Jelena Jovović 2024/2025
(born in Kotor in 1998) began her musical education at the Vida Matjan Music School in Kotor under Milena Rajković. She completed her studies with Vujadin Krivokapić at the Music Academy in Cetinje, after which she continued at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, where she earned her undergraduate degree under Ida Bieler and later a master’s in violin performance in the class of Dominika Falger. Additionally, she completed a master’s in chamber music with Aleksander Pavlovsky and is currently specializing in baroque violin. She has performed as a soloist, chamber, and orchestral musician at significant festivals in Montenegro and abroad, collaborating with the Montenegrin Symphony Orchestra and internationalensembles. Since 2017, she has been a member, now concertmaster, of the KotorArt Festival Orchestra. Jelena was also a young ambassador of the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation (Brussels) and the Western Balkans Youth Orchestra concertmaster. Recognized as an outstanding student, she received awards as the best student of the University of Montenegro, Old Royal Capital Cetinje, and in the arts field at the university level. In 2023, the University of Graz honored her for humanitarian work at LKH Hospital, where she performed personalized compositions with her trio for leukemia patients.