MIRKO ISAESKI

Serbia

(1952) finished secondary music school in Skopje, and his graduate and post-graduate studies at the Faculty of Music Arts in Belgrade in the class of Professor Ivan Tursić. In 1976 he became first bassoonist of the Belgrade Opera House, and between 1978 and 1994 he is the solo bassoonist of Serbian Radio Television Symphonic Orchestra. He has performed as a soloist and a chamber musician and held successful concerts both in Serbia and abroad. He has collaborated with numerous orchestras in Belgrade, Novi Sad, Podgorica, Dubrovnik and Skopje. He recorded a CD with the works of Mozart and Vivaldi and he also published a collection of bassoon compositions which is used as teaching material in music schools. Since 1989 he has been teaching in music schools "Mokranjac", "Josip Slavenski" and "Davorin Jenko" in Belgrade and music school "Jovan Bandur" in Pančevo.

He is also starting the first bassoon class at the University in Niš. In 1994 Mirko Isaeski was elected Docent for bassoon at the Faculty of Music Arts in Belgrade and in 2006 he became a Full Professor. Since 2004 he has been working at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, and he is also teaching post-graduate students at the Faculty of Music Arts in Skopje. His students perform in many competitions, both in Serbia and abroad and have so far won over sixty first prizes and special awards. He has received many awards for his long and successful pedagogical work, such as: the Certificate of Appreciation of the Faculty of Music Arts in Belgrade for extraordinary services and contribution to the development of the faculty; the Diploma of the Association of Musical and Ballet Pedagogues of Serbia for his teaching results over the years; the Certificate of Appreciation of the music school "Mokranjac" in Belgrade for extraordinary results in his academic work; the Silver Medal of the University of Arts in Belgrade for his extraordinarily successful work at the Faculty of Music Arts in Belgrade.