Musical education in Prijedor began in 1955 within "elementary music school". 85 pupils enrolled the first generation: 73 attending the department of piano and 13 the department of violin.
The school was opened during the period of strong development of iron mine in Ljubija, when mining technology staff, particularly from Czechoslovakia, was arriving to Prijedor, with their families.

New inhabitants of Prijedor got interested in what this city was offering to children apart from the regular education.
"Then, in joke, I said to an engineer - we have a music school". "He came to work in Prijedor", remembers that period Milan Vrhovac, although the school itself hadn't begun with its activities.
The initiators of music school foundation were: Milan Vrhovac, Savo Balaban, Mehmedalija Radaslic and Srecko Katavic.
The regular teaching initiated on October 3rd 1955. In the years that followed the number of pupils enrolled was increasing, as well as teachers and musical instruments.
In 1959 the school changes its title into "The school for musical education" and in 1994 the school expands its activities on secondary musical education as well.

Nowadays school is called "SECONDARY AND ELEMENTARY MUSIC SCHOOL" PRIJEDOR.
In school year 2001/2002 there have been 329 pupils enrolled, in preliminary classes as well as in various departments such as piano, guitar, accordion, violine, flute, clarinet and trumpet. The secondary school is attended by 60 pupils in departments of theory, piano, accordion, strings and department of guitar.
In addition to listed departments since the school year 2001/2002 there has been introduced a preliminary department of voice.
The instruction in the music school is performed by 20 full-time lecturers and 16 associates. The school is attended by children from different nationalities. The instruction is performed by 5 teachers of non-serb nationality, and 3 other teachers from the mixed marriages.
The school today is the carrier of cultural events in the community, where through programmes of its pupils, presents concerts of various guest artist as well.
With their musical performance the pupils supplement the art exhibitions, literary evenings, book presentations and other various events in organization of the municipality.
The music school regularly takes part in state competitions. By the number of prizes taken we are holding the second position ( right behind the music school from Banjaluka) from 12 school existing in Republic of Srpska.
From 4 generations of our graduates there are 14 of them who today are attending the academies of music.
In the school there is a choir of pupils of elementary school called "small choir", mixed orchestra, and choir of pupils attending the secondary school and great number of chamber music ensembles.

The today's building of music school was built in the middle of 19th century. Since it wasn't built for purpores it's being used today, classrooms for performing individual instruction were adapted by using partition walls. Ceilings are leaned on the wooden beams, which bound to crush due to aging.
The basics of musical activities are the hall for rehearsal and concerts. The internal classes of our pupils are attended by minimum 50 listeners.
The shortage of working space and wish for providing quality instruction and performance opportunities led the employees of this educational institution to go into a realization of construction of a concert hall with a renewal of the present building as well.
The proposal of the project is the work of the firm "POLIS" ( project, equipping and supervising during the realization of the project) from Banjaluka, made by Mrs Miomirka Dragomirovic - Trbic, Dipl. Arch.

What do the school and the community gain by construction of a concert hall?

The concert activity in Prijedor barely exists, because of lack of proper space and equipment for it.
Annualy sometimes there is only 1 concert to be presented. By constructing the hall of concert type the conditions for realization of more frequent musical performances would be created, which would general cultural activity of our community elevate on a more appropriate level. Besides the common and wider interest for the community of Prijedor, it represents a great need for regular rehearsal and concerts of the music school itself.

The hall is imagined as annexe to the existiting structure. It would be used, besides the concerts activities, for the scopes of various culturul activities in the community ( book presentation, art exhibitions, literary evenings, meetings).
New building would also content a large number of classrooms for individual instruction, by which the working space for music teaching would be enlarged.
Today, this space is a bit larger than 1sqm per pupil. Within the project of construction of the new building, the renewal of the existing building would be performed also by which its bigger functionality would be reached.

Therefore, in this occasion we invite all the music lovers and friends of the Musical School in Prijedor, able to materially support the construction of the CONCERT HALL to contact the school management.
By your contribution you will make possible the creation of better conditions for the work of the music school itself, and elevation of general musical culture in the municipality of Prijedor as well.
The Head Master of the School:
Professor Gojko Radenovic, born in 1954. Secondary music school, department of GUITAR completed in Split and Maribor, while the Musical Studies department /Pedagogy - Theory in Split. As a guitar teacher he worked in the music school in Šibenik by 1990, and since that year till now he has been working in SOMŠ in Prijedor.

DEPARTMENTS:

PIANO/ACCORDION/GUITAR/STRINGS/WOODWIND/THEORY/VOICE

PROFESSORS-TEACHERS

PIANO

- RAĐENOVIC JASNA
- BALABAN RAJKO
- POPOV MIRJANA
- TRBIC RADMILA
- GLIGOROV IGOR
- JOKIC ANDJELKA
- BAKAJ ZORA
- PRANIC LANA

ACCORDION

- NOVAKOVIC ALJOŠA
- ĐORĐEVIC NATAŠA
- ŠARAC LJILJANA
- POPADIC NATAŠA
- GRUBACIC VIOLETA

GUITAR

- VUJASINOVIC NIKOLA
- RAĐENOVIC GOJKO
- ŠAROVIC DEJAN
- MOTL IGOR
VIOLINE
- JORDAN ZDENKO
- HAĐŽIC BILJANA

FLUTE

- TRBIC RADMILA

CLARINET

- BALAC SLOBODAN

TRUMPET

- DUMNIC ŠCEPAN

VOICE experimental department

- JOKIC ANĐELKA

THEORY

- ADAMOVIC MLADEN
- POPOV MIRJANA
- ĐORĐEVIC NATAŠA
- JOKIC ANĐELKA
- GLIGOROV IGOR
- JOSIFOSKI PETAR
- KATARĐŽIC ISMET
- MILJATOVIC MARINKO

GENERAL SUBJECT

- KECA ZORKA
- ĐURICIC SNJEŽANA
- LICANIN VLADIMIR
- SIMATOVIC SLOBODAN
- KOLAJIC VJEKOSLAV
- BIJELIC RADMILA
- RADA KOROLIJA
- ANTIC STOJADIN
- ŠUŠIC MILUŠA
- RAJKO SENIC
- ŠUŠIC MILUŠA

ENROLLMENT IN SCHOOL

The entrance examination for enrollement in the ELEMENTARY music school is scheduled for the beginning of June and the second entrance examination period for the middle of August.
The entrance examination includes the evaluation of elementary music skills ( hearing, rhythm, memorization).
The entrance examination for enrollment in the SECONDARY music school is scheduled for the middle of June and August ( in accordance with open competition decreed by Ministry of Republic of Srpska).
The entrance examination includes the exams in SOLFEGGIO with musical theory for those taking courses in theory and major ( INSTRUMENT) for instrumentalists.
The accepted pupils are to be enrolled at the end of June, that is August.

For all further details please contact the following phone number 051/ 240 091

COMPETITIONS

At the state competition of pupils of music schools held April 6th 2002 in Gradiska, our pupils won TWO FIRST prizes :
VUKADINOVIC SRDJAN, ACCORDION I category
RADJENOVIC ALEKSANDAR, GUITAR III category
EIGHT (8) SECOND PRIZES; NINE (9) THIRD PRIZES AND ONE PRAISE.

FORMER PUPILS
Now students of the Art Academy in Novi Sad, Kragujevac and Banjaluka

1. MOTL IGOR - guitar IV year
2. TOPIC VANJA - theory and conducting IV year
3. BAKAJ ANA - piano III year
4. KURTOVIC BORJANA - piano III year
5. HRVACANIN SNJEŽANA - flute III year
6. HRVACANIN DRAGAN - accordion III year
7. MIRKOVIC DRAGAN - accordion III year
8. KESAR GORAN - theory III year
9. MRŠIC VESNA - theory III year
10. JOKIC NATAŠA - guitar II year
11. BURSAC MELITA - theory II year
12. GRBIC DANILO - theory II year
13. TOPIC TIJANA - theory I year
14. TIMARAC TIJANA - theory I year
15. PAVIC JELENA - theory I year
16. SAVANOVIC BOJAN - theory I year