Jelena Janković-Beguš, Research Associate, has been employed as an editor and producer of the art music program at the Belgrade Festivals’ Center (CEBEF) since 2014. In addition to her notable scientific research results, thanks to which in 2023 the Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation awarded her a scientific rank (initiated by the Scientific Council of the Institute of Musicology SASA), she has served as an expert of the European Commission for the evaluation of projects within the Creative Europe and Horizon programs.
She defended her doctoral dissertation on 27 June 2022 at the Department of Musicology of the Faculty of Music in Belgrade. She completed her bachelor’s studies in musicology in 1999 at the same department, and in 2006, she obtained her master’s degree at the University of Arts in Belgrade at the UNESCO Department – Interdisciplinary program Cultural Policy and Management: Interculturalism and Mediation in the Balkans, simultaneously obtaining a master’s degree from the Université Lumière Lyon 2 (France). As a recipient of a scholarship from the Government of France, she spent a three-month internship at the National Opera in Lyon, from October to December 2004. The second time she was a scholarship recipient of the Government of France, in the academic year 2009/2010, she obtained a Master 2 degree from the Université Paris Dauphine in the field of the management of cultural institutions. She also trained in the field of cultural management at seminars in Austria and Germany.
Jelena Janković-Beguš’s primary field of scientific interest is interdisciplinary research of contemporary Serbian and European music and its reception in domestic and international frameworks, as well as the analysis of art festivals and institutions. She has published over thirty original scientific studies and a dozen reviews in international and national journals and edited
books. She serves as a reviewer of international musicological journals. She was the editor and co-editor of collections published by the Serbian Musicological Society (of which she has been a member since its foundation), as well as many other publications (catalogs, program booklets). She is currently preparing a monograph on the Serbian composer and academician Vlastimir Trajković. She has participated in international scientific congresses and conferences in Serbia and abroad (Switzerland, France, Belgium, Spain, Greece, Slovenia, Bulgaria).
