Nemanja Radulović ( sr-cyrl, Немања Радуловић; born 18 October 1985), is a Serbian violinist.

Life and career

Radulović began studying the violin in 1992. In 1996, he was awarded the October Prize for music of the city of

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, and in the following year, he received the Special Prize from the Serbian Ministry of Education for "Talent 1997". He continued his musical studies in 1998 at the Hochschule für Musik Saar in

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with Joshua Epstein, and in 1999, at the

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, with Dejan Mihailović. At the age of fourteen, he moved to France to study with Patrice Fontanarosa at the

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In 2006, on short notice, he replaced

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in Beethoven's

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with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and

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at the

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. Since then, he has performed as an international soloist with the two chamber ensembles he founded, The Devil's Trills and Double Sens. He performs regularly with the harpist Marielle Nordmann and the pianists Laure Favre-Kahn, Dominique Plancade and Susan Manoff. He is closely associated with the Festival des Nuits Romantiques. Radulović plays on an 1843 violin by

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Awards and honours

* 1996 – October Prize, City of Belgrade * 1997 – "Talent of the Year", Serbian Ministry of Education * 1998 – Fifth Prize, International Violin Competition, "Rodolfo Price Lipizer" * 2001 – Winner of Stradivarius violin competition, Cremona, Italy * 2001 – 1st prize & Winner of George Enescu International Competition, special prize for the interpretation of 3rd Enescu sonata. Bucharest, Romania * 2003 – First Prize, International Joseph Joachim Violin Competition,

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, Germany * 2005 – "International Revelation of the Year", Victoires classical music * 2006 – "Rising Star", 2006/2007 * 2014 – "Soloist instrumental", Victoires classical music * 2017 –

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*2017 – Chevalier des arts et des lettres, French national title

Discography

* 2006 – ''Pièces pour violon seul'' (Transart Live) * 2008 – ''

Mendelssohn Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 18094 November 1847), widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period. Mendelssohn's compositions include symphonie ...

, Concertos pour violon 1 et 2'' (Transart Live) * 2009 – ''Les trilles du diable'' (Decca) * 2010 – ''

Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. He is one of the most revered figures in the history of Western music; his works rank among the most performed of the classical music repertoire ...

, Sonates pour violon et piano 5, 7 et 8, avec Susan Manoff, piano'' (Decca) * 2011 – ''Les cinq saisons (les quatre saisons de Vivaldi et "Spring in Japan", composition originale d'Alexander Sedlar)'' (Decca) * 2013 – ''Après un rêve, avec Marielle Nordmann'' (Transart) * 2013 – ''Paganini Fantasy'' (Deutsche Grammophon) * 2014 – ''Carnets de Voyage'' (Deutsche Grammophon) * 2014 – ''Journey East'' (Deutsche Grammophon) * 2016 – ''Bach'' (Deutsche Grammophon) * 2017 – ''Tchaikovsky: Violin concerto – Rococo Variations'' (Deutsche Grammophon) * 2018 – ''Baïka'' (Deutsche Grammophon) * 2020 – ''Essentials'' (Deutsche Grammophon) * 2022 – ''Roots'' (Catalogue Marketing Classique/Warer Classics) * 2023 – Beethoven, Violin Concerto Op. 61 D Major u. Violin Sonata No. 9 "Kreutzer"

References

External links

Official Website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Radulovic, Nemanja 1985 births Living people Serbian violinists Serbian emigrants to France Conservatoire de Paris alumni 21st-century violinists Recipients of the October Prize of the City of Belgrade