Marko Savić

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Marko Savić
Professor Marko Savić (2008)
Background information
Birth name	Marko Savić
Born	April 26, 1941 (1941-04-26) (age 70) Prizren, Yugoslavia – now Kosovo
Genres	Classical
Occupations	Soloist, Teacher
Instruments	Piano

Marko Savić (born 26 April 1941) is a Serbian pianist and university professor.

Education

Marko Savić graduated from the Belgrade Music Academy in 1965 (Music Theory) and 1969 (Piano). He completed his postgraduate studies in Piano Performance at the Faculty of Music in Skopje (1986). His major teachers were Marko Tajčević (Music Theory), Jelica Popović and Branko Cvetković (Piano Performance).

Performance career

Marko Savić performed in numerous recitals, chamber music concerts and concerts as a soloist with orchestras throughout Yugoslavia (Belgrade, Skopje, Pristina, Prizren, Đakovica, Opatija, Rovinj, etc.).

Teaching career

Savić has been esteemed as a piano pedagogue. His students won top prizes at various competitions in Paris, Geneva, Città di Ostuni, Stresa, Belgrade, Ljubljana, Valjevo, Niš, Skopje, Dubrovnik, Novi Sad, Šabac, etc.

He has been a jury member at piano competitions held in Belgrade, Pristina, Niš, Vranje, Trstenik and Lazarevac.

He received numerous awards for his pedagogical work, including a 1974 award of the Association of Music and Ballet Pedagogues of Serbia^{[1][not in citation given]} and a 1999 award of the European Piano Teachers Association.^{[2][not in citation given]}

Marko Savić is currently Full Professor of Piano at the University of Pristina Faculty of Arts, where he has been teaching since 1975. He also taught at the Josip Slavenski School of Music in Prizren and the College of Pedagogy in Pristina.

Notes

1. ^ http://www.umbps.org.rs/O%20Udruzenju.html
2. ^ http://www.epta-europe.org/

References

• Pedeset godina Fakulteta muzičke umetnosti (Muzičke akademije) 1937-1987, Univerzitet umetnosti u Beogradu, Beograd, 1988.
• List of full professors at the University of Priština, Retrieved on 6 June 2010.
• List of academic staff at the University of Priština Faculty of Arts, Retrieved on 10 October 2008.

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Name	Savic, Marko
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