Sanja Ranković, PhD
Sanja Ranković graduated at the Faculty of Music Arts in Belgrade (1994) from the Department of Ethnomusicology. She defended her PhD thesis in 2013, at the Faculty of Music Arts in Belgrade too (under mentorship of professor Mirjana Zakić).
In 1993, she started a female singing group MOBA. In 1994, she started working as an ethnomusicologist in the National Ensemble “KOLO“. She started the Department of Traditional Serbian Singing and Playing at the Music school “Mokranjac” (1995) and was the first professor of traditional singing in Serbia. She has had notable performances in Serbia (author of traditional music concerts BEMUS in 2007, and in 2010) and abroad.
Since 1998, she has also been teaching traditional singing to the students of the Faculty of Music Arts in Belgrade at the Department of Ethnomusicology. Since 2013 Sanja Ranković is an assistant professor at the Department of Ethnomusicology. In 2012 students of her class won two first prizes and one second prize at the Optina Spring competition (Russia), and laureate (2016) and one second prize (2012) at the International Voice Competition in Braila (Romania).
She was the author of two full – length musical stage plays, which were performed at the National Theatre in Belgrade and one in Switzerland. She has delivered numerous lectures, seminars, and workshops in the country, as well as abroad (Switzerland, Germany, France, Macedonia, Croatia, Hungary, Austria, Canada, Poland etc.).
She has directed her scientific – research work to studying vocal practices. She collaborates on ethnomusicological projects of Matica srpska from Novi Sad and Faculty of Music Arts in Belgrade.
Sanja Rankovic was awarded with the recognition of Association of Music and Ballet Pedagogues of Serbia for the successful annual (2001) and perennial (2006) pedagogical work. She is an active member of the Serbian Ethnomusicological Society, CIOTIS and International Association of ICTM.