Milan Sv. Djurdjevic is considered a composer, well-known for his tendencies towards Hollywood style composing. He was first fascinated by music in early childhood and has been mostly inspired by the music written for Star Wars and therefore created a vision, to be is to compose. Born in 1977 in Belgrade, Serbia, where he made his first steps in music, by learning to play violin, trombone and piano, Milan pursued his dream towards a career in film composing. He graduated composition at Faculty of Music Arts, Department of Composition & Orchestration at Belgrade University, Serbia, where he also gained his MA degree in Music Composition and Orchestration. While still at the faculty, Milan caught the attention of several directors from Spain (Horacio Alcala "Le Fil" 2007 short film, Enrique Ruiz documentary "Grissi Siknis" 2008). Since then, he scored numerous shorts and documentaries (documentary "Kosma" 2013 by Sonja Blagojevic, "Jet Set" 2011 first animated series in Serbia by Nenad Mitic, documentary road movie "Milan Tarot" 2010, by Ivan Ikic). He also scored music for Volkswagen Golf Commercial in 2007, original music for website of Dragan Malesevic Tapi, one of Serbian most famous hyper-realism style painters, European Commission's social responsible short movies (European Cooperation Day 2013). Sensing that formal music education does not offer enough practice to students interested in composing, Milan spent two years teaching Composing & Orchestration, as well as other related subjects at two musical high schools in Belgrade - "Stankovic" and "Mokranjac"(2009-2010). Teacher's position gave him a new insight and priceless educational and social experience in communicating with young people. Before moving to UAE, he worked as a music editor at Cultural Centre "Students' City". This position offered him various professional challenges and opportunity to gain valuable experience in culture events management. He was committed to constantly building connections with young people and organized more than 300 musical events during his three year experience in the Cultural Centre for the population of 4,000 university students. Organizing performances of Serbian and foreign music bands, monthly programs, liaising with clients, planning budget, briefing papers, reports and presentations, organizing workshops and lectures were part of his everyday work, which resulted in music program being most attended at the Cultural Centre "Students' City". Nevertheless, Milan is actively pursuing his career as film composer. His most recent work is scoring original soundtrack for Mladen Mitrovic's movie "Chasing a Dream" (joint co-production of Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia and Council of Europe). Documentary is listed by the Council of Europe as one of the Millennium projects and the premiere is expected in 2015.
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