Snježana Pavićević & Vladimir Vanja Šćepanović: Concert & Master Class

Piccolo player Snježana Pavićević and pianist Vladimir Vanja Šćepanović visit Levine for a special recital and master class featuring piccolo music from the Balkans. Join us for an interactive class and sit back for a remarkable performance with these world-renowned guest artists.

This event is sponsored in part by Burkart Flutes and Piccolos.

Snježana Pavićević’s professional career started in 1994 when she was appointed for the position of piccolo solo at the Belgrade Opera Orchestra. In 2002, Snježana became a solo piccolo flutist at the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra. She has collaborated with many orchestras and conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Muhai Tang, Mihail Jurowsky, Kiril Petrenko, Krzysztof Penderecki, Howard Griffiths, Andres Orozco Estrada, Tomas Sanderling, Gabriel Feltz, Leif Segerstam, Daniel Raiskin, En Shao, and Howard Griffits. Besides her orchestral engagements, she also plays with various chamber ensembles and performs recitals with flute, piccolo, and alto flute. She is the founder and the artistic director of “Belgrade Piccolo Weekend,” a festival dedicated to piccolo flute with master classes, concerts, workshops and exhibitions of musical instruments.

Vladimir Vanja Šćepanović has performed as a soloist and chamber artist throughout Europe and North America. He has performed in art festivals in Serbia, such as Rosi Fest, International Review of Composers, Festival of Slavic Music Belgrade, Art Festival ARLEM, Tisin cvet, Golden Sounds, as well as international festivals Flute Days, Days of Vlade S. Milošević (Banja Luka, Serb Republic), Carniarmonie, Nei Suoni dei Luoghi (Italy), NFA 50th Golden Anniversary Convention (Chicago, USA) and others. A special part of his concert repertoire consists of works by Serbian composers, which he performed for solo piano and in various ensembles. In 2014, together with violinist Katarina Popović and clarinetist Mihailo Samoran, he founded the Aratos Trio, which is actively engaged in artistic research and performance of repertoire for the clarinet trio with a special focus on the music of the 20th and 21st centuries. He is also the founder of the art projects “Four sides of the world,” “Music pour trois,” and “MozART,” which are supported by the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia. He is employed at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, and in the National Theater in Belgrade as an opera accompanist.