Biography

David Atanackovic was born on the 24^th of May in 1996 in Belgrade, Serbia. He obtained his elementary music education in music school Davorin Jenko at the accordion department. His formal musical training continued at music high school Josip Slavenski learning the fundamentals of music theory. Later on, he pursued academical music training at the University of Arts (Faculty of Music) in Belgrade, more specifically in the Composition department in the class of Professor Svetlana Savic. After graduating from Bachelor studies in 2019, in addition to earning many national scholarships, he was awarded as the best student in Composition department in the class of 2018/19. The specialization continued in 2020 when he graduated from Master studies on the same department earning the title of Master composer. Throughout his education, he has also earned many awards in music competitions such as:

1. Encounters of young solfeggists in Pozarevac, discipline solfeggio – two first prizes (year 2009 and 2011)
2. Republic competition in solfeggio and music theory in Belgrade, discipline solfeggio – two first prizes (year 2012 and 2014)
3. Cornelius competition in Belgrade, discipline composition – 2^nd prize (2015)
4. 2^nd international piano competition in Smederevo, discipline composition – 1^st award (2015)
5. Isidor Bajic Festival in Novi Sad, discipline piano – 1^st prize (2017)
6. Isidor Bajic Festival in Novi Sad, discipline composition – special prize for original work (2017)
7. Isidor Bajic Festival in Novi Sad, discipline composition – special prize for original work Suite for piano
8. Isidor Bajic Festival in Novi Sad, discipline piano – 1^st prize (2018)
9. Neda Depolo student award in Belgrade with the organization from Radio Belgrade 2 – awarded best radiophonic work (2022)

Many of his compositions were broadcasted on national TV and radio and performed live on events such as:

• University of Arts student’s festival on the 12^th of May in 2015 at the Belgrade City Hall (Suite for piano)
• Concerts of young authors KoMA 13 on the 24^th of December in 2016 at the Belgrade Philharmonic concert hall (Prelude for baritone and piano)
• Isidor Bajic Festival on the 13^th of May in 2017 at Isidor Bajic music school concert hall in Novi Sad (Three shadows for flute, violin and piano)
• University of Arts student’s festival on the 31^st of May in 2017 at the Belgrad Student’s cultural center (Passeggiata notturna for classical guitar)
• 9^th World Piano Conference on the 27^th of June in 2017 at Novi Sad City hall (Suite for piano)
• Concerts of young authors KoMA 14 on the 23^rd of December in 2017 at the Belgrade Philharmonic concert hall (Three shadows for flute, violin and piano)
• Contemporary classical music concert on the 24^th of March in 2018 at the Belgrade cultural center Das Boot (Suite for piano)
• 50^th Kalemegdan Dusks on the 6^th of July in 2018 at Cvijeta Zuzoric Art Pavilion (Passeggiata notturna for classical guitar)
• Multimedia performance of Penthouse on the 11^th of December in 2018 at the Student’s cultural center in Belgrade (In an abandoned room, far away for Piano Trio)
• Concerts of young authors KoMA 15 on the 22^nd of December in 2018 at the Belgrade Philharmonic concert hall (Game for soprano and three flutes)
• Kyustendil guitar festival on the 4^th of April in 2019 in Kyustendil, Bulgaria (Passeggiata notturna for classical guitar)
• Festival Flute & me on the 28^th of April in 2019 at the Blagoje Bersa concert hall in Zagreb, Croatia (Four states of mind for flute duo)
• Pannonia guitar festival on the 19^th of May in 2019 at the National Museum in Pancevo
• At the Chiesa della Santissima Trinita on the 25^th of July in 2019 in Udine, Italy
• University of Arts student’s festival on the 16^th of November in 2019 at the Student’s cultural center in Belgrade (Passeggiata notturna for classical guitar)
• Concerts of young authors KoMA 16 on the 18^th of December in 2019 at the Belgrade Philharmonic concert hall (Variations for marimba and clarinet)
• Opus tassellatum, concert of composition students on the 18^th of February in 2020 at the Belgrade Student’s cultural center (Oktagonal for string quartet and piano)
• Neda Depolo competition, Extasis for electronics performed on 20^th of September 2022 at the Radio Belgrade 2

He has also participated in the project called 63 indices of the body in 2015. On this occasion, he composed three short pieces for above-mentioned French documentary directed by Pier Giorgio de Pinto. Furthermore, he has composed music for a short student’s film called Searching for the one and short animated movie called The Hat. He is involved in contemporary as well as applied composition, freelance work in arranging and orchestration. Although his work is based in primarily music composition and production, he performed actively as a drummer and pianist at the National library in Belgrade, Culture center Das Boot, Novi Sad city hall and many more. His enrollment also spreads on attending masterclasses with eminent proffesors such as Yinam Leef, Gregori Pozniak, Mantautas Kruskauskas, Marko Nikodijevic, Dragan Buvac and many more. He was a participant and music composer in multimedia project with other students from University of Arts called Penthouse. In March of 2020, he was accepted at one of the most prestigious music colleges in the world – Berklee College of music at the Music production, technology and innovation department. He has also finished a Master’s degree in music production on the Faculty of music in Belgrade and is currently studying for PhD in music composition. He obtained valuable experience in teaching music, more specifically as a music production professor teaching subjects such as audio, MIDI, sound design, contemporary and jazz harmony at Kosta Manojlovic music school in Belgrade. He is currently working and teaching at the Faculty of music in Belgrade at the composition and music production departments. In addition to teaching, he is also helping with studio recording and mixing compositions for numerous student composers as well as producing for diverse number of ensembles at the same University. In 2023, he also participated in some of the most prestigious radiophonic work contests representing Serbia and Radio Belgrade at Karl Sczuka prize in Baden-Baden and Grand Prix in Bari, Italy. He contributed with the promotion of contemporary classical guitar compositions with his producer role on an album called “Guitarization” by classical guitarist Marija Rašić. He worked as an assistant music, sound designer and arranger for a project within Bombshell theatre in Milwaukee for the well-known musical called Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. From the year of 2024, he started his collaboration with publishers, sound effects and music libraries that specialize in providing music and sound design for media (advertisements, TV series, films and video games) such as Howling Music Group (Nashville, USA), 2496 Sound and Music (Los Angeles, USA), Atom Music Audio (Sacramento, USA), Rareform Audio (Los Angeles, USA) and more. Through the program of SGA (Serbian Gaming Association) called ‘Playing Narratives’, he had been working with colleagues from the world of animation, modeling, programming, narrative design and creative writing to create video games. Through training and support from European and domestic experts, he had learned all about how the video games are made and built valuable industry connections working on sound design and music for games ‘Odes To Istros’ and ‘Microworld’. In addition, he has been working as the Sound Designer and Composer for Astrarium Games currently working on a mobile game called ‘Temple Of Infinite Idols’ and PC game called ‘Cinderveil Manor’.