Milica Ilić | composer | pianist-repetiteur-teacher

Milica Ilić | pianist and repetiteur

Milica is an active performer, playing mostly in ensembles with singers, but also in other types of chamber ensembles. The music of the 20th and 21st century is her first line of interest, but she is continously exploring and performing music from all historical periods. As a performer she tries to test the borders of "classical concert", combining music with other arts - visual, treatre, literature - which makes her performances fresh, interesting and communicating with the audiences of the contemporary world.

She has a vast experience as a vocal coach, working on all levels of music education with singers (from primary music school to PhD studies). Her repertoire is broad, ranging from opera to artistic song, from baroque to contemporary music. In her work as a coach she insists on equal importance of all artistic components - music, text, dramaturgy, language, context etc., teaching young professionals that an exquisite performance is only possible after a thorough study and deep understanding of the music and text.

repertoire (selection)

opera

W.A. Mozart — Don Giovanni
W.A. Mozart — Così fan tutte
G. Verdi — La Traviata
G. Verdi — Rigoletto
G. Puccini — La Boheme
G. Puccini — Tosca
Ch. Gounod — Faust
P. Mascagni — Cavalleria rusticana
S. Prokofjev — Maddalena
F. Poulenc — La voix humaine
R. Strauss — Daphne
B. Mernier — Frühlings Erwachen
U. Zimmermann — Die weisse Rose

artistic song cycles

G. Rossini — La regata veneziana
F. Schubert — Winterreise D. 911
R. Schumann — Dichterliebe op. 48
R. Schumann — Liederkreis op. 39
R. Schumann — Frauenliebe und Leben op. 42
G. Mahler — Rückert Lieder
A. Dvořák — Gipsy Songs op. 55
A. Dvořák — Biblical Songs op. 99
C. Debussy — Quatre chansons de Jeunesse
M. Ravel — Don Quichotte à Dulcinée
W. Walton — Three Songs
S. Barber — Mélodies passagères
S. Barber — Despite and Still
V. Gavrilin — Russian Notebook
D. Shostakovich — Satires
R. Strauss — 4 Lieder op. 27
M. Mussorgsky — Pesni i pljaski smerti
A. Schönberg — 4 Lieder op. 2
A. Berg — 7 frühe Lieder
B. Britten — On the Island op. 11
D. Argento — Six Elizabethan Songs
J. Turina — Poema en forma de canciones op.19
N. van der Vate — Songs for the Four Parts of the Night
S. de Kenessey — Mirage

piano duo

F. Schubert — Fantasie D. 940
F. Schubert — Divertissement à la hongroise D. 818
C. Debussy — La mer
C. Debussy — Petite suite
C. Debussy — L'enfant prodigue
C. Debussy — En blanc et noir
C. Debussy — Six épigraphes antiques
S. Rachmaninoff — Suite nr. 1, op. 5
S. Rachmaninoff — Suite nr. 2, op. 17
G. Fauré — Dolly op. 56
G. Bizet — Jeux d'enfants
D. Despić — Dubrovnik divertimento

selected links to recordings

Ivana Stefanović: Posveta [Sa druge strane] — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BKkaFFrCw8
Tatjana Milošević: Random [Sa druge strane] — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raaxIxgR_Oo
Aleksandra Vrebalov: Indigo Codes [Sa druge strane] — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXZU9DxNq50
Nataša Bogojević: Kolo [Sa druge strane] — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMgUPY-aH3s
Irena Popović: O večnom talasu koji nikad nije udario o pramac broda i liniju horizonta; Sećaš li se [Sa druge strane] — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKHt3wpA_fk
Jovana Backović: Tales of the Macabre no. 1 [Sa druge strane] — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgnrzqZN94E
Milica Ilić: Zaglavljeni [Sa druge strane] — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iarbT1gm698
R. Schumann: Liederkreis op. 39 — https://youtu.be/F1CQlzfLnyA
Contemporary music for cello: Nemanja Stanković & friends, Studio 6, Radio Belgrade — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yNb-XHL-hM&t=1491s
11123 2 13221 — https://youtu.be/octxHiXh4Bs
C. Debussy: La Mer — https://youtu.be/xzjuD1e-wkM
F. Schubert: Fantasia F minor — https://youtu.be/Kj6JQXF4FW4
F. Schubert: Spring sonata — https://youtu.be/su5tIlO6ooY

Milica Ilić | teacher

Apart from her main profession as a vocal coach, Milica is also teaching in other fields. She developed a course Pianist in opera (which she leads on the Faculty of Music in Belgrade), that offers a thorough preparation and valuable insights to the specific field of working in the opera and the career of an opera repetiteur.

As the guest lecturer at the Royal Conservatoire the Hague and within the course Sound Worlds (which she does with R. Pravda), Milica teaches art students the basic workings of music and sound with a strong accent in demystifying the field of so called "classical music".