Nevena Pejcic

Composer
Arranger
Pianist
Bandleader

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🎓 Education

  • Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln - Jazz Composition & Arrangement
    Master's Degree, 2024
    Final project: Original compositions for Big Band & Saxophone Quartet (Prof. Florian Ross)
  • Faculty of Music Arts, Belgrade - Jazz Piano
    Master's Degree, 2020
    Bachelor's Degree, 2019

🏆 Awards & Recognitions

  • 2023 - Shared Planet 9 Project, Cologne & Berlin - Composer, Pianist, Conductor
  • 2022 - "Intertwined Treetop" selected for In Search of Our Musical Roots tour (Albania, Montenegro, Bosnia)
  • 2021 - "Wald" selected for Balkan Youth Jazz Orchestra in Montenegro
  • 2020 - Serbia Creates Award - Top 30 artworks in Serbia
  • 2020 - 2nd Prize at Constantine the Great International Competition, Serbia (Vocal Quartet MING)
  • 2019 - 3rd Prize at international competition in Romania (Vocal Quartet MING)
  • Shortlisted Composer - Balkan Youth Orchestra (2021), In Search for our Musical Roots (2022)

🎼 Projects & Performances

Vocal Quartet MING - Founder, Composer, Arranger, Pianist

  • Festivals: Nišville, Belgrade Stories, Subotica City Day, Jazz in the Park (RO), Banski dvor (BA), Pancevo, Novi Sad, Kosovska Mitrovica, and more
  • Recorded original arrangements and working on debut album

National Theater, Belgrade - Theater Pianist (since 2018)

  • "Bolivud" (Dir. Maja Pelević) - Performed at Nišville Theater Festival
  • "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (Dir. Nataša Poplavska)
  • "Home" (Children’s Play, Dir. Zagorka Stojanović) - Original score