Biography - Begić Miran

Miran Begić (1975) was born in Podgorica where he finished his elementary and high school music education under the guidance of the professor Villie Ferdinandi. He was only 13 years old when he has had his debut as a soloist with symphony orchestra playing Mendelssohn’s e-minor concert. He enrolled at the Music Academy in Podgorica where his menthor was professor Miroslav Rusin and graduated from the Academy under the guidance of mentor prof. Uroš Pešić at Cetinje.

He got his master degree in violin and specialized in chamber music at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad and Faculty of Music in Belgrade. He attended master classes with professors Pavel Vernikov and Eric Ginzberg. He won several first awards at national competitons and he has won a first prize on international contest „Petar Konjović“ in  Belgrade.

His performing acitivity is related to numerous podiums of Italy, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Austria, France, England, Lebanon, Bulgaria, Sweden, USA and Russia.  He performed with musicians such as Niklas Schmidt, Alexander Bonduriansky. Wifried Strehle, Guigla Katsarava, Peter Langgartner, Jaroslav Nadrzicky, Viktor Uzur, Mikhail Bereznitsky, Ljubiša Jovanović, Herbert Keffer, Barbara Hendrix, Sergey Smbatyan, Jean Reis, Darinka Matić Marović, Alexandar Rudin and Victor Tretyakov.

He has played as soloist with Montenegrin Symphony Orchestra and many international student orchestras. From 2001 he has played over 150 resitals in duo with pianist Bojan Martinović with whom he also plays in piano trio „TRITONUS“. He recorded music for Montenegrin National Television, Serbian National Television and Radio television of Greece.   

Since May 2011 he holds master classes at the Moscow State Conservatory P. I. Tchaikovsky for the students of violin. In October 2014 he has been awarded with title of Honorary Professor at State Music Institute Ipolitov-Ivanov.

From 2010 until 2016 he has held the position of Dean of the Music Academy in Cetinje where he is professor of violin, chamber music and orchestra.  He is a founder and director of Summer academy and festival „Espressivo“.