Neda Hofman-Sretenović
PIANIST
About Neda Hofman-Sretenović
NEDA HOFMAN-SRETENOVIĆ (Belgrade, 1977) studied piano with Prof. Arbo Valdma, DHC, at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, where she graduated in 1999, and at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne, where she graduated in 2002 as a DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) fellow. She earned her master’s degree in 2004 at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, under Prof. Rita Kinka. In 2015, she completed a degree in chamber music at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, where she was supervised by Prof. Zorica Ćetković; the title of her thesis was Problemi interpretacije i tehničke realizacije elektroakustičkih dela [Issues in the Interpretation and Technical Rendering of Electro-acoustic Works].
Hofman-Sretenović focuses on contemporary music performance. In 2011, she founded the Construction Site Contemporary Music Ensemble, with whom she has performed in over 30 concerts in Serbia and abroad (Lithuania, Montenegro, Croatia, Israel). In 2017, Hofman-Sretenović and the Construction Site Ensemble initiated the founding of ReConstruction, a new festival of contemporary music.
As a soloist and chamber musician, she has performed in Germany, France, Italy, Greece, North Macedonia, South Africa, Namibia, and Botswana.
Hofman-Sretenović has been a regular contributor at Belgrade’s International Review of Composers festival. She has premiered newly composed pieces of a number of major contemporary composers as well as representatives of the youngest composers’ generation. Also, she has performed at the festivals Kompozitori u prvom licu [Composers in First Person Singular], Belgrade, 2004), KOMA, and Lasciar vibrare.
She has performed with the Symphony Orchestra of the Serbian Broadcasting Corporation, St. George Strings chamber orchestra, Dušan Skovran String Orchestra, Camerata Аcademica string orchestra, as well as Collegium Musicum women’s academic choir. She has participated in recordings with Radio Belgrade Symphony Orchestra, as well as in recordings made for the CD production of the Music Information Centre, the Construction Site Ensemble’s production, and the production of the Serbian Musicological Society. She has won the “Aleksandar Pavlović” award for the promotion of Serbian music in the country and abroad by the Composers’ Association of Serbia (2017, 2020).
Hofman-Sretenović teaches as a senior arts fellow at the String Instruments Department of the Faculty of Music in Belgrade.