Vladimir Drobnjak

  Vladimir Drobnjak studied at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, where he graduated with the highest grades in the class of Professor Sandra Belić. He further refined his skills at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad under Professor Imre Kalman, as well as through numerous masterclasses with renowned pedagogues such as Stanislav Apolin, Ksenija Janković, David Grigoryan, Denis Shapovalov, and Umberto Clerici.

He has given solo recitals in Belgrade, Pančevo, Podgorica, Kotor, Bar, and Cetinje. As a soloist, he has performed with the Chamber Orchestra of the Montenegrin Music Center and the Symphony Orchestra of RTCG.

He is highly active as a chamber musician, performing in numerous concerts with vast repertoire and respectable musicians.

As a founding member of the piano trio “Luminis”, he has performed at the Hanover festival, concerts in Berlin, Hamburg, and Frankfurt, as well as numerous concerts and festivals in Montenegro.

From 2006 to 2009, he was the cellist of the opera orchestra of the National Theatre in Belgrade, performing in Greece, Cyprus, and Italy.

He served as the principal cellist of the KotorArt festival orchestra, as well as of the youth orchestra organized by the Swedish Royal Academy from Stockholm, with concerts held in both Sweden and Montenegro. As a section leader, he also performed with the Operosa festival opera orchestra and has collaborated with the Montenegrin Youth Orchestra. Since 2008, he has been a member of the Montenegrin Symphony Orchestra, with whom he has performed in Montenegro, Italy, France, Russia, and former Yugoslav republics. He is also a regular guest musician with the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra.

Since 2010, he has been a regular member of the orchestra of one of Austria’s most prominent music festivals – Tiroler Festspiele Erl, where he has performed an extensive opera and symphonic repertoire, including the complete operatic works of Richard Wagner. At this festival, he has collaborated with conductors such as Gustav Kuhn, Paolo Carignani, Erik Nielsen, Roland Boer, Patrick Hahn, Sesto Quatrini, Michael Guettler, Lothar Zagrosek, Asher Fisch and many others. During the orchestra's 2015 tour of Beijing and Shanghai, performed the Chinese premiere of Wagner’s tetralogy “The Ring of the Nibelung”.

As a cellist with the Philharmonie der Nationen, under the direction of the celebrated pianist and conductor Justus Frantz, he has performed at festivals such as the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, MDR Musiksommer, and Rheingau Musik Festival.

He has gained extensive teaching experience both as a chamber music teacher and a cello teacher at the “Vasa Pavić” Music college in Montenegro.

Cello technique, cello repertoire, orchestra excerpts.