ABOUT IJMC
The International Jeunesses Musicales Competition Belgrade was established in 1971 and praises the status of the project of significant importance within the Jeunesses Musicales International – JMI (based in Brussels), since 1974 the IJMC has been a member of the World Federation of International Music Competitions – WFIMC (based in Geneve), which gathers the world’s greatest competitions such as: “Maria Callas” in Athens, “Queen Elizabeth” in Brussels, “Jan Sibelius” in Helsinki, “Johan Sebastian Bach” in Leipzig, “Prague Spring” in Prague, “Paganini” in Genoa and others.
The Competition is multidisciplinary and has a five-year cycle where different performing disciplines are represented creating the opportunity, through the competition rules, for each generation to test and confirm its artistic values. Some of the laureates of our Competition were: cellists Mineo Hayashi (Japan), Ina Joost (Germany) and Kirill Rodin (Russia), pianists Natalia Trull (Russia) and Philipe Bianconi (France), violinists Gotfried Schneider (Germany) and Alexis Gaplerine (France), flutist Irena Grafenauer (Yugoslavia), clarinetists James Campbell (Canada) and Mate Bekavac (Slovenia), oboist Helen Jahren (Sweden), solo voice Milena Kitić (Yugoslavia), wind quintet “Paul Taffanel” (France) Moscow String Quartet, clarinetist Stojan Krkuleski (Serbia), pianist Andrey Ivanov (Belarus), violinist Nazar Fedyuk (Switzerland), pianist Marta Czech (Poland), and many others.
Among the ones who followed and judged the competitors as arbiters were esteemed names like Andre Navarra (France) and Danil Shafran (Russia), Rodion Schedrin (Russia), Kendall Taylor (Great Britain), Mikhail Voskresensky (Russia), Gilles Lefevre (Canada), David Takeno (Japan), Elena Obrascova (Russia), Christian Larde (France), Henri Dutilleux (France), Alexis Galperine (France), Joan Enric Lluna (Spain), Roman Simović (Montenegro), Stefan Milenković (Serbia), Pavel Vernikov (Switzerland/Israel), Dong-Suk Kang (South Korea), etc.
Next categories: HARP (2025), VIOLA (2026).
CONTACT
MANIFESTATION BOARD
President:
MAJA JOKANOVIĆ, professor in the artistic field of Violin at Faculty of Music in Belgrade
Members:
ANDRIJA BOJANIĆ, Acting director of The Belgrade Youth Home
SINIŠA RADOJČIĆ, piano professor in Music School “Kosta Manojlovic”
TIJANA LUKIĆ, Music Editor and Journalist of RTS
TATJANA VOJNOV, Musicologist, director of the IJMC and President of Jeunesses Musicales Belgrade
ORGANIZED BY
Organizational team:
TATJANA VOJNOV, Director of the IJMC
MAŠA IVANKOVIĆ LENASI, Director’s Assistant
ANA IVANKOVIĆ, Organization
NIKOLA NEJČEV, Secretary of the Jury, Program Editor, PR
GORDANA RADOICIĆ, Secretary of JM Serbia, Belgrade
SINISA SUBOTIĆ, Visual identity of IJMC, Design and editing
SPONSORS AND SUPPORTERS OF IJMC 2025
