Jovana Damnjanović is a Graduate Assistant at Georgia State University in the department of Georgia State Bands. A native of Serbia, she graduated in Flute Performance at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad and received a Master of Musical Arts with Honours. Ms. Damnjanović studied with Professor Laura Levai Aksin for the duration of her studies at AUNS.

 

Jovana was a Scholarship winner for the International Summer Academy by the Universität für Musik and darstellende Kunst, Vienna. In collaboration with pianist Dunja Crnjanski at SANU (Serbian Academy of Science and Arts), she has performed for many notable events such as Privrednik, ‘A’ Fest, and Shumann Fest. As a very active chamber musician, Ms. Damnjanović is a member of the Serbian-based flute trio “Flora”, one of the founders of award winning trio “Vivaldi”, and a member of the Atlanta-based “International Counterpoint” woodwind trio (with whom she recently performed at the US Navy Band International Saxophone Symposium in Washington, D.C.) She recently was a prize-winning performer at the Great Composers Competiton with pianist Daniel Padovan.

 

She has performed for masterclasses with some of Europe’s most distinguished flutists, such as: Kersten McKall, Felix Renggli, Dejan Gavrić, Norbert Girlinger, Lior Eitan, Nataša Marić. Outside of classical music, Jovana’s interest in Eastern Balkan native/folk music has led to her performing with Serbian prize-winning native music and dance performing groups in Austria, Switzerland and most of the Balkan countries.

Jovana Damnjanović performs on a Platinum plated Muramatsu flute.