Dragomir Bratic
Dragomir Bratić graduated from the Piano department with prof. Ninoslav Zivkovic and master’s degree in chamber music – piano duo in the class of prof. Zorica Cetkovic at the Faculty of Music Art in Belgrade – FMU. In addition, he attended master classes with professors Arbo Valdma, Igor Lazko, Pavel Nersesian and Natalia Trull. He is currently teaching at the Davorin Jenko School of Music in Belgrade.
Since 2005, he has been a member of the Association of Music Artists of Serbia. In the period between 2011 and 2020, he was the director of the Republic Competition of Music and Ballet Schools of Serbia, and since 2015, Professor Bratić has been the president of the Belgrade Piano Section.
He is active as a lecturer at seminars in many European countries: Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Croatia, Italy, Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Great Britain and Russia.
Due to the originality of his approach in working with children, he is one of the most talented piano pedagogues. He has won numerous awards for his teaching work in Serbia and abroad. He is the author of many lessons that emphasize an individual approach to solving music performance problems. His students played in all prestigious halls around Serbia as well as in the most famous concert halls abroad: Carnegie Hall in New York, Muzikverein in Vienna, Hamburg, Dresden, Tbilisi, Prague, Bologna, Stockholm, Moscow and elsewhere…
Students of Prof. Bratić received over 800 first and special prizes at domestic and foreign competitions in Slovenia, Italy, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Sweden, France, Georgia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Austria, Germany, Russia and in America.
He is often a member of juries, namely at almost all domestic competitions, as well as at numerous competitions in Slovenia, Italy, France, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Georgia, Austria, Kazakhstan, Czech Republic, Germany, Russia, Poland and Hungary.
He gives a lot of concerts in a piano duo with Katarina Krpan. He won first prizes at competitions in Vienna, Budapest and Moscow with his BG piano duo.
He is an official collaborator – piano accompanist of the Kolibri children’s choir of Radio Television of Serbia.
At the invitation of the Ministry of Education and the Institute for Education (improving education and upbringing), he participated in the development of new piano curricula for primary and secondary music schools. He is the author of the textbook Music culture for the first grade of primary school, published by BIGZ.
Since 2018, he has been a member of the sectoral department for music art at the National agency for qualifications.
The publishing house KLET included him in the list of “1000 most successful Serbian creators in the field of pre-university education”.