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The first international camp for tamburitza players

“Mostovi prijateljstva” (“Bridges of friendship”) Ravno Selo 2018 The World Tamburitza Association (WTA) in cooperation with Galium – the association for culture, education and tamburitza music – organized the first camp for tamburitza players in Ravno Selo on March 18, 2018. WTA’s cultural mission, as well as the goals of this project, were to connect young tamburitza players and educate them so that they can achieve the highest quality of vocal and instrumental tamburitza music interpretation,...

ON THE REQUEST OF THE AUDIENCE, “TAMBURICA FEST 2016” WILL EXPAND TO FIVE DAYS, FROM 21st TO 25th JUNE

AN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL ON INTERNATIONAL MUSIC DAY INSTEAD of three festival days, as was originally planned, "Tamburica Fest 2016", the international ninth festival of the tamburitza tradition keepers, due to the great interest of the audience, will run for five days, from 21st to 25th June and will be held in the centre of Novi Sad and the Petrovaradin Fortress. This was confirmed by Jovan Pejčić, PhD, the Festival Director, who emphasized that "Tamburica Fest 2016"...

CONGRESS OF WORLD TAMBURITZA ASSOCIATION AND SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE WITHIN THIS YEAR’S “TAMBURICA FEST 2015“

Within this year’s eighth anniversary of the World tamburitza festival "Tamburica Fest 2015", the second Congress of the World Association of Tamburitza will be held and it will be attended by delegates from the Assembly of that planetary body of tamburitza musicianship. It is known that the headquarters of the World Association of Tamburitza is in Novi Sad, has by a unanimous decision of the Founding Assembly by acclamation of all the delegates for...

Second Congress of the World Association of Tamburitza

Premises of the World Association of Tamburitza, the hotel "Novi Sad" – Ceremonial Hall The program for Thursday, 25th June 2015, from 3 to 6 pm: Opening Ceremony Jovan Pejčić PhD, the president of WAT Zvonko Bogdan, lifetime honorary president of WAT Scientific Conference - Speakers: Branko Davidović, the president of the European Association of Tamburitza, RS BiH Topic: Tamburitza music from national to universal values Prof. Mihael Ferić, Croatia Topic: Museum of Tambura in Slavonski Brod Prof. Zoran Mulić MA, Serbia Topic: Explicit...

Zvonko Bogdan has won award from EU

The legend of tambourine music and Honorary President of World Tambourine Association Zvonko Bogdan has received European Union Award for artistic and cultural activities and lifetime achievements in the field of music in the Writers Club in Belgrade. The award, which has been awarded and formed in Brussel since 1999. was given at the ceremony by Petar Vašiček. The ceremony was attended by tamburitza players from Subotica, as well as the representatives of the World...

Art Colony

On the terrace of the artistic circle of the fortress in within Tamburitza Fest 2014., there was the art colony in the selection of Borivoj Popržan, a prominent Novi Sad artist. In the seventh session of the colony, besides the selector Popržan, also has participated the painters Saša Dobrić, Sibila Petenji, Bojan Kiridžić, Igor Obrovski and Slobodan Bajić. - Artists of Novi Sad have highly improved work contributed on ethnicity, musicology artistry and creativity, presented...

Tamburitza World Association preparing the Congress and the Festival in Novi Sad

Congress of the Tamburitza World Association will be held on 26 June in Novi Sad, a day before the beginning of the seventh World Festival of tamburitza "Tamburica fest" at the Petrovaradin fortress. That is decided by the Board of Directors of the planetary associations seated in Novi Sad, where Dr. Jovan Pejčić, the president, and Jovan Adamov, member of the Board of Directors, were presenting a range of activities of the association in...

Festival in Županja

The ninth music festival "Šokačke Pisme" was held on 31.01.2014. year in Županja, sponsored by the City of Županja, which attended the President of the World Tamburitza Association Jovan Pejčić and the artistic director of the World Tamburitza Association Jovan Adamov. On that occasion, the President of the World Tamburitza Association Jovan Pejčić awarded the executive director of Županja Festival Damir Bačić with the charter for exceptional achievements in the affirmation of tambura, emphasizing that...

Donation of the WTA “Hvar Evening in Novi Sad”

At the manifestation “Hvar Evening in Novi Sad”, which was organized by the World Tamburitza Association held on the night between 22 and 23 November 2013th year, at the restaurant “Osam Tamburaša” on the Petrovaradin fortress, was collected 650,000 dinars allocated for the revitalization of the fortress. Those funds will be used for the most vulnerable parts of the fort, at the discretion of the Institute for Protection of Cultural Heritage, confirmed Dr. JovanPejčić,...

Zvonko Bogdan, the honorary president of the World Tamburitza Association

RECOGNITION FOR DOYEN OF PANONSKA ŠANSONA (Panonian Chanson) Zvonko Bogdan, the bard of tamburitza music, is officially the honorary president of the World Tamburitza Association from 24 October 2013th year. This award was presented to him by Jovan Pejčić, the president of the World Tamburitza Association and Jovan Adamov, the art director, in a beautiful ambient of Winery "Zvonko Bogdan" at Palić, based on decision of leadership members of the planetary tamburitza association, from the...