Ohrid summer
Festival

Emmanuel Pahud is one of today's most exciting and adventurous musicians. He was born in Geneva in January 1970 and started to study music at the age of six. He graduated in 1990 with the Premier Prix from the Conservatoire National de Musique de Paris, after which he continued his studies with Aurele Nicolet. He has won first prize in many major International Music Competitions like Kobe in 1989 and Duino in 1988, then won eight out of the twelve special prizes at the Concours de Geneve in 1992. At the age of 22, Emmanuel Pahud was appointed Principal Flute of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Claudio Abbado, a post to which he returned in 2002 after an 18-month sabbatical when he taught the Virtuosity Class at the Geneva.
Emmanuel appears regularly at leading festivals throughout Europe, the USA and the Far East. He has appeared as soloist with many of the world's leading orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Zurich Tonhalle, Mariinski, Camerata Salzburg and many others. He's collaborated with conductors such as Abbado, Rattle, Zinman, Maazel, Gergiev, Gardiner, Harding, Rostropovich and Perlman. He is a dedicated chamber musician and regularly gives recital tours with pianists such as Eric Le Sage, Yefim Bronfman and Helene Grimaud, as well as jazzing with Jacky Terrasson.
In 1996 he signed an exclusive contract with EMI Classics, a collaboration which is set to be one of the most significant contributions to recorded flute music. The releases have received unanimous critical acclaim ("I haven't heard a flautist on disc that I like as much as Pahud" - American Record Guide; "surpassing any previous recordings of the Mozart quartets"- BBC Music Magazine; "this signals the arrival of a new master flautist" - The Guardian ; "don't miss any of Pahud's recordings!" Diapason), and have been showered with awards including Diapason d'Or, Radio France's "Recording of the Year" and many others in Germany and Japan.
Svetlana Dejanovic-Avramovic started her music education with Prof. Olga Jankovic in Nish and continued her education and graduated in the class of Andreja Preger. As a student she is the recipient of numerous awards. After graduating she continued performing and started working as a piano pedagogue. She was one of the first piano accompanists at the specialized music school in Chuprija. Svetlana performs in Serbia and abroad as a piano accompanist. Her students are respected pianists and pedagogues.