Darinka Simic-Mitrovic Explained

Darinka Simic-Mitrovic (born February 19, 1937) is a Serbian author, composer^{[1] [2]} and music educator.^[3]

Biography

Simic-Mitrovic was born in Belgrade. She earned a degree from the Music Academy in Belgrade in 1962, where her teachers included Emil Hajek and Predrag Milosevic. After graduating, Simic-Mitrovic taught piano at the Music School Josip Slavenski, where she received the 1964 April 4 Award of the Federation of Students. In 1967, she began working as a music editor at Radio Belgrade.^[4] She married Mirosav Mitrovic in 1975 and they had two daughters.

Simic-Mitrovic is a member of the Composers’ Association of Serbia.^[5] In addition to composing music, she wrote a book about Serbian theatre, and contributed to a history of the Belgrade Symphony Orchestra and Choir of Radio-Television Belgrade. Her works have been published by Radio Beograd and Zvonik.^[6] They include:

Books

• A Sentimental Story of Serbian Theatre
• Da Capo all’Infinito: Half a Century Since the Founding of the Belgrade Symphony Orchestra and Choir of Radio-Television Belgrade (with Slobodan Atanackovic and Sveta Lukic)

Chamber

• Sonata (violin and piano)
• Igre (dances; bassoon and piano)

Vocal

• Gradinar (song cycles; mezzo-soprano and piano; text by Rabindranath Tagore)
• Vrati Mi Moje Krpice (song cycle; two sopranos, violin, flute, harp and cello; text by Vasko Popa)

Notes and References

1. Book: Stewart-Green, Miriam . Women composers : a checklist of works for the solo voice . 1980 . G.K. Hall . 0-8161-8498-4 . Boston, Mass. . 6815939.
2. Book: Hixon, Donald L. . Women in music : an encyclopedic biobibliography . 1993 . Scarecrow Press . Don A. Hennessee . 0-8108-2769-7 . 2nd . Metuchen, N.J. . 28889156.
3. Book: Cummings, David . International who's who in music and musicians' directory : (in the classical and light classical fields). . 2000 . International Biographical Centre . 0-948875-53-4 . 595 . 44483931.
4. Book: Cohen, Aaron I. . International encyclopedia of women composers . 1987 . 0-9617485-2-4 . Second edition, revised and enlarged . New York . 16714846.
5. Web site: S Composers' Association of Serbia . 2022-04-05 . composers.rs.
6. Web site: Simic-Mitrovic . Darinka . Worldcat.org . 2022-04-05 .