Neda Hofman Sretenović

NEDA HOFMAN-SRETENOVIĆ (Belgrade, 1977) graduated in the class of prof. dr h. c. Arba Valdme at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade (1999). In the same class, she also completed her studies at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne (2002), as a DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst) scholarship holder. She received her master's degree in the class of prof. Rita Kinke at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad (2004). In 2015, she received her doctorate in chamber music in the class of prof. Zorice Ćetković at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, on the subject of Problems of interpretation and technical realization of electroacoustic works.

She performs contemporary music. In 2011, she founded The Construction Site Contemporary Music Ensemble, with which she has held over thirty concerts in the country and abroad (Lithuania, Montenegro, Croatia, Israel) since its inception.

As a soloist and chamber musician, she performed in Germany, France, Italy, Greece, Macedonia, South Africa, Namibia and Botswana.

She performed with the Symphony Orchestra of Radio and Television of Serbia, the Chamber Orchestra Gudachi St. Đorđe, the Belgrade String Orchestra Dušan Skovran, the Camerata Academica String Orchestra, as well as the women's academic choir Collegium musicum. She recorded with the Radio Belgrade Symphony Orchestra, for the production of the Music Information Center, the production of The Construction Site Contemporary Music Ensemble, and for the Musicological Society of Serbia. She is the winner of the "Aleksandar Pavlović" award for the promotion of Serbian music in the country and abroad, awarded by the Association of Composers of Serbia (2017, 2020).

She is employed as a senior artistic associate at the Department of String Instruments at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade.