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Dubravka Jovicic was born in 1956 in Belgrade, where she graduated Piano Studies and got Master degree at the Faculty of Music Art. She had an advanced study in Paris (Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique), Salzburg (Mozarteum Akademie) and London in Master Class of famous pedagogues such as Pierre Sancan, Renzo Silvestri and Kendall Taylor. As a person of an outstanding searching curiosity and energy, with a great knowledge of an complementary arts and literature in 1991 Dubravka Jovicic got a PhD. Degree in literature at the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade.

Dubravka Jovicic gained high recognition and prizes for exceptional results at numerous international competitions as well as from University of Arts and City of Belgrade as follows:

  • The First prize and Gold medal at the International festival in Bordeaux (1980),
  • The First prize of the XV Yugoslav Competition of Musical Artists in Zagreb (1981),
  • The Honorary Medallion and Diploma at IX Interpodium in Bratislava (1978),
  • The Reward at International Piano festival "Jardin de musique" in Paris (1979),
  • The October Prize of City of Belgrade (1975),
  • The Silver Medallion of the University of Arts in Belgrade (1997.)

Extremely rich art work of Dubravka Jovicic includes several hundreds of solo recitals, concerts with orchestras, radio and TV shows in numerous towns of the former and present Yugoslavia. She also participated at the international festivals in Budapest and Szolnok in Hungary, Craiova in Romania, Bordeaux, and Paris in France, Bratislava and Komarno in Slovakia, Ohrid in Macedonia, Dubrovnik and Zagreb in Croatia, Sarajevo in Bosnia, Budva, Belgrade, Nis, Kotor, and many other cities in Yugoslavia. She has performed in France, Hungary ( notably in Ferenz Liszt Zeneakademia in Budapest), Czech Republic, Republic of Slovakia, Austria, Germany, some countries of former Soviet Union (Minsk, Odessa, Gomel, Krasnodar, etc.), England and Romania, with orchestras such as the Brno State Symphony Orchestra, the Belgrade Philharmonic, the Zagreb Philharmonic, the Dubrovnik Festival Orchestra, the Radio Belgrade and Radio Sarajevo Symphony Orchestras, the Belgrade Strings "Dusan Skovran", the Serbian Chamber Orchestra, etc. under conductors including Jaroslav Opela, Perti Pekannen, Anton Kolar, Petr Altrichter, Alexander Apolin, Anatolij Novicki, Jurij Aliev, George Trautwein, Mladen Jagust, Dusan Miladinovic, Stanko Sepic, and many others. Recording of International Festival concert in Budapest (1980) was broadcasted at the NHK network in Japan in a series of the most popular musical achievements of all international festivals, suggested by the Hungarian Radio.

"DUBRAVKA JOVICIC has been known and recognized for years already in our milieu as one of the best interpreters of national as well as foreign modern music, which she does not play out of courtesy and duty or need to flirt with the current fashion, but always chooses valuable pieces and revealing to us either the authors we were unaware of or works we had no opportunity to listen to", wrote dr Branka Radovic in "Politika" about recital Dubravka Jovicic held in Belgrade on the January 26, 1998. Many pieces from the pianistic literature experienced their premiere at the concerts of Dubravka Jovicic. Special TV production has been made in 1997 about her devotion to the new repertoire and the passion for discovering and bringing to life the new piano compositions. Some very beautiful music pages by the famous yugoslav composers are dedicated to Dubravka Jovicic, notably the Piano Concerto by Jugoslav Bosnjak, and "Diptych" for Piano and Strings by Aleksandar Obradovic.

Dubravka Jovicic recorded LP (1988) and a material for a few CD-s (in 1997,1999, 2000 and 2001) for PGP RTS and "Komuna".

In past few years only for Radio Belgrade phono-archives (Fonoarhiv Radio Beograda) she recorded over 17 music hours of the most famous composers as well as the Yugoslav musical inheritance. She made recordings for many Radio and TV station like Radio Zagreb, Sarajevo, Skopje, Nis, Bratislava, Brno, Budapest, Craiova, Disseldorf, Salzburg, Leeds, Manchester, Kechcemet, etc.

Apart from her concert activities, Dubravka Jovicic is a full time professor of Piano at the Faculty of Music Art in Belgrade. Till now ver 30 students from Yugoslavia and some foreign countries (Russia, Greece, etc.) graduated from her class both on graduate and postgraduate studies and all of them are teaching as professors of Piano in Music Schools and Academies in Yugoslavia as well as abroad (London, Stuttgart, Chicago, Johanesburg, Surgut in Russia, Athens, etc.). She was the Head of the Piano Department, the Vice-Dean and the President of the Council of the Faculty of Music Art.

Dubravka Jovicic was the member of the jury for the piano on the International Jeunesse Musical Competition in Belgade interrupted by bombardment of Yugoslavia in 1999, for which she was the co-author of the requested competition programme , than on the International Piano Competition "Petar Konjovic" (2000), and National Contests in Belgrade, Nis, Novi Pazar, Novi Sad, etc. She was also the President of the Jeunesse Musicale of Belgrade as well as the Vice-President of EPTA Yugoslavia for several years. For all those unselfish and very rich pedagogical and social activities Dubravka Jovicic received two Honorary Cetificates of the Faculty of Music Art, the EPTA Honorary Cetificate and the Commemorative Certificate of the Jeunesse Musicale of Yugoslavia.