Vasil Hadžimanov, the famous pianist and composer, will join Stefan Milenković and Novi Sad chamber orchestra ‘Camerata Academica’ in a spectacular concert within Doček 7529.

The great name of jazz will join Milenković in performing the songs ‘Preko brda, preko brega’ and ‘The Christmas Song’, while the audience will have an opportunity to see the whole concert both online on the visitns.rs platform and on the Second programme of Radio Television of Serbia, on 13 January, at 8 p.m.

With this concert, the first City Concert Hall as well as the doors of the Academy of Arts will be open to the future lecturers Milenković and Hadžimanov. The fact that these two virtuosos will come to the city of culture represents a unique event within the preparations of Novi Sad for the European Capital of Culture title.

Combined with the Camerata Academica orchestra, Vasil Hadžimanov and Stefan Milenković will make 13 January magical and unique by combining different musical styles, talent and passion.

The unique Doček in Novi Sad that connects two New Year Eves, two calendars and two time calculations, 31 December and 13 January, will be held in an online format for the first time ever, presenting new spaces for culture, such as Fabrika, Skladište and Biro in Veliki Liman, the future Čeličana, the network of cultural stations and the first City Concert Hall.

On New Year’s Eve, 31 December, Novi Sad, the future European Capital of Culture, presented the opera spectacle ‘Rigoletto’ to the audience around the world. The opera was broadcast via the visitns.rs platform. In addition to Milenković, Hadžimanov and the chamber orchestra ‘Camerata Academica’, Električni Orgazam, Buč Kesidi, the ‘Džezva & Džezvica’ band, a young violinist Lana Zorjan, Novi Sad Brass Quintet, as well as the sopran Vitkay-Kucsera Ágota with the pianist Jelena Simonović Kovačević will perform on 13 January as well. Filip Arsenijević, the Serbian rapper, will join them with the performance of his innovative group ‘Surreal & Beyond’, as well as the ‘Sveti Stefan Dečanski’ choir with the ‘Orfelin’ string orchestra, while the youngest ones will have an opportunity to enjoy the opera for children by the ‘Visoko C’ Association of Artists.

Photo: Filip Milenković, Milan Josipović