Ana Nedeljković Branković completed postgraduate studies at the Music Academy in Belgrade, and together with her husband Aleksandar Branković, arrived down under in 2017. She became involved in the work of Oplenac folklore group in Australia. She presents Serbs to their compatriots through a singing group that sings original Serbian folk songs from all Serbian countries, without musical aids, and several years ago they delighted the audience at the Sydney Opera House.

‘I am an ethnomusicologist by profession and live and work in Adelaide, South Australia. In the Oplenac folklore group, I lead a male and female singing group, and this year we are celebrating our sixth anniversary. On our fifth anniversary, we had a small celebration. In those five years, we had several different concerts, some in Australia, some in Serbia, so we achieved notable results.

We visited Serbia in 2018, and had a tour with folklore and singing groups and an all-evening concert at the Ethnographic Museum, which was very successful.

The audience received our entire work very well, and the singers were extremely happy and proud for having the opportunity to perform in Serbia. I must say that we are the most proud of the concert at the Sydney Opera House.

When I told them that we would be performing at the Sydney Opera House, it came as a complete shock to them. For me, it was one of the most beautiful concerts’, says the ethnomusicologist Ana Nedeljković Branković.

Source: Radio Television of Serbia

Photo: Oplenac Adelaide