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PREMiL PETROVIC! graduated from the Faculty of Music in Belgrade (Department of Music Theory), and afterwards studied conducting with professor Winfried Müller at the Hans Eisler Hochschule für Musik in Berlin. He graduated in 2005. He has been awarded the prestigious Heinrich Bell scholarship as well as the scholarship Musik Theater Heute of the Akademie der Deutschen Bank, which enabled him to attend interpretation courses held by the lêading conductors of today. With a group of friends Premil started in 1996 a music theater in the Cinema Rex independent production (Radio 892). They produced (with Petrovic conducting) Mozart's Singspiel Bastien und Bastienne performed at the City Theater Budva Festival and Bitef, Manuel de Falla's El Retablo de Maese Pedro at the Belgrade Music Festival (1997), Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire at the international Review of Copmposers (Belgrade, 1998) as well as L'Histoire du Soldat by Stravinskyin 2000. At the Belgrade Music Festival 2001, Petrovic conducted Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde in Schönberg's orchestration, with the Festival Ensemble. In 2002 he made his German debut as a conductor with the Berliner Symphoniker, with which he subsequently appeared on several occasions. He conducted the première of Anja Dordevic's opera Narcissus and Echo at the Belgrade Music Festival 2002. He opened the same festival in 2004 with the Belgrade première of the opera Zora D. by Isidora Zebeljan. Premil Petrovic is also a regular guest of the Belgrade International Cello Fest, appearing with St. George Strings and the world's leading cellists. In 2005 he conducted for the first time the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra. This season he conducted Anja Djordjevic's scene cantata Atlas in the production ofYugoconcert. From August 2006 he works as corepetitor and conductor in Nordhausen Opera, Germany.

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