A great man is one who collects knowledge the way a bee collects honey and uses it to help people overcome the difficulties they endure - hunger, ignorance and disease!
- Nikola Tesla

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
- Franklin Roosevelt

While their territory has been devastated and their homes despoiled, the spirit of the Serbian people has not been broken.
- Woodrow Wilson

Vladimir Milošević - umetnik u usponu

Pijanista Vladimir Milošević, docent Fakulteta muzičke umetnosti u Beogradu, izabran je za "umetnika u usponu" na nedavnom konkursu američke Asocijacije njujorških koncertnih umetnika, koja se bavi promocijom i lansiranjem mladih umetnika u svetu. Na konkursu su učestvovali muzičari iz celog sveta, a Asocijacija je Miloševića proglasila najboljim.

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- Kao pobednik, dobio sam mogućnost da nastupim sa Simfonijskim orkestrom Njujorških koncertnih umetnika u sezoni 2013/2014. Koncert će najverovatnije biti u maju sledeće godine. Krajem leta će se znati i tačan repertoar - kaže za "Novosti" Vladimir Milošević. - Nastup u Karnegi holu pre nekoliko godina bio je ostvarenje jednog velikog sna, a ovim koncertom ostvariće mi se još jedan.

Srpskog pijanistu 18. aprila očekuje i nastup u Marinskom teatru, u Sankt Peterburgu. U dvorani "ruskog Karnegi hola" Milošević će nastupiti sa čelistom Draganom Đorđevićem, a izvešće celovečernji resital.

U svetu je mnogo vrhunskih pijanista i teško je izboriti se za svoje mesto. Naš sagovornik, međutim, smatra da je konkurencija uvek dobrodošla.

- To me inspiriše da još više radim na sebi, da budem u dobroj formi. Za muzičara je veoma važno da ima kvalitetnu konkurenciju. Osim toga, stalno učim nova dela, i tako izgrađujem i usavršavam sebe.

Osim nespornog talenta, da bi se uspelo na međunarodnoj sceni, smatra Milošević, potrebno je "mnogo rada i sreće". Ako imate kvalitet i talenat, kaže, nije presudno iz koje zemlje dolazite. Mada više ne odlazi na takmičenja, i dalje pamti kako je teško obezbediti novac za putovanja i nastupe širom sveta.

- Muzičari nemaju nikakvu pomoć države, moraju da se snalaze kako znaju. Nekad imaju sreće da im organizator takmičenja pokrije troškove, u protivnom, umetnici u usponu moraju da se oslone na roditelje ili potraže pomoć sponzora. Država malo ulaže u umetnost i negovanje kulture uopšte - kaže naš sagovornik.

Za razliku od Srbije, Nemačka i Francuska imaju veliko poštovanje prema klasičnoj muzici i umetnicima.

- Tamo je mnogo veća konkurencija i teže je izboriti se za svoje mesto, ali, s druge strane, i u najmanjim mestima postoje koncertne sale. Svira se u crkvama, u raznim kulturnim društvima, što muzičarima omogućava da imaju redovne nastupe - kaže srpski pijanista.

NOVOSTI 13. 3. 2013.

 


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