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Milan Milisavljević

Milan Milisavljević

Music Artist Faculty

Music and Performing Arts Professions

Considered one of the leading violists of today, Milan Milisavljević is Principal Viola with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. His performances combine intense expression with an immediate and profound link to his listeners and have won much critical acclaim.

The Strad magazine has described his playing as “very imaginative with a fine cultured tone.” Milan’s solo album Sonata-Song, released by Delos Music, has received glowing reviews with the recording of A. Khachaturian’s solo sonata on the album hailed as “definitive.” He has won prizes at competitions such as Lionel Tertis and Aspen Lower Strings and has performed at Marlboro, Cascade Head, Classical Tahoe, Agassiz, and Grand Teton music festivals. Milan has appeared as soloist throughout the world, with orchestras such as the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the Belgrade Philharmonic, Aspen Sinfonia, Classical Tahoe, Orquesta Filarmónica de Boca del Río, and many others. As a chamber musician, he has collaborated with members of the Guarneri and Mendelssohn String Quartets, as well as Joseph Kalichstein, Sergiu Luca, Cho-Liang Lin and many others.

Milan has been heard worldwide on countless recordings and broadcasts of the MET. He previously served as its Assistant Principal Viola for twelve seasons. He is a former member of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and has served as guest Principal Viola of many orchestras, such as the Toronto Symphony.

Milan has coached violists in masterclasses at universities and conservatories worldwide, such as at the Juilliard School and the Rubin Academy of Music, as well as at Verbier Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival, and as a volunteer at Ecole de musique St-Trinite in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Deeply committed to works of underrepresented composers, Milan gave the world premiere of Afro-Cuban composer Leo Brouwer’s Solo Viola Sonata in 2020, and he regularly performs new music by Ana Sokolovic, Jessie Montgomery and others.

Milan’s teachers include Jutta Puchhammer, Atar Arad, James Dunham, Nobuko Imai and Samuel Rhodes. He plays on instruments and bows made by Stephan Von Baehr and Charles Espey and is a Larsen Strings Artist. Milan is also increasingly in demand as a conductor.

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