Marko Josifoski, MMus
Marko Josifoski (1978) started playing violin in “Kosta Manojlovic” music school in Zemun. He graduated from the Faculty of Music in Belgrade and won his master`s degree, both in the class of prof. Dejan Mihailović and later studied at the Hochschule fur Musik in Bern in the class of professor Igor Ozim. There he received a scholarship of the Swiss government. He attended master classes in Austria, Germany, Slovenia, Israel and the US where his professors were: Ida Hendel, Shlomo Mintz, Igor Ozim, Edward Grach, Nam-Yun-Kim, Thomas Brandis and Milan Vitek. He was a member of the “Interlochen Arts Camp (USA)”, where his professor was Allen Ohmes (1993). There he played with the World Symphony orchestra.
He performed for UNICEF in (Parma) and for UN (New York 1992). Marko Josifoski represented ex-Yugoslavia at the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) for young soloists in Istanbul (1990). He has won several first and special prizes at republic and federal competitions in ex-Yugoslavia and the number of international prizes, among which are ”Premio Mozart” in Verona (1990), in Stresa (1989), in the Czech Republic ”Jan Kocijan” (1989), in Italy “Rodolfo Lipizer” competition (1995), ”Golden Angel” for the most successful young artist in 1993, and many others.
Marko has been awarded by Belgrade City Council for his great contribution to the art of music. He also received the award of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences for the best concert in 2003 and the award of Radio Belgrade for the best musician in 2004.
He performed with Romanian Philharmonic, Turkish Symphony orchestra, World Symphony orchestra in the US, Belgrade Philharmonic, Symphony orchestra of Serbian Radio and Television, Macedonian Philharmonic, along with many chamber orchestras in Yugoslavia and abroad performing concerts of Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Bruch, Beethoven, Brahms, Prokofiev and the plethora of compositions written for violin and orchestra.
He has made lasting recordings for many radio and TV stations and in 2007, among which particularly stands out the recording of all Beethoven`s sonatas for PGP-RTS.
He was a violin professor at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad and currently works as a professor at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade. Since 2024, he has been the artistic director of the School for Musical Talents in Ćuprija.