Faculty of Music University of Arts in Belgrade

Faculty of Music University of Arts in Belgrade

Belgrade-born Serbian musicologist Dr. Dragana Stojanović-Novičić is a specialist for contemporary Serbian, American and European music. Lately, she has been dedicated to the music and life of Vinko Globokar, Edgard Varèse, John Cage and Conlon Nancarrow. She has written five, co-created two, and co-edited two books. Her studies appeared in American Music, New Sound, Musicology, Treći program, Mokranjac, Sveske. She participated at musicological conferences in Europe and US (Serbia, Republic of Srpska/Bosnia and Herzegovina, Switzerland, UK, France, Finland, Missouri, California). Recently (in 2016), she has been a recipient of the Fulbright scholarship which enabled her to be a visiting professor and scholar at Bard College, NY, USA; there she was teaching a course «Music of the European Avant-Garde» as well as «The Ear Training» class, and conducted a research on John Cage at John Cage Trust. She received a postdoctoral grant for perfection abroad from the Government of Serbia – Ministry of Science (2008), and a Swiss research grant from the Paul Sacher Stiftung in Basel (2006/7). She is a participant at Jean Monnet Module “Musical Identities and European Perspective” (Erasmus+ Program EU) of the Department of Musicology at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade. While Edward Jurkowski, describing her chapter in The Ashgate Research Companion to Minimalist and Postminimalist Music, writes that she “provides a fascinating historical narrative of the origins of minimalism in Serbia,” Kyle Gann asserts: “She’s a fantastic scholar, obsessed with detail.” She has performed as a pianist; she made a solo recital in Zürich, Switzerland, in November 2015. Being drawn to the scene, she designs a music-musicological happenings with a dramatization of certain aspects of composer’s life that includes actors, video artists, musicians, and of which one, on Conlon Nancarrow, was realized at Belgrade Music Festival (BEMUS) in 2012.