Equally at home as a violinist and violist, Serbian Milena Simović is enjoying an illustrious
international career of concerto, recital and chamber music performances.
Acclaimed for her work in Europe, Asia and America, Milena appears as a soloist in Russia,
China, Italy, United Kingdom, Norway, France, Portugal, and through the countries of former
Yugoslavia, performing alongside some of the most established personalities of today’s
music scene.
Milena’s chamber music partners include Ivry Gitlis, Vadim Repin, Leonidas Kavakos,
Antonio Meneses, Yuja Wang, Denis Kozhukhin, Vadim Kholodenko, Konstantin Lifschitz,
Beatrice Rana, Boris Andrianov, Itamar Golan, Julian Rachlin, Roman Simovic, Gordan
Nikolitch, Tim Hugh and many others.
Milena’s concerts have been broadcasted live on BBC Radio 3, Medici TV, Rai Uno in Italy,
Arte etc. and her performances praised as “…exceptionally delivered performance, charged
with brilliant combination of operatic quality, which was jaw-dropping at times”, “seductive
and exciting…with rare artistic sensibility” in the press.
Milena holds a professorship at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in
London and is a resident viola and a chamber music coach at the Culture Festival in
Sardinian town of Santulussurgiu, taking place in August every year, which enjoys versatility
of students from all continents.
Milena Simović received Bachelor and Masters of Music in violin from the Belgrade
University of Arts and Music, and Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.
After this Milena continued her further studies with viola and has completed another Masters
degree at the Zurich University of Arts under Lawrence Power.
Milena Simović plays a Giovanni Battista Rogeri violin ca. 1680, and Paolo Antonio Testore
viola from 1740.