Nemanja attracted serious attention with integral interpretation of Messiaen’s Vingt regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus, whose perfomance was the first among the Serbian pianists. That brought him several important national prizes such as: Award for the best concert of the season of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Award from the Fondation Ivan Jevtić, Award Nevena Popović fo...
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Nemanja attracted serious attention with integral interpretation of Messiaen’s Vingt regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus, whose perfomance was the first among the Serbian pianists. That brought him several important national prizes such as: Award for the best concert of the season of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Award from the Fondation Ivan Jevtić, Award Nevena Popović for the most significant artistic achievement. In 2022 Nemanja was honored as the best artist of the year by the Association of Musical Artists of Serbia, which is one of the most prestigious award in Serbian musical culture. Besides artistic honors, he recevied many awards and Laureates within traditional and contemporary piano music competitions such as Reconstruction, ULJUS, Davorin Jenko, Klavitas, INSAM and many others.

Nemanja performs regulary as a soloist and chamber musician from 2015, and so far he has made more than hundred perfomances. He appeared on many international festivals such as Lucern Piano Festival, Мusica al Ponte, International Review of Composers, Piano City, NIMUS, CONVIVIUM MUSICUM, BLISS, BUNT, ect. Nemanja’s programs are mostly made from traditional and contemporary works, and his every concert has its own meta-musical concept. In 2022 he recorded an album with previously unrecorded works of avant-garde composer Joel Chadabe within the fondation Electronic Music Foundation in New York. Currently, he prepares an album with the works of Miloje Milojević and Claude Debussy. In his country, Nemanja made many premiers of modern and contemporary composers such as Olivier Messiaen, Luigi Nono, Luciano Berio, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Jonathan Harvey, Edison Denisov, Ivan Fedele, György Kurtág and many others, which distinguish him as one of the main perfomer of contemporary music in Serbia. He has two official ensembles – piano duo STEVAN NEMANJA with pianist Stevan Spalević, and duo Syrinx with the flutist Angelina Nikolić – with whom he has a very successful concert activity playing many capital works.

Nemanja finished his Bachelor and Master studies in the class of Miša Dacić. Afterwards, he studied advanced piano courses in Italy with Bruno Canino and contemporary piano music with Emanuele Arciuli. He also completed doctoral academic degree (DMA) under mentorship of Maja Rajković and Miloš Zatkalik. His DMA thesis is about symbolic explications of Messiaen’s Vingt regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus. Nemanja collaborates with esteemed pianists and professors such as Peter Hill, Momo Kodama and Pierre Sublet. Currently, he works as piano accompanist for strings and voice at the Faculty of Arts in Niš.

Born in Trstenik in 1991, Nemanja encountered the piano atypically late at the age of twelve. He started exploring music through alternative genres, sound art and composing, while he fell in love with performing classical music only towards the end of his regular studies. He is most interested in newer musical trends, and his repertoire is often made up of traditional and contemporary composers – where through the clash of aesthetic differences one could seek several faces of one artistic truth.
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