Mladen Djordjević, MMus
Mladen Đorđević was born in 1969 in Belgrade. At the age of six, he started to study trumpet. He has graduated and got his MA degree from the Faculty of Music Arts in Belgrade. In 1995, he became a professor at the abovementioned faculty, where he still gives lectures as full professor.
He was a laureate of several regional competitions. In 1991, in Zagreb, he won the third prize at the competition of Music Artists of Yugoslavia, which, at that time, was the most important music competition of ex-Yugoslavia.
In 1988, he became professionally engaged as the second trumpet player in Radio-Television Belgrade Symphony Orchestra and by the end of the following year, he became the third trumpet player of the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra.
From 1991 to 2011, he had been the first trumpet soloist of the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, gradually developing into one of the leading trumpet soloists, both in Serbia and in the Balkans. He performed with various conductors and soloists (part of the solo post horn in Mahler’s Third Symphony with Zubin Mehta, Ravel’s Piano concerto with Martha Argerich, J. S. Bach’s Second Brandenburg concerto with Sreten Krstić, other performances with Valeriy Afanasiev, Pol Mayer, Leopold Hager, En Shao, K.A.Rikenbaher among others), as well as with all the relevant orchestras in Serbia and Balkans.
The repertoire of Mladen Đorđević encompasses classical trumpet repertoire, from the Baroque to the XX century and Jazz. In his career, he has been particularly interested in works of Serbian composers and in the promotion of new pieces of music, some of which have been dedicated to him – S. Božić: Lazarevo bdenije, koncert za trubu (Lazar’s Vigil, Concert piece for trumpet) J. Bošnjak: Otkrovenje Sv. Jovana za solo trubu i veliki Hor (The Revelation of Saint John for Solo Trumpet and Choir), D.Despić: koncert za trubu i orkestar (Concert Pieces for Trumpet and Orchestra), A.Grgin: Laura-Jazz svita.