Biography

Nemanja Stanković was born in Kragujevac where, as the class valedictorian, he completed high school education in the class of Prof. Boža Saramandić. As a student of generation, he graduated in the class of Prof. Sandra Belić at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade. He studied at the Vienna Conservatory in the class of Prof. Natalia Gutman, where he obtained a Master of Arts degree. He attended postgraduate studies at the „Mozarteum“ University in Salzburg where he studied with Prof. Enrico Bronzi, as well as at the „Scuola di Musica di Fiesole“ in Florence, where he worked with Prof. Natalia Gutman and Prof. Elizabeth Wilson. In March 2015, he defended his DMA at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade. He attended master classes of renowned artists, such as Ralph Kirshbaum, Mischa Maisky, Alfred Brendel, Jens Peter Maintz and David Strange.

As a soloist, Nemanja Stanković performed with the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, the RTS Symphony Orchestra, the Camerata Serbica Orchestra, the Italian Youth Orchestra (Orchestra Giovanile Italiana – OGI), the Chech Virtuosi Orchestra, the St. George Strings Chamber Ensemble, the Niš Symphony Orchestra, the Dušan Skovran Belgrade String Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Bitola, the Chamber Orchestra of Zrenjanin, the Christianstad Symfoniker, etc. He collaborated with distinguished conductors, among which are Rafael Payare, Fabrice Bollon, Bojan Suđić, Noam Zur, Denis Shapovalov, Biljana Radovanović, Le Phi Phi and Nicola Paszkowski. Stanković performed throughout Europe (Austria, Italy, France, England, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, Denmark, Hungary, Poland, Malta), North America (USA, Canada, Mexico), Asia (Japan) and Africa (Senegal and Tunisia). He had notable performances at international festivals: BEMUS, Cellissimo, NIMUS, OKTOH, Alpen Classica, KotorArt, Mokranjčevi Dani (Days of Mokranjac), International Cello Fest, STRINGS.