Tabakov , Uroš Lajovic , Dorian Wilson and from September 2010 to June 2015 Muhai Tang . A great number of renowned conductors and soloists have appeared with
112-456: The Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra took place on April 28, 1923 under the baton of maestro Hristić. With a steady increase in popularity of fine music in Serbia the orchestra and its programme expanded over the years building up to an exceptional level of musical performance reaching its peak in the 1960s. The Belgrade Philharmonic was ranked 5th best European orchestra by international experts, at
128-1127: The Orchestra, including: Rafael Kubelík , Malcolm Sargent , sir Colin Davis , André Navarra , Karl Boehm , Leopold Stokowski , Kiril Kondrashin , Genady Rozhdestvensky, Lorin Maazel , Aaron Copland , Zubin Mehta , Yehudi Menuhin , David Oistrakh , Isaac Stern , Henrik Schering, Leonid Kogan , Mstislav Rostropovich , Julian Lloyd Webber , Arthur Rubinstein , Sviatoslav Richter , Emil Gilels , Bruno Brun , Milenko Stefanović , Ernest Ačkun , Ante Grgin , Božidar Milošević , Radmila Bakočević , Biserka Cvejić , Miroslav Čangalović , Dušan Trbojević , Rudolf Kempf, Gidon Kremer , Ivo Pogorelić , Tatjana Olujić , Gustav Kuhn , Ivan Fischer , Vladimir Krainev , Maksim Vengerov, Julian Rachlin , Valery Afanassiev , Dorian Wilson , Nigel Kennedy , Sarah Chang , Muhai Tang . Ivan Tasovac Ivan Tasovac ( Serbian Cyrillic : Иван Тасовац ; 21 June 1966 – 29 September 2021)
144-535: The financial situation within the orchestra through sponsorship and cooperation. The foundation was successful and the whole orchestra renewed their instruments in 2005. Currently the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra holds multiple concerts. Its season generally starts in October and ends in June. Its New Year 's concert is very popular and is held in the large Sava Centar performance hall in Belgrade. For its New Year's concert,
160-445: The international community so was the orchestra. After 2000 the orchestra was completely revived. It first toured Slovenia, Austria, Italy and Sweden. The young musicians, educated outside of Serbia in specialist musician centers arrived in at Belgrade Philharmonic creating a new image of the Orchestra, with an average age of just 28. In 2001, the Orchestra general manager became Ivan Tasovac , who stayed on that position until he became
176-469: The orchestra is usually conducted by a special guest. The Belgrade Philharmonic Hall is modernly equipped, located in central Belgrade. Therefore this is where many of the Orchestra's concerts are held. Besides usual orchestra rehearsals, the Belgrade Philharmonic Hall lends itself to soloists, chamber and other orchestra performances, as well as to promotions, presentations, jubilees and exhibitions. The hall has exceptional acoustics. The appealing interior of
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208-524: The time when it was led by Živojin Zdravković . The downfall of the orchestra occurred in 1990s. Due to the civil wars in Yugoslavia the Belgrade Philharmonic was banned from playing internationally for some time. As a consequence many musicians left the orchestra. Without funding, the orchestra rarely played. However, as the political situation in Serbia changed and the country welcomed back into
224-537: Was tantamount to election , and he was indeed elected when the list won a landslide majority with 188 mandates. He was a member of the assembly's culture and information committee, a deputy member of the foreign affairs committee, a substitute member of Serbia's delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe , and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with China , Israel , Russia , and
240-467: Was a Serbian pianist and manager. He served as the director of Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra from 2001 to 2013. He also served as the Minister of Culture and Information in the Government of Serbia from 2013 to 2016 and was elected to the National Assembly of Serbia in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election . Ivan Tasovac was born on 21 June 1966 to actor Predrag Tasovac and Marija, who
256-612: Was piano professor at the music school " Mokranjac " in Belgrade. He graduated piano at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory in the class of professor Sergei Dorensky . From 23 March 2001 to 22 November 2013, he served as the general manager of the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra . He was also a member of the jury in the Serbian version of the international Got Talent show. He served as
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