[Текст на српском] Piano City Promo Weekend Saturday, February 24^th, as an overture in expectation of the new instance of Piano City Festival, hosted a piano concert of a young and extremely talented composer and pianist Veljko Nenadić.

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Just stepping out of his teenage years, this young man already has an impressive list of International Awards:

Golden Key Piano Composition Competition USA: Winner 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, second in 2016, third in 2015
Moscow international festival of Slavic music: Winner 2015, second 2016
Piano Composition Competition Fidelio, Espana: Winner 2013, finalist 2016, semifinalist 2017, finalist and semifinalist 2018 (and still waiting results)

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Checking the Piano before the performance.

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For this evening he prepared a program of original compositions:

Contrast (Second: Moscow 2016, Golden Key USA 2016)
Melancholic Night (Winner: Moscow 2015, Golden Key USA 2017)
Closing Miniatures (Third, Golden Key USA 2015)
Train (Premiere)
Piano Suite (Premiere)
Nocturno (Finalist: Fidelio 2018)
Toccata (Semifinalist: Fidelio 2018)

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Impressive stuff for a young man who just last year became a freshman at the Musical Academy in Belgrade, in the class of professor Isidora Žebeljan.

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Veljko was born and raised in Smederevo, Serbia. He attended Music School “Kosta Manojlović”, and became a part of the best generation that school have ever gave.

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Before the Academy, he already had published an audio CD with his schoolmates under the name “Sounds of the Balkans”. Most interesting combination of Piano and Flute.