Stevo Teodosievski ( mk, Стево Теодосиевски, ; 16 April 1924 – 9 April 1997) was a Macedonian artist, music educator and humanist. After a childhood in his hometown, he spent his youth in Belgrade, returning to

Kočani Kočani ( mk, Кочани ) is a town in the eastern part of North Macedonia, situated around east from Skopje. It has a population of 28,330 and is the seat of the Kočani Municipality. Geography and population The town spreads across the Nor ...

after

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. Stevo Teodosievski died in

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on 9 April 1997.Dimitrijevski, Aleksandar. "Esma Redjepova and Stevo Teodosievski - Building Unique Idiom at the Crossroad of Roma and other Balkan Music Cultures" pp4,5.

/ref> In the 1950s he was a truck driver while pursuing professional photography in Skopje, where he began to make money as a musician. Playing accordion at restaurants and private parties, Teodosievski engaged in private music lessons for solfeggio and music theory. Teodosievski later worked at co-repetition program of

Radio Skopje Macedonian Radio Television (MRT; mk, Македонска радио-телевизија (МРТ), Makedonska radio-televizija (MRT)), officially National Radio-Television ( mk, Национална Радиотелевизија, Nacionalna ...

. In 1954 he met

Esma Redžepova Esma Redžepova-Teodosievska ( mk, Есма Реџепова-Теодосиевска, ; 8 August 1943 – 11 December 2016) was a Macedonian Romani vocalist, songwriter and humanitarian. Because of her prolific repertoire, which included hund ...

who would later become his life companion. In the period from 1960 to 1989, Teodosievski and Redžepova lived and worked in Belgrade, and then they returned to Skopje. 47 children were brought up and educated in the traditional spirit in his music school. Ansambl Teodosievski has held more than 20,000 concerts, of which around 2,000 humanitarian, has issued 108 single plates, 20 Long - play records, 32 audio cassettes, 15 CDs, 6 video cassettes and recorded 12 shows by 30 minutes at MRTV. Winner of many awards and honors: * October award of

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* Silver and gold medal from the

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, Josip Broz Tito * Silver medal from the

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* Gold medal for humanist in

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* Gold medal the

of Yugoslavia * Award of

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Yugoslavia * Award for lifetime achievement in Serbia and Montenegro * Gold medal, "December 22nd - Yugoslavia" * in 1992. Award of the city of Skopje "November 13th" in the field of culture and art.

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