Zdravko Ranisavljević, PhD
Zdravko Ranisavljević (Sremska Mitrovica, 23rd October 1981) received his master’s degree from the Department of Ethnomusicology of the Faculty of Music in Belgrade in 2008. He is currently in the final year of his doctoral studies at the same Department. Since 2004 till 2015 he has been teaching Folk Dance at the Mokranjac Music School in Belgrade and since October 2010 he has also been employed at the Department of Ethnomusicology of the Faculty of Music in Belgrade.
He is the President of the Center for Research and Revitalization of Traditional Dances of Serbia, where he edits music and dance for the purposes of seminars organized by the Center. Since 2009 he has worked as a research assistant on the projects of the Serbian National Ensemble Kolo. He is the Artistic Director of the folk orchestra of the Stanko Paunović cultural-artistic society from Pančevo, one of the more eminent societies of this kind in Serbia today, and the expert consultant for the folk orchestra of the Kosta Abrašević cultural-artistic society from Bačka Palanka. He is the recipient of over a dozen gold plaques and special prizes for music arrangement at choreographed folklore festivals in Serbia, the region and the diaspora.
He is an active member of ICTM and ICKL, renowned international organizations for the study of traditional music and dance. Since 2006 he has participated in several symposiums organized by these associations, where he represented current Serbian ethnochoreological and ethnomusicological practice. He has authored several scholarly papers in the fields of ethnochoreology and applied ethnomusicology and participated in numerous ethnochoreological/ethnomusicological symposiums and seminars in the country and abroad. He was included in a few EU project – the field of Culture, in the last five years.