Nikola Milanov – Trombone

Nikola Milanov born  1986,In Zrenjanin. Started to play trombone at nine. Studied at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad in Prof. Branislav Aksin’s class. He gained elementary and secondary music education in the music school “Josif Marinkovic” in Zrenjanin in the class of Prof. (Tapai Vendel and Branislav Gagic). As a soloist, a member of chamber ensembles and symphony orchestras, has performed at many concerts organized by the Academy of Arts Novi  Sad. At the State contests won a second award and twice was a Laureate of the competition. He has won three first prizes at international meetings Brass in Novi Sad. He played in the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Serbia.  Since 2007  was employed as the second trombone in the orchestra of the Opera of Serbian National Theatre in Novi Sad. And from 2011. As a principal trombone of the Serbian National Theatre. He also was engaged as a trombone player of the Belgrade philharmonic orchestra since 2014. Also he is a member of the Vojvodina Symphony Orchestra since 2005.

Exceptional tutors trained Nikola, including Ian Bousfield, György Gyivicsan, Branimir Slokar, Håkan Björkman, and Edgar Manyak.

As a soloist and member of chamber ensembles and symphony orchestras, has performed at many concerts and music festivals: NOMUS, BEMUS, Armal opera festival, Film Festival Sarajevo, Al Bustan International Festival Lebanon, Ljubljana summer festival, Opera Tour in China.

Nikola Milanov participated as a mentor in the first year of the project “Sound of Change.”2022.

He has collaborated with a lot of famous conductors, such as Zubin Mehta, Michail Jurowski, Daniel Rajskin, Gabriel Feltz, Alexander Anissimov, Uros Lajovic, Srboljub Dinic, Gianluca Marciano, Emil Tabakov, Marco Parisotto, Hauard Grifits, John Axelrod, Ion Iancu.