Dushica Kordic

Dušica Kordić was born in Kotor in 1981. She began her primary music education at the age of 9 at the "Vida Matjan" music school (Kotor), in the class of Professor Ljudmila Petrova. She continued her secondary music education at the "Mokranjac" music school (Belgrade), in the class of distinguished professor Dejan Mihajlović, with whom she also continued her studies in Belgrade and Sarajevo, where she graduated in 2006. She is a scholarship recipient of Berklee College of Music in Boston (2009) and Roosevelt University in Chicago (2003). She is a graduate student at ALU (Belgrade), in the jazz department in the class of Professor Vladana Marković (vocals). She has collaborated with distinguished artists such as: Henning Kraggerud, Irina Chukovskaya, Nick Miskoru, Oleg Janovski and others. She perfected Tap dance in the USA and as a Tap dance performer recorded a solo act for Eurovision 2008 - a postcard for Macedonia. Since 2013, she has been collaborating with guitarist Dražen Joković with whom she has performed hundreds of concerts in the country and abroad, as well as recording and releasing a CD for the renowned "Bach Advent" festival in Arnstadt (Germany), where they are regular guests. Since 2015, she has also been collaborating with pianist Nikola Vučković with whom she also performs significant recitals in the country and abroad (Montenegro, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria, Germany). She has made permanent audio and video recordings for Radio and Television of Montenegro, USA, Germany and Norway. She was engaged as a violin professor at JU ŠOMO in Budva and JU ŠOSMO "Vida Matjan" in Kotor. Since 2021, she has been engaged as the leader of the amateur ensemble "Stanjevićki pojci" at the Stanjevići monastery near Budva, with whom she performed a very successful debut concert of ethno music in February 2022 in Budva. Also, since 2022, she has been playing the gusle intensively. As a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, she very successfully combines classical, jazz and ethno music directions. She is currently engaged as director of JU ŠOMO in Budva.