Bojan Suđić is one of the most brilliant conductor names that arose from ex-Yugoslav region in the end of 20th century.

He made his professional debut at the age of nineteen.

At the Yugoslav Competition of Music Artists (Zagreb, 1989) he got the First prize which, in this category had never been awarded since the establishment of the competition in 1940. In the same year he was awarded scholarship from the Lovro von Matačić’s Foundation.

Bojan Suđić is equally successful as a coral, symphonic and opera conductor.

In his rich carrier he was permanent-conductor of the RTV Choir and Symphony Orchestra, guest-conductor of the Belgrade Philharmonic and chief-conductor and General Music Director of the National Theatre Opera and Ballet in Belgrade.

Since 2001. he was a permanent-conductor of the Royal Opera in Stockholm where he conducted over hundred and fifty opera and ballet performings. Bojan Suđić was guest-touring in Russia, Germany, Greece, Belgium, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Bulgaria, Portugal, Brazil and China.

As a symphonic conductor he cooperated with many European orchestras among them the Philharmonic of Helsinki, the Novosibirsk Philharmonic, the Odense Symphony Orchestra, the Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra, as well as with the symphonic orchestras from the ex-Yugoslav region (Zagreb Philharmonic, Croatian RTV Symphony Orchestra, Macedonian Philharmonic, Rijeka Philharmonic).

In the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki he conducted several performances within the regular season as well as the Gala concert on occasion of the New Millennium.

He presented himself to the audience of Athens Festival as the conductor of Bizet’s “Carmen” and at the Festival in Wiesbaden with Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake” with ensembles of the Swedish Royal Opera and Ballet from Stockholm.

In 2005. he became Chief Conductor/Artistic Director of the RTV Music Production completing his long-term successful cooperation with this house.

Great number of concerts and recordings with ensembles of the RTV Music Production is the testimony of that cooperation. In the same year he started his pedagogy activity, becoming a professor of conducting at the Faculty of Music Art in Belgrade.

The Symphony Orchestra, focused on its main course of duty, which is performing and recording music for the needs of RTS radio and TV programs, also continuously performs in public concerts in the country and abroad.

The individuality of the Orchestra activity is based on a careful repertoire policy with precise selection of programs. The two most vivid capacities of these programs are reflected primarily in performance of complex compositions of international orchestra literature, classical epoch and contemporary music, capital oratorios realized together with the RTS Choir, as well as in continuous performance of most important works of domestic musical heritage and of contemporary Serbian composers.

Throughout the years the Orchestra was pursuing this exceptional mission without making any concessions of appealing to the widest audience which is not always willing to listen to unfamiliar sounds and modern expressions. This would be the exact reason why performances of this Orchestra have during the concert seasons and on tours abroad and in the territory of former Yugoslavia (Summer games in Dubrovnik, Zagreb Biennale, Opatija tribune, BEMUS, Days of Mokranjac) have given invaluable contribution to promotion of national music.

Symphony Orchestra of the Serbian Broadcasting Corporation was founded back in 1937, and its first conductors and founding fathers were Dr.Vojislav Vučković and Mihajlo Vukdragović.

Nowadays, the Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Orchestra is maestro Bojan Sudjic, who is also Chief Conductor of all 7 ensembles of Music Production of RTS.

Among the conductors who achieved great creations with this artistic ensemble performing the greatest and the most famous pieces of the music literature were: Igor Markevich, Zubin Mehta, Eleazar Karvayo, Efrem Kurtz, Charles Ditua, Friedrich Zaun, Lorin Mazel, Mstislav Rastropovitch, Vladimir Fedosejev, Oscar Danon, Mikis Theodorakis, Alexander Apolin, Milen Nachev and others. Excellent cooperation was also realized with chief conductors of the Orchestra, among which are Mladen Jagust, Vanco Cavdarski and Bojan Sudjic.

Prominent artists from all over the world performed as soloists with this Orchestra – Henrik Shering, Christian Feras, Uto Ugi, Valerij Klimov, Ilja Grubert, Igor Oystrach, Sreten Krstic, Jovan Kolundzija, Andre Navarra, Antonio Janigro, Mario Brunelo, Ksenija Jankovic, Kiryl Rodin, Herman Bauman, Vladimir Ashkenazi, Kendal Taylor, Nikolai Orlov, Philippe Entremon, Aldo Chiccolini, Ivo Pogorelic, Eliso Virsaladze, Aleksandar Madzar, Natasha Veljkovic, Jasminka Stanchul, Monserrat Caballe, Zinka Kunc, Galina Vishnjevska, Melanija Bugarinovic, Biserka Cvejic, Ljiljana Molnar-Talajic, Ruza Pospis-Baldani, Aleksandra Ivanovic etc.

The Symphony Orchestra had very successful tours in Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Greece, Romania and Morocco, and received very flattering reviews.

The Orchestra made a great number of studio recordings many of which were issued on LPs and CD by RTS Records Production.

One of the main artistic goals of the Orchestra is nurturing and premiere performing of Serbian national musical opus.

During three decades of Vauda’s work the choir has achieved numerous significant artistic and pedagogic results.Children from the age of 10 to 16 sing in the choir. 

At the very beginning the Choir was performing music for children by domestic and foreign authors. In time, the repertoire grew and the Choir begun to take part in serious projects including complex scores of classical music. 

With great success the Choir has performed the most significant vocal-instrumental pieces, such as “Passion by Mathew”, “Passion by John” and “Passion by Luke” by J.S. Bach, “Jean D’Arc” by A. Honeger, “Spring Symphony” by К. Penderetsky, “War Requiem” by B. Britten, “Faust’s Damnation” by H. Berlioz, etc… 

Since 1994, the choir is conducted by Snezana Despotovic. 

The RTS Children’s choir continues to partake in demanding vocal-instrumental pieces G. B. Pergolezi “Stabat Mater”, R. Kambasakovic “Requiem”, V. Rubin “Evening songs”, “Kadish Symphony” L.Bernstein and “Symphony No.8” G.Mahler. For the performance of “Liturgy” by V. Djordjevic at the “Choirs among frescoes” Festival, the choir gained a special laudation. The choir also sings in the National Theatre Opera, in G. Bizet’s “Carmen”, Puccini’s “La Boheme” and P. Huperdinke’s “Hansel and Gretchen”. 

The last two performances of RTS Children’s Choir was Athens theatre “Irodio”, Greece in 2003 and 2004 on the occasion of cultural manifestation “Children pigeons singing for peace – honoring the peace and Olympics”. The RTS Children’s choir also took part in numerous important manifestations: “Zmaj’s games for children”, “Festival of the child” in Sibenik, “Summer games of Dubrovnik”, “Children, sing with us”, “Thursday’s gatherings”, “BEMUS”, “Choirs among frescoes”. 

The Choir plays an important role in the musical life, not only in Belgrade and Serbia but abroad as well. Apart from concert activities, the choir extensively records for the needs of Serbian Broadcasting Corporation. 

The RTS Big Band was founded back in 1948.

At the very beginning the orchestra included the strings and performed as the Orchestra for Light Music.

In 1954, the strings were excluded from the Orchestra and it continued to perform as RTS Big Band until nowadays.

Throughout the years the Big Band was conducted by the two most famous Yugoslav jazz conductors and composers-arrangers: Vojislav Bubisa Simic and Zvonimir Skerl.

One of the composers and arrangers, Robert Hauber, wrote couple of hundreds arrangements for Big Band.

During 60 years of its work, the Big Band won numerous prestigious prizes and awards.

Back in 1960 RTS Big Band, at that time completely unknown orchestra, won a first prize at the first European Jazz Festival Juan les Pins held in France.

After it's first tour in 1957, the Band had concerts in almost all European countries and took part in numerous jazz festivals, performed at several UNICEF concerts (in Belgrade, Paris and Geneva) and always had exceptional reviews.

Throughout the years the Big Band cooperated with numerous internationally renowned jazz musicians (Clark Terry, Ray Charles, Johnny Griffin, Maynard Ferguson, Tony Scott, Nathan Davis, Don Byas, Ed Thigpen, Jerome Richardson, Larry Vuckovich, Ernie Wilkins, Kenny Drew, Philly Jo Jones, Thad Jones, Sal Nistico, Alvin Queen, Reggie Johnson, Edi Henderson, Shawn Monteiro, Hank Mobley, Aladar Pege, Jon Hendricks, Roy Hargroove, Joe Miković, Dusko Goykovich, Steve Gut, Brad Lealy, Diane Schuur, Ack Van Rooyen, Peter Herbolzheimer, Don Menza, Wilson de Oliveira, Jens Winter.

All Serbian jazz musicians internationally known, originated from the Big Band - Dusko Goykovich, Bora Rokovich, Mile Pavlovich, Joe Mikovich, Steve Gut. This tradition is continued with a new generation of musicians which was brought up in Big Band RTS.

Nowadays, the Big Band RTS is headed by Dragoslav Stanisavljevic-Fredi, Editor in Chief and Conductor Ivan Ilic.

Originating from the rich choral singing tradition, from the very spirit and foundation of the culture of the nation that saved it’s legends and mythology about it’s existence from oblivion through singing, the Choir of the Serbian Broadcasting Corporation appeared before audience on a concert some six decades ago and established it’s position as the leading professional vocal group, acknowledged well outside of this country’s borders.

The first steps of this ensemble were made under the leading hand of experience, the conductors Milan Bajsanski and Svetolik Pascan about whose achievements a well known critic Branko Dragutinovic wrote: ‘’The concert of the RTS Choir meant final affirmation of this, certainly the best choir group in our country. All of three consisting groups of the Choir, male, female and mixed choir have shown vocal material of extremely high sound quality, with harmonized color and homogenous sound, precise pronunciation, stability of intonation, strong rhythm and great scale of dynamic range. It is a vocal instrument technically precise and musically refined, capable of producing solid and convincing performance of the most complex choir compositions under the hand of Choir master conductor Svetolik Pascan’’./Daily Politika, April 24, 1949/.

Thirty years long and determined work of chief conductor Borivoje Simic brought the Choir to full perfection as confirmed by numerous critics’ reviews and overjoyed audiences.

Important tours of the Choir in Italy, France, Hamburg, Romania, Russia during the seventies’ of the last century provoked an avalanche of positive echoes: ‘’What a great achievement! What a performing gift! Great pleasure to listen to! …(Corriere Lombardo» - Milano)...;’’The secret of total harmony of performance...it seems to be in magnificent harmony of voices, in a refined, excellent and strong leading of the conductor…(Corriere della sera» - Milano); ’’Well nurtured sound calls for open admiration…’’ (Die Welt – Hamburg).

The successful work of the Choir also continued under the leading hands of conductors Mladen Jagust, Vladimir Kranjcevic and Bojan Sudjic.

The significant achievements of the RTS Choir also include performances of the most complex works of classical and oratorio literature of European and Serbian music (Bach’s Passions, Magificate, Handel and Hajdn’s oratorios, Passion by Luke by K. Penderecky, ’’The wedding’’ by Stravinsky, Beethoven’s Mass solemnis, Verdi’s Requiem, Brahms’s German requiem, The poems of space by LJ. Maric, P. I. Tchaikovsky’s liturgies, S. Rachmaninov and S. Mokranjac).

The Choir of Radio Television of Serbia had extraordinary successful performances on numerous tours both locally and internationally: in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Great Britain, France, FR Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Greece and Russia. The guest performance of the RTS Choir in Rome (Italy), where it performed Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem with Choir and Orchestra of St. Cecilia Academy and Mstislav Rostropovich as conductor, in 1987, merits special mention. So, does the Choir’s guest performance in Naples (Italy), where it performed Parsifal by R. Wagner, with the Teatro San Carlo Orchestra and conductor Gustav Kuhn in 1988, and also two guest performances in Spain, where it performed two capital works of Johan Sebastian Bach Christmas Oratorio and Passion by Mathew, with the Symphony Orchestra of Radio Television of Serbia in 1989, and 1991. While giving a speech on the occasion of presenting the “October Prize”, an award of the City of Belgrade given to the Serbian Broadcasting Corporation’s Mixed Choir for the concert and recording of the entire opus of Stevan Mokranjac in 1981, the composer Enrico Josif said the following: ’’The RTS Choir deserves permanent credits for solid performance and confirmation of existing values as well as for discovering and enlightening new beauties of domestic creativity. This contribution remains crucial, unavoidable, and determining for fundamental valuation of artistic works of vocal and vocal-instrumental accomplishments in our country.’’

The RTS Folk Ensemble was founded in 1981. The repertoire of the ensemble is colorful – it varies from original and composed songs, through urban songs and romances all the way to folk music of Balkan countries. This diverse repertoire and high artistic level of performance, fulfills all RTS program needs. During its work the RTS Folk Ensemble won numerous prizes and awards performing at the largest manifestations in the country and abroad.

The RTS Folk Orchestra was founded in 1934, as a small Orchestra which in time grew larger (under the leading hand of D.Obrenovic, V.Pavlovic Carevac and R.Jasarevic) and became the Grand folk orchestra.

During the years the RTS Folk Orchestra won numerous prizes and awards participating in the largest music manifestations in the country and abroad thus becoming an institution for performing of Serbian national music.

For decades the RTS Folk Orchestra was successfully nurturing Serbian national music and folklore heritage as well as the music of all other Balkan nations.

Traditionally focused on real, original music and artistic values, this renowned Orchestra consisting of outstanding soloists and orchestral musicians, under the leading hand of prominent artist, soloist on accordion-Ljubisa Pavkovic, has participated in numerous festivals, reviews, concerts, TV shows…

The Folk Orchestra participated in almost all folk festivals in Serbia: “Belgrade’s spring”, “Festival of the Culture of Youth”- Knjazevac, “Balkan Folk Fest” ( Festival of folk music of Balkan countries), MESAM, “The first accordion of Serbia”-Soko Banja, “Belgrade gathering”, The festival of folk music – Banja Luka…… Additionally, the RTS Folk Orchestra took part in numerous Radio Belgrade programs: “Selo veselo” ( Cheerful village), “Dragovanje” (Sweetness), “Karavan” (Caravan),” Autobus u pola sest” ( The 5:30 Bus), in TV shows: “ Cune i prijatelji” (Cune and friends), “Leti, leti pesmo moja mila” ( Fly, fly my dear song), “U gostima kod orkestra” (Visiting with the Orchestra).

Numerous recordings from a rich tradition of folk songs and dances, representing the core musical treasure of our nation are kept in the Sound Archive of Radio Belgrade.

The repertoire of the Folk Orchestra includes a variety of instrumental and vocal music which is performed by the most prominent soloists.

During the last fifty years, the "Kolibri" Choir has given hundreds of concerts at home and abroad, has taken part in radio dramas, and made regular appearances in television and films.
The Choir has recorded 19 single and 42 LP records, seven audiotapes, four CDs and three video tapes, all released by PGP-RTS. The Kolibri Choir's latest CD - "Kolibri planeta" - was released in December 2013. 

Exceptional artistic achievements has brought the choir a number of awards, among which are: the Diploma of Radio Belgrade for the contribution to the development of children's and youth music, the Golden Ring of the Serbian Cultural and Educational Union, Diploma of the Serbian Composer's Union for the contribution to the development of musical creativity, the "UNICEF Acknowledgement", Golden Syrian of the Radio Television of Belgrade (RTB) for the biggest yearly achievement of RTB, the "Silver Laureate Wreath" for work, the "Medal of Days of Mokranjac", the "Days of Mokranjac Award" and the "Zmaj Award". 

The Kolibri Choir has given concerts at home and abroad, took part in radio dramas, and made regular appearances on television and films. All their recordings are published by the Music Production of Serbian Radio and TV (PGP RTS). "Kolibri" performed in Bolshoi Theatre in Musorgsky's opera "Boris Godunov. Kolibri and Milica Manojlović worked with Oliver Dragojević, Bajaga, Dragan Laković, Đuza Stojiljković, Minja Subota, Tanja Bošković, Riblja Čorba, Ljubiša Simić, Kemal Monteno, Sedmorica Mladih, Tamburica 5, Bora Dugić and many other musicians, actors and artists in former Yugoslavia. 

Today the conductor of the Kolibri Choir is Ljiljana Ranđelović.