About

Maestro Bojan Suđić, described as “the leading conductor in Serbian music” (Sonja Marinković, Belgrade), is a full professor of conducting at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade.

In his distinguished career spanning two decades, he has held positions as Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the RTS Symphony Orchestra and Choir, and Executive Director of the RTS Music Production. Prior to this, he was Chief Conductor and General Music Director of the Opera of the National Theatre in Belgrade, Resident Conductor of the Royal Opera in Stockholm, Principal Guest Conductor of the UNIMI Orchestra in Milan, and a Permanent Guest Conductor of the Belgrade Philharmonic. For 18 years, he led the Symphony Orchestra of the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, an ensemble that has significantly contributed to the cultural life of the city through its regular performances. Since 2022, he has been the founder and conductor of the Virtuosi Festival Orchestra and Choir, which has received significant acclaim from the professional community and has made numerous highly noted performances in Serbia and the region.

Since his victory at the Yugoslav Competition of Young Artists in Zagreb (later known as the Lovro von Matačić Competition) in 1989, Maestro Bojan Suđić’s professional career has expanded across Europe and Latin America, where he has collaborated with numerous prestigious orchestras and choirs. He has worked with ensembles such as the Helsinki Philharmonic (Finland), Novosibirsk Philharmonic (Russia), Slovenian and Macedonian Philharmonics, the Belgrade and Vojvodina Philharmonics, the Montenegrin Symphony Orchestra, and the symphony orchestras of Odense (Denmark), Västerås (Sweden), Turku (Finland), Klagenfurt (Austria), and Altenburg (Germany). He has also conducted RTV orchestras from Ljubljana (Slovenia), Zagreb (Croatia), Sofia (Bulgaria), Budapest (Hungary), Porto Alegre (Brazil), Santiago de Chile, the OFUNAM ensemble from Mexico, and opera houses in Helsinki (Finland), Plovdiv (Bulgaria), and Nizhny Novgorod (Russia), as well as the Opera of the Serbian National Theatre in Novi Sad, the Croatian Radiotelevision Choir, and many other ensembles.

He has collaborated with some of the world’s most prominent artists, including Maxim Vengerov, Vadim Repin, Nigel Kennedy, Ivo Pogorelić, Denis Matsuev, Boris Berezovsky, Nikolai Lugansky, Michel Beroff, Shlomo Mintz, Emmanuel Pahud, Plácido Domingo, Angela Gheorghiu, Thomas Hampson, Bryn Terfel, as well as with all notable Serbian musicians.

Maestro Suđić has built his professional career on an exceptionally broad repertoire of symphonic, choral, opera, and ballet music. He was the first in Serbian music to realize complete performances and recordings of masterpieces from the Serbian musical tradition, such as The Legend of Ohrid by Stevan Hristić, and the sacred works of Kornelije Stanković, Stevan Mokranjac, Marko Tajčević, and many others. Performing compositions like Mahler’s Symphony No. 8, Berlioz’s and Verdi’s Requiem, and Orff’s Carmina Burana, he has conducted ensembles of over 500 musicians on stage. He has performed in front of audiences of several thousand people, promoting artistic music and making it more accessible to a wider public.

Maestro Suđić is particularly dedicated to the promotion of contemporary music. He has conducted the premieres of numerous works by both domestic and international composers, many of which were dedicated to him. He is especially committed to promoting young talented musicians, giving them a prominent role in special concert cycles.

Since 2018, Maestro Bojan Suđić has served as the Artistic Director of BEMUS, Serbia’s most prestigious festival of artistic music, and he has also acted as an artistic selector for music festivals in Budva and Bar (Montenegro).

Local critics praise Suđić’s perfectionism and originality of interpretation (Sonja Marinković, Belgrade), while a Finnish critic noted: “He is a natural talent with exceptional style and one of the finest techniques I have ever seen” (Mats Liljeros, Huvudstadsbladet, Helsinki).