Ivana Đurić was born in 1984 in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. She is a virtuoso violin player.
Ivana started her classical music education when she was 9 years old and studied the violin in Bosnia and France. In 1996, a UNICEF film was made featuring Ivana playing Bach’s double violin concerto with the celebrated violinist Maxim Vengerov.
In her twenties, Ivana started to passionately research and arrange traditional Bosnian sevdah music.
From 2010-2014 she was a member of the National Radio-TV Orchestra and still regularly performs with them on various projects.
She first met Bosnian singer and composer Damir Imamović as a studio musician. After several years of musical collaboration and friendship, she joined his band Sevdah Takht in 2015 and appears on the group’s album “Dvojka”, which was internationally released on Glitterbeat Records in 2016.
Ivana also performed violin on Imamović’s Singer of Tales album.
Discography:
Dvojka, with Sevdah Takt (Glitterbeat Records, 2016)
Singer of Tales (Wrasse Records, 2020)
Author: Angel Romero
Angel Romero y Ruiz has dedicated his life to musical exploration. His efforts included the creation of two online portals, worldmusiccentral.org and musicasdelmundo.com. In addition, Angel is the co-founder of the Transglobal World Music Chart, a panel of world music DJs and writers that celebrates global sounds. Furthermore, he delved into the record business, producing world music studio albums and compilations. His works have appeared on Alula Records, Ellipsis Arts, Indígena Records and Music of the World.