Marko Savić (pianist)

Marko Savić
Professor Marko Savić (1941-2013)
Background information
Birth name	Marko Savić
Born	(1941-04-26) April 26, 1941 Prizren, Yugoslavia-Serbia
Genres	Classical
Occupation(s)	Soloist, Teacher
Instrument	Piano

Marko Savić (Serbian Cyrillic: Марко Савић) (born 26 April 1941 in Prizren, Yugoslavia - died February 8, 2013, in Belgrade, Serbia) was a Serbian pianist and university professor.

Education

Marko Savić graduated from the Belgrade Music Academy in 1965 (Music Theory) and 1969 (Piano). He completed his postgraduate studies in Piano Performance at the Faculty of Music in Skopje (1986). His major teachers were Marko Tajčević (Music Theory), Jelica Popović and Branko Cvetković (Piano Performance).

Performance career

Marko Savić performed in numerous recitals, chamber music concerts and concerts as a soloist with orchestras throughout Yugoslavia (Belgrade, Skopje, Pristina, Prizren, Đakovica, Opatija, Rovinj, etc.).

Teaching career

Savić has been esteemed as a piano pedagogue. His students won top prizes at various competitions in Paris, Geneva, Città di Ostuni, Stresa, Belgrade, Ljubljana, Valjevo, Niš, Skopje, Dubrovnik, Novi Sad, Šabac, etc.

He has been a jury member at piano competitions held in Belgrade, Pristina, Niš, Vranje, Trstenik and Lazarevac.

He received numerous awards for his pedagogical work, including a 1974 award of the Association of Music and Ballet Pedagogues of Serbia and a 1999 award of the European Piano Teachers Association.

Savić was Full Professor of Piano at the University of Pristina Faculty of Arts, where taught since 1975. He also taught at the Josip Slavenski School of Music in Prizren and the College of Pedagogy in Pristina.

References

• Pedeset godina Fakulteta muzičke umetnosti (Muzičke akademije) 1937-1987, Univerzitet umetnosti u Beogradu, Beograd, 1988.
• List of full professors at the University of Priština, Retrieved on 6 June 2010.
• List of academic staff at the University of Priština Faculty of Arts, Retrieved on 10 October 2008.
• Todorović, Nebojša. Professor Marko Savić's pedagogical contribution to the development of pianism in Kosovo and Metohija, in: Cicović Sarajlić, Dragana and Jelena Pavličić (eds.). Traditional and Contemporary in Art and Education - Book of Abstracts. Kosovska Mitrovica: Faculty of Arts in Priština, 2016, ISBN 978-86-83113-12-5, pp. 168-169.