Jovan Kolundžija

Jovan Kolundžija (Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Колунџија; born 4 October 1948[1]) is a violin maestro and politician in Serbia. He was elected to the National Assembly of Serbia in the 2020 parliamentary election on the electoral list of the Serbian Progressive Party.

Early life and career as violinist

Kolundžija was born in Belgrade, in what was then the People's Republic of Serbia in the People's Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He holds a master's degree in music from the University of Arts in Belgrade and later studied with Henryk Szeryng. He performs on a 1745 Guarnerius.

Kolundžija is the founder of the Guarnerius Centre for Fine Arts in Belgrade, which was recognized as an institution of cultural significance by the government of Serbia in 2013. He has participated in more than four thousand concerts internationally, including performances at Carnegie Hall and the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall.[2]

In 1994, Kolundžija was the featured violinist for a program called The Ten Magnificents, comprising performances of concertos by J.S. Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Felix Mendelssohn, Max Bruch, Édouard Lalo, Henryk Wieniawski, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Johannes Brahms over the course of four days. In 2008, he performed a program called Do You Love Beethoven? in Belgrade, consisting of all of Beethoven's sonatas for solo violin and piano.[3]

He is the brother of pianist Nada Kolundžija, with whom he has frequently performed.

Parliamentarian

Kolundžija received the third position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children electoral list in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election.[4] This was tantamount to election, and he was indeed elected when the list won a landslide majority with 188 mandates. In announcing his candidacy, he said he would work in a non-partisan capacity for meaningful changes in Serbia's cultural sector.[5]

He is a member of the assembly's culture and information committee and a deputy member of Serbia's delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean. He serves in the Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children parliamentary group, although he is not a member of any party.[6]

References
  1. JOVAN KOLUNDŽIJA, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 4 August 2020.
  2. Jovan Kolundžija concert notes, Novi Sad Cultural Centre, 2013, accessed 27 June 2020.
  3. JOVAN KOLUNDŽIJA, Guarneri Arts Centre, accessed 27 June 2020.
  4. "Ko je sve na listi SNS za republičke poslanike?", Danas, 6 March 2020, accessed 30 June 2020.
  5. Jovan Kolundžija: Ne vidim alternativu ovoj vlasti, Beta, 9 March 2020, accessed 27 June 2020.
  6. JOVAN KOLUNDzIJA, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 3 December 2020.
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