Professor Nada Vukovic was born in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1976.
From 2001 to 2016, she worked at the Academy of Art in Belgrade as a professor, in the Department of Sound Design and Music Production (Subjects: Solfeggio with the theory of music, Score reading and Musical instruments).
She finished Theoretic department of Music High School ”Kornelije Stankovic”, as the best student in her generation.
She graduated and finished post-graduate studies of conducting at the Faculty of Music, Art University of Belgrade, in the class of professor Darinka Matic Marovic.
Nada also assisted to professor Darinka Matic Marovic with the choirs ‘‘Collegium Musicum” (1995-1997) and ‘‘Obilic AKUD Branko Krsmanovic”(1994-2000).
From 2000 – 2010 she was the conductor of the choir ”Belcanto”.
With this choir, she had numerous concerts in Belgrade (Atrium of National Museum, Gallery SANU (Serbian Academy of Science and Art), Ethnographic Museum, Cvijeta Zuzoric Pavilion, Ruski dom (Center of Russian Culture and Art), Sava Center, the Fresco Gallery, SKC (Student Cultural Center), the Temple of St. Sava, Museum of Contemporary Art,…), and it is also significant to mention that with ”Belcanto” she took participation on festivals, such as: ”The Days of Mokranjac” in Negotin, Serbia, ”The Days of Jelena Anzujska” in Gradac Monastery, Serbia, as well as on the concerts abroad (Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Russian Federation, Germany, Kingdom of Holland, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Srpska (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Czech Republic, Turkey, Bulgaria, Spain, Italy…).
During 2007, Nada was conductor of ‘Iuventus Cantat” choir from Sombor, Serbia. A series of fantastic performances in Switzerland is something that has marked the collaboration with the choir.
In 2010 she founded the “Trinity” choir and she was choir conductor until the end of 2011. What makes the choir recognizable is its choreography, in addition to singing, and performing on the scene.
After a successful tour of Spain, the choir “Trinity”, was the choir announced as THE BEST CHOIR of the “32 International Choir Festival in Catalonia”, Nada gets an invitation to hold a master class to the choirs from around the world, in 2013., in Barcelona.
She won numerous prizes and acknowledgements with her ensembles:
1999 – FIRST PRIZE on the Republic Competition of String Orchestras with the Orchestra of Music School ”Vatroslav Lisinski”.
2000 – FIRST PRIZE on the Republic Choir Competition with the Choir of Music School ”Vatroslav Lisinski”.
2000 – SPECIAL PRIZE on the Republic Choir Competition with the Choir of Music School ”Vatroslav Lisinski“.
2001 – LAUREATES of Fifth Eastern Festival of Russian Sacred Music in Krasnoyarsk ( Russian Federation ) with ”Belcanto” choir.
2001 – GOLDEN BELT – FIRST PRIZE in the mixed choirs category as well as the Special prize for interpretation of national composition on 9th Academic Banska Bistrica ( Slovakia ), with ‘Belcanto’ choir.
2002 – SPECIAL PRIZE and LAUREATES of Republic Competition of Music High Schools with the choir of Music High School ”Vatroslav Lisinski”.
2002 – SILVER DIPLOMA in the category of mixed choirs of 4th International Choir Competition in Miltenberg-Elzenfeld ( Germany ) with ”Belcanto” choir.
2002 – FIRST PLACE in the mixed choirs category of 1st International Choir Festival ”Dragan Suplevski”, Skopje ( FYR Macedonia ) with ”Belcanto” choir.
2003 – FIRST PLACE in the mixed choirs category of 3rd International Choir Competition ”Zlatna vila” Prijedor ( Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina ) with ”Belcanto” choir.
2005 – SPECIAL PRIZE for the best performance of composition with folklore elements in the mixed choirs category of 5th International Choir Competition ”Zlatna vila”, Prijedor (Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina ) with ”Belcanto” choir.
2005 – SPECIAL PRIZE for the best interpretation and high artistic achievement in the mixed choirs category on International Competition of ”Bogorodica, Dostojno Jest”, Pomorie (Bulgaria), with ”Belcanto” choir.
2006 – SPECIAL PRIZE for innovation, virtuosity, and glow of interpretation in the mixed choirs category of 6th International Choir Competition ”Zlatna vila”, Prijedor (the Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina) with ‘Belcanto’ choir.
2007 – LAUREATES at the 13th Festival of Sacred Music ”Choirs among Frescoes”, ”Vojislav Ilic” prize, in the chamber choirs category, with ”Belcanto” choir and approbation for research in the field of the contemporary Serbian sacred music.
2008 – THE SPECIAL AWARD in the chamber choirs category at 14th Festival of Sacred Music “CHOIRS AMONG FRESCOES”, with ”Belcanto” choir (Belgrade, Serbia).
2009 – LAUREATES at the 15th festival of sacred music Choirs among Frescoes, in the chamber choirs category (Belgrade, Serbia), with Belcanto choir.
2010 – AWARD FOR BEST PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM at the First International Choir Festival “Voice of Belgrade”, Belgrade (Serbia), with Belcanto choir.
2010 – SPECIAL PRIZE for the best performance of contemporary choral composition at XXIII festival in Nis (Serbia), with “Belcanto” choir.
In September 2011 the choir “Trinity ” was announced as THE BEST CHOIR of the “32 International Choir Festival in Catalonia”, Spain.
Nada Vukovic has significant pedagogic experience:
*1994 – 1995 Music High School ”Kornelije Stankovic”: Teacher (Subject: Conducting)
*1995 – 1996 Grammar School ”Sveti Sava”: Teacher (Subject: Musical Culture)
*1998 – 2000 High School ”XIII beogradska gimnazija” :Teacher (Subject : Music Art)
*1998 – 2003 Music School ”Vatroslav Lisinski”: Professor (Subjects: Piano, Conducting, Score reading), Conductor of the Choir, String orchestra and Accordion orchestra. As the guest conductor, she cooperates with the orchestra and the choir of the music school ”Petar Konjovic”.
She also cooperated with String Orchestra ”Pro Classica” ( In 2000, she recorded one project for music redaction of RTS (Radio Television of Serbia) with it), Symphonic Orchestra of Serbian (Yugoslavian) Army ”Stanislav Binicki” (2001, Club of Serbian Army), as well as with String Orchestra of School for Musical Talents in Cuprija (Serbia).
Apart from her work and cooperation with ensembles, she worked as a broadcaster of Radio News (1994-1995) – edited and broadcasted classical music program ” Stellar Sound Avenue”.
In 1999, she recorded a project ”Musical Alphabet” ( the book and cassette for musical literacy of children.) for the RTS publishing house.
From 2004 she is a member of “SERAPHIMS”, an ensemble with the composer Aleksandar Simic at the top, as well as a member of Music Artists Association of Serbia.
In November 2007, she received a prize for research in the area of contemporary Serbian spiritual music.
In the nineties, she sang jazz, evergreen, and pop music in Belgrade clubs.
She also worked with numerous artists from the world of pop, rock, and jazz music, and she is often a judge at various music festivals.
Professor Nada Vukovic has also specialized in pedagogy, working with vocal technique, for 30 years.
Ivana Selakov, Nikola Rokvic, Aleksandar Cvetkovic, Sasa Kovacevic, and Nenad Ceranic are just some of the Nada’s former students.
In 2009, she cooperates with Aleksandra Kovac, at the singing school “Voice of Belgrade”, and in 2010 she cooperates with Ivana Selakov at the “Ivana Selakov’s School of Singing”.
2011 – she founded a singing school “Voices of Hope”.
The students of singing school “Voices of Hope” participated at numerous singing competitions such as “Serbia got talent” (Manja Marković i Marija Serdar), “The first voice of Serbia”(Vesna Pavlović),“X Factor Adria”(Aleksandra Brković i Lana Šojić), “Zvezde Granda” (Milica Jokić, Tamara Dragić, Aleksandar Marinković Gute, Mirjana Šišić i Ivana Munđa), “Pink’s stars for kids” (Marija Serdar, Anđela Nešković, Anđela Tasić, Nikola Milenković, Irina Arsenijević, Ivana Babić, Anja Vučković, Teodora Radosavljević, Vladislava Jajčević, Manja Marković, Lana Vučenović, Elena Barišić, Darija Radaković, Dimitrije Jakšić, Mina Radulović, Ivana Dimkovski, Tea Vujović, Adriana Salahović, Eva Manić i Daria Subotić) i “Pink’s stars” (Vladimir Krunić, Stefan Cvetković, Uroš Stefanović, Kristina Kuzmanovska, Aleksandra Aleksić, Aleksa Savić, Nikola Petković, Vladimir Cvetkoviić, Vladana Andrić, Stefan Damjanović, Darinka Moldovan, Stefan Krstić, Aleksandar Gute Marinković i Firuca Čina) and “New kids” (Milica Jokić, Nemanja Stanković, Anđela Savić, Miodrag Lovrić i Manja Marković).
With her students, she takes part in many festivals around the world.
August 2017 – “International Children’s Singing Festival Brežice” (Brežice, Slovenia)
In a competition of 60 singers, Katarina Abramović won First place, and Anđela Nešković Second place (each in her own category).
September 2017 – “Sofia Gran Prix” (Sofia, Bulgaria)
In a competition of 130 singers, the students won three Grand Prix prizes, six First prizes, three Second prizes and two Third prizes (each in its own category).
October 2017 – “Rising Stars” (Vienna, Austria)
In a competition of 100 performers, students won eight First and two Second prizes. The school received the “Grand Prix” award for the best delegation that appeared at this prestigious competition, and Nada Vuković, M.Sc., received the same award as the best professor of the Festival.
November 2017 – “Školjkice” (Novi Sad, Serbia)
Daria Daka Vračević won 1st place and an invitation to represent Serbia at the “Slavic Bazaar” in Belarus in July 2018.
April 2018 – “Euro Stars” (Valletta, Malta)
In a competition of 100 performers, Anđela Nešković won the prestigious title of “Star of the Festival”. Vladislava Jajčević, Adriana Salahović and Tamara Jovanović won second place (each in their own category), and Sofija Filipović received the “Child to Child” award.
August 2018 – “Tra-la-la” (Ohrid, Macedonia)
Special awards for Milica Ilić and Adriana Salahović.
September 2018 – “Angel Voice” (Belgrade, Serbia)
In a competition of 110 singers, the students won:
“Grand Prix” – Mina Radulović;
1st place – Ana Pjanić (solo song), Adriana Salahović, Tea Vujović and Sofija Filipović
1st place – Katarina Abramović and Nikola Milenković (duet)
II place – Anastasija Mitrović, Katarina Aleksić and Anđelija Stojanović
III place – Milica Ilić, Anja Jakimov and Nemanja Stanković
November 2018 – “Singer Stage” (Valletta, Malta)
November 2018 – “Berliner Perle” (Berlin, Germany)
March 2019 – “Preparing Stars” (Baia Mare, Romania):
“Grand Prix” – Mina Radulović;
Laureates – Katarina Abramović, Anastasija Mitrović and Anja Jakimov;
1st place – Tara Šujeranović; 2nd place – Marija Čolaković, Marija Vranešević, Natalija Jovanović, Ana Pjanić and Mina Marjanović;
June 2019
Aleksandar Gute Marinković made it to the finals of the “Zvezde Granda” competition
Valentina Metz made it to the finals of the “Pink Stars” competition Anđela Perišić won 1st place at the event “Bojčin Cultural Summer”
September 2019 – “Angel Voice” (Belgrade, Serbia)
In a competition of 200 singers, the students won:
Laureates – Sofija Sretenović, Katarina Abramović, Anastasija Mitrović, Anđelija Stojanović and Vladislava Jajčević
1st place – Petra Rakić, Natalija Jovanović, Tara Šujeranović, Anđela Perišić, Tea Vujović, Anđela Nešković, Jovana Tirić, Marija Čolaković and Nenad Milić (each in their own category)
II place – Filip Anđelić, Marijana Anđelić, Anđela Stošić and Marija Šainović
III place – Maja Jablanović, Iva Biljić, Marija Vranešević and Danilo Denčić
May 2020 – Katarina Abramović won 1st place at the festival “Making Music”
June 2020 – International competition festival “Star rain cup” (Berlin, Germany)
Both “Grand Prix” went to Serbia, to the students of the “Voices of Hope” singing school, Tara Šujeranović and Adriana Salahović.
September 2020 – “Preparing Stars” (Baia Mare, Romania) – Veljko Kovačević and Nikolina Petrović won 1st place, each in their own category
June 2021 – “Angel Voice” (Belgrade, Serbia)
Laureates: Mina Radulović, Marija Jandrić, Saška Pavlović and Aleksandar Andrejić
1st place: Ana Đokić, Katarina Abramović, Sofija Filipović, Mina Mujkić and Nikolina Petrović
II place: Marija Vranešević and Veljko Kovačević
August 2021 – “Preparing Stars” (Baia Mare, Romania)
1st place – Saška Pavlović
December 2021 – “The city of talents” (Baia Mare, Romania)
Sara Ilić won two first places – in the domestic and foreign music categories.
February 2022 – “Angel Voice” (Belgrade, Serbia)
Laureate – Mina Mujkić
1st place – Aleksej Jakšić
II place – Nina Ćurgus, Saška Pavlović, Sara Ilić
April 2022 – “SE-Aphrodite Voice” (Limasol, Cyprus)
Laureates of the II category – Aleksej Jakšić and Marija Jandrić
November 2023 – Festival “Skoljkice” (Novi Sad, Serbia) – Aleksej Jakšić – 1st place
January 2024 – “Intercontinental Music Awards” (Los Angeles) – Doroteja Egarić – Winner of the competition
May 2024 – St. George’s Day Festival (Banja Luka, Republika Srpska) – Daria Subotić – 1st place
May 2024 – “Angel Voice” (Belgrade, Serbia) – Aleksej Jakšić – “Grand Prix”
July 2024 – “Fans Festival” (Koper, Slovenia) – Aleksej Jakšić – 1st place
August 2024 – “Unsigned only music competition” (Nashville, USA) – Doroteja Egarić – entered the finals (only 4% of all applicants from around the world entered the finals). Jury: Leann Rimes, Jill Scott, Angie Stone, Robert Smith, Masa Takumi and others.
Every July students from the singing school Voices of Hope are a part of International summer school Pucisca, on the Island of Croatia, Brac.
In October 2017th she published the book for children “Zoe, the young pianist”, for publisher from Cacak, “Pcelica”.
In 2018th, she formed the female choir called “Neume”, (Cultural Centre Sopot).
In 2020, prof. Nada Vukovic has become the International vocal coach, and supervisor, at P.S. Music Academy (Romania, Baia Mare)
In 2023, Professor Nada Vukovic established a singing school choir “The Voices of Hope”
In 2024, she founded the singing school “Voices of Hope” in Montenegro (Žabljak, Durmitor).
