{"id":2995,"date":"2022-10-25T14:45:22","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T14:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cassia.qodeinteractive.com\/?page_id=2995"},"modified":"2025-05-07T20:44:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T20:44:51","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mionacvijovic.com\/index.php\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2995\" class=\"elementor elementor-2995\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-acb9924 elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-full qodef-elementor-content-grid elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-items-middle\" data-id=\"acb9924\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-725b2a7\" data-id=\"725b2a7\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-82d8fde elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"82d8fde\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! 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For a dedicated and thorough artist, each musical composition represents an entire unexplored universe, complete and unique in every part, so the creative task is always full of surprises, it requires a talent for improvisation and leaves endless space for innovation. Knowing a piece of music in essence means being one with its creator, and that is, in my opinion, the sublime goal every conductor must achieve. Transmitting that knowledge to the orchestra, and then to the audience, is what makes music an art. My experience of music is to learn the scores perfectly and still be able to leave your own mark by investing yourself without changing the original piece.<\/p><p>My constant desire to deal with music, first as a theorist, singer, as a conductor, and more recently as a composer, is the urge to tonally express my thoughts. With music I can discover the country where I was born, my love romances, religion, books that influenced me and those I read today. What I try to achieve when I write or interpret music is the expression of my deepest feelings. If there is love, bitterness, sadness or religiosity in it, these moods become a part of my music. There are so many brilliant pieces I need and must conduct, sing and ACT which I believe is my aim as an artist.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: right;\">Miona Cvijovi\u0107<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-dfe057b elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default qodef-elementor-content-no\" data-id=\"dfe057b\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3176f3a\" data-id=\"3176f3a\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-adbfffb elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default qodef-elementor-content-no\" data-id=\"adbfffb\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-f75a174\" data-id=\"f75a174\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c650dae elementor-widget elementor-widget-cassia_core_section_title\" data-id=\"c650dae\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"cassia_core_section_title.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"qodef-shortcode qodef-m  qodef-section-title qodef-alignment--left \">\n    \t    <h2 class=\"qodef-m-title\" >\n    <span class=\"qodef-m-title-inner\" >\n\t\tBiography\t<\/span>\n    <\/h2>\n\t    <\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-63492ed elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"63492ed\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Miona Cvijovi\u0107 was born in 1989 in Bijelo Polje (Montenegro). She graduated from the music high school\u00a0 &#8220;Stevan Hristic&#8221; in Krusevac, at the department of general music pedagogy. In 2012, she obtained a diploma of Bachelor\u2019s degree at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Nis, on the study program of General Music Pedagogy. She obtained her master&#8217;s degree in 2016 at the Academy of Arts of the University of Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republika Srpska) in the conducting study program, in the class of professor Ognjen Bomestar. In year 2023 she completed her doctoral studies at the University of Arts in Belgrade, in the class of professor Svetozar Rapajic.<\/p><p>During her education and professional work, she performed as a vocal performer in the RTS Symphony Orchestra, the &#8220;Stanislav Binicki&#8221; Artistic Ensemble, the choir of the Ministry of Defense and the Serbian Army, the SMS &#8220;Stevan Hristic&#8221; Mixed Choir in Krusevac, the &#8220;Stanko Dragojevic&#8221; Mixed Society in Podgorica (Montenegro), the Madrigal Choir of the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, the &#8220;St. Vasilije Ostroski&#8221; Church Choir in Belgrade.<\/p><p>She gained experience in conducting and singing by working with ensembles such as the Church Choir &#8220;Saint Prince Lazar&#8221; in Krusevac and the Academic Singing Society in Nis, with whom she performed as a conductor and soloist in numerous performances throughout Serbia and beyond its borders (France, the Czech Republic, Greece, Belarus, Croatia, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Poland, Hungary, Turkey, Macedonia, Austria, Russia, Ukraine).<\/p><p>She participated in many republican, regional and international competitions and festivals and won the following recognitions and awards from several musical disciplines.<\/p><p>Since 2013, Miona Cvijovic composed original music for several plays and musical-stage productions,\u00a0participated in these projects as a conductor, accompanist, musical collaborator, orchestrator and performer.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miona Cvijovi\u0107 Conductor, composer and performer. 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