Dragana Paunovic

Dragana Paunovic

Born in Novi Sad, Serbia. She completed her studies at the Music Theory Department of the Isidor Bajić Music High School. She graduated in Music Pedagogy at the Academy of Music in Novi Sad and in Opera Singing at the ‘Giuseppe Tartini’ Conservatory in Trieste. She is currently attending the two-year lyrical singing course at the ‘Giuseppe Tartini’ Conservatory.

Since the age of six, she has been singing in choirs, including: “Zvončići” – children’s choir, “Chamber Choir” – with which she has participated in operettas that were performed in the National Theatre in Novi Sad, “Chamber Choir of Novi Sad” – one of the most recognised choirs in Serbia and the Balkans, with which she has participated in concerts and competitions in Spain, Germany, Italy, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, Romania, Sardinia, Hungary, etc. With her colleague, she founded the women’s group ‘Res miranda‘, with which she has won competitions and given concerts in Serbia and abroad.

She started studying singing privately with some renowned singers: Vesna Aćimović (Serbia), Hun Lee (North Korea), Jelena Končar (Serbia) and Nenad Marinković (Austria). She has participated in Masterclasses in Serbia, Italy and Canada. Since her studies in Trieste, she has joined several choirs as a soloist and as a member of the choir in the mezzo-sopranos/halto section.
She was awarded a scholarship to study for six months in Canada at the prestigious ‘University of Toronto, Faculty of Music’, specialising in opera singing with Maestro Laura Tucker.

She worked in Serbia for four years at the private music school ‘Melodium‘, now known as ‘Melodies‘. She gave piano, singing and music propaedeutic lessons for children aged 1-7 years.

She has sung in concerts in Serbia, Croatia, Italy and Canada.