Milan Mihajlović

[citation needed] Mihajlović graduated in composition (Stanojlo Rajičić, 1970), and conducting (Živojin Zdravković, 1969) at the Belgrade Music Academy where he also acquired his M.A.

There, the allusive tone-painting of nocturnal ambients was boldly combined with semi-hidden citations, in functional use of the avantgarde and classical composing techniques rooted in the Scriabine mode verticals.

[citation needed] Scriabine’s mode remained the constant of Mihajlovic’s expression, as the basis for the inventive harmony that specifically "colours" his music, and so did the reduction to small thematic cores from which "arise" its main motives and the linear movement as a whole, frequently with ostinatos and pedals.

[citation needed] The piece Silenzio for female choir and chamber ensemble (1996) was written to the lyrics by Torquato Tasso and quotes a fragment from the Monteverdi’s madrigal Chiome d’oro (awarded First Prize at the International Review of Composers, 1997).

[citation needed] Since 2000, Mihajlović has developed the communication within his own music, which is evident in his piece Return (Povratak, 2002) for cello and orchestra, in which he summarized and tested the effects and comprehensiveness of his own style in the status of a quotation (awarded the City of Belgrade Prize, 2003).