MILENA INJAC, M.A. (Conductor)

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Milena Injac (1969) was born in Nis, Serbia. She took her Bachelor and Master of Arts Degrees in Orchestra, Opera and Choral Conducting at the Belgrade University of Arts’ Faculty of Music and perfected her skills at the Bartók Seminar and Vienna Masterclass. With the Nis Chamber-Symphony Orchestra, Milena Injac won First Prize in the Fivizzano Chamber Orchestra Competition Prize at the Third International “Music World Festival” in Italy in 2000, and First Prize with the Nis Chamber Choir at the Christmas Choir Festival in Katerini, Greece, 1999. She has conducted in Serbia and Montenegro (Belgrade, Nis, Novi Sad, Podgorica), Bosnia, Macedonia, Hungary, Italy, Austria, Bulgaria, Greece, Sweden, Spain and United Kingdom. Currently, she works as Associate Professor and Chief Conductor of the Symphony Orchestra Faculty of Art, University of Nis, Serbia. Previously she has been Music Director of the Belgrade New Music Workshop, Nis College of Music String Orchestra, Nis Chamber Choir, Academic Chamber Orchestra SKC University of Nis, Opera Studio Faculty of Art, Nis Chamber-Symphony Orchestra and Nis Symphony Orchestra (1999-2003).

Milena Injac has a repertoire of over 400 works ranging from Baroque to contemporary music. She has performed in most of the leading Serbian concert halls, including National Theatre Belgrade, Congress Centre “SAVA” Belgrade, The “Kolarac” Great Concert Hall Belgrade, Studio M Novi Sad, as well as the Open air stage (3,000 seats), located in the old Turkish Royal Fortress, in Nis. She also performed at the Macedonian National Theatre, Skopje, the National Theatre, Sarajevo, the Royal Theatre Cetinje - Montenegro the Bartók Hall, Szombathely, Hungary, as well as the “Man and Earth” Crystal Hall and Union of Bulgarian Composers Concert Hall in Sofia, Bulgaria, Theatre of City Karditza (Greece), Holy Trinity Church, Buckinghamshire, UK, Gete institute theatre in Rome (Italy), Concert Hall and Nosaby Church in Kristianstad (Sweden) and specially created open aria in front of the biggest Orthodox Cathedral St. Sava in the very center of Belgrade. She has made many recordings for radio and TV broadcasts in Serbia & Montenegro and abroad. Her teachers have included Radojica Milosavljevic (High Music School, Nis), Stanko Sepic and Darinka Matic-Marovic (Faculty of Music, Belgrade), Mladen Jagust (Novi Sad), Angel Surev (Belgrade Opera), Jorma Panula (Finland), Stefan Sköld and Eric Ericson (Sweden), Peter Eötvös ( Hungary) and Salvador Mas Conde (Spain).

Milena Injac is a member of the Artistic Council and Jury for the Nis Summer International Choir Festival and the Nis International Music Festival ( NIMUS ). Milena Injac is awarded with Gold Badge - Prestigious Festival Award of 20.International Choir Festival – Nis 2004 for interpretation of vocal-instrumental works and two world premieres. Her recent performance of opera comic G.B.Pergolesi: “La Serva Padrona”(“Maid as a mistress”) was nominated for “Culture event of the 2008. year” in Nis, Serbia. Ms.Injac directed, conducted and played continuo for opera performance, which was successfully performed in Spain (Murcia), 2008 as well.