Jovan Kolundžija
Јован Колунџија
Member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia
Assumed office
3 August 2020
Personal details
Born (1948-10-04) 4 October 1948
Belgrade, PR Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia
Political partyIndependent
Alma materUniversity of Arts in Belgrade
ProfessionClassical Violinist

Jovan Kolundžija (Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Колунџија; born 4 October 1948[1]) is a Serbian violin maestro and politician. He has been a member of the National Assembly of Serbia since 2020, serving as an independent delegate in the parliamentary group of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS).

Early life and musical career

Kolundžija was born in Belgrade, in what was then the People's Republic of Serbia in the People's Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He earned 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 the Serbian government recognized as an institution of cultural significance 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, which comprised 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, which included all of Beethoven's sonatas for solo violin and piano.[3]

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

Politician

Kolundžija received the third position on the Progressive Party's 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 out of 250 seats. In announcing his candidacy, he said he would work in a non-partisan capacity for meaningful changes in Serbia's cultural sector.[5] In his first term, he was a member of the culture and information committee and a deputy member of Serbia's delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean.[6]

He appeared in the ninth position on the SNS's Together We Can Do Everything list in the 2022 Serbian parliamentary election and was re-elected when the list won a plurality victory with 120 seats.[7] He is the leader of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with Eswatini.[8]

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. ↑ ЈОВАН КОЛУНЏИЈА, Archived 2021-11-23 at the Wayback Machine, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 31 May 2022.
  7. ↑ "Ko su kandidati SNS za narodne poslanike?", Danas, 17 February 2022, accessed 17 April 2022.
  8. ↑ JOVAN KOLUNDZIJA, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 12 July 2023.
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