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Dragomir Braticstarted playing the piano at the age of fourteen. He graduated from the Music School “Josip Slavenski” in Belgrade in the class of Zlate Poparic. He graduated from the Department of Piano and Master's degree from the Department of Chamber Music (direction: Piano Duo) at the Faculty of Musical Arts in Belgrade in the classes of Ninoslav Živković and Zorica Ćetković. He trained at master classes: Arba Waldma, Igor Laska, Pavel Nersesyan, Natalia Trul. He is a piano teacher at the Davorin Jenko Music School in Belgrade.
He has been a member of the Association of Musical Artists of Serbia since 2005. Since 2006, the coordinator is Prof. Arba Valdme for Serbia with which he realized four accredited seminars approved by the Institute for the Advancement of Education and Education. From 2008-2015 he is the head of the board of directors of the International Competition of Young Pianists in Šapac. He has been the director of the Republic Competition of Pupils of Music and Ballet Schools of Serbia since 2011. He has been the president of the Belgrade Piano Section since October 2015.
He is the author and presenter of the forum at 17. International Competition of Young Pianists in Šapac: “Principles of evaluation in music competitions. Subjective or objective assessment?” which was accredited by the Institute for the Advancement of Education and Education. As part of the PIANO/FVG piano competition held in May 2014 in the Italian city of Sachile under the auspices of CEI (Central European Initiative) forum and the Alinx-Argerič Foundation, he gave a lecture on the Serbian piano school and the good and bad sides of the competition. Dragomir Bratić is a co-author (with Professor Dragoljub Katunec of the Academy of Arts of Novi Sad and Croatian pianist Aljoš Jurinić) and the realization of the professional meeting “Meeting with an Artist: International Frederik Šopen Competition — Then and Now” within the framework of Belgrade Šopen Fest 2016. He was the mediator of conversations in front of the audience with young piano stars Dmitry Shishkin (Russia) and Shimon Nering (Poland). He holds seminars in the country and throughout Europe.
He is the author of the textbook Musical Culture for the first grade of primary school published by BIGZ.
By the originality of the approach to working with children, he belongs to the ranks of the most talented educators of the younger generation. He has received numerous awards for his pedagogical work in the country and abroad. He is the author of numerous distinguished classes with an emphasis on an individual approach to solving problems in musical performance.
His students played in all the prestigious halls of Serbia and in the most famous concert halls abroad (Carnegie Hall in New York, Muzikferein in Vienna...).
Professor Bratić's students have so far won over 500 first and special prizes (laureates) at domestic and competitions in Italy, Slovenia, France, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Romania, Sweden, Czech Republic, Hungary, America, Germany and Austria. He performs intensively in piano duet with Maja Rajković. He is the official piano collaborator of the children's choir of Radio Television of Serbia “Kolibri”.
He is a member of the jury at almost all domestic competitions and in competitions in Slovenia, Italy, Czech Republic, Hungary, France, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Austria, Germany and Poland.
Selected by the publishing house KLET, the Lexicon of 1000 most successful Serbian creators in pre-university education appeared in Lexicon.
