We Are Singing Music Association

Zorica Kozlovački

Serbia

Zorica Kozlovački is a conductor, collaborative pianist, and music educator with more than three decades of rich artistic and pedagogical experience. She graduated from the Department of Music Pedagogy at the Academy of Arts, University of Novi Sad, and earned her Master’s degree in Choral Conducting under the mentorship of Professor Tatjana Ostojić.

Since 1994, she has been employed at Music School “Josif Marinković”, where since 2006 she has conducted the Youth Mixed Choir, Girls’ Choir, and the school’s folk ensemble. She is the founder, conductor, and artistic director of the Mixed Choir and Male Vocal Ensemble “Pannonica”, as well as the ensemble “Pop Choir Studio”. She also performs actively as an alto singer in the Vocal Quartet “Vita Brevis”.

Together with her ensembles, she has developed an extensive concert activity and performed at numerous international festivals and choral competitions throughout Europe. She is the recipient of more than 80 top awards and recognitions in Serbia, Italy, Belgium, Austria, Slovenia, Slovakia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Romania, Croatia, and Montenegro.

She regularly leads choral workshops, seminars, masterclasses, and collective singing projects (“Open Singing”), and is frequently engaged as a jury member at regional and international choral competitions. She is one of the founders and a Board member of the Serbian Choral Association, within which she has represented Serbia several times at the General Assembly of the European Choral Association – Europa Cantat. She also serves as activities coordinator and assistant conductor of the National Youth Choir of Serbia.

For her outstanding achievements in music education, she received the Annual Award of the Union of Music and Ballet Pedagogues of Serbia in 2012. The following year, she was honored with the “Talents 2013” Award of the Provincial Secretariat for Youth and Sports for exceptional artistic achievements in Serbia and abroad. In 2019, she received the City of Zrenjanin Award for outstanding artistic activity with the Youth Choir and was named Person of the Year in the field of culture.