DIMITRIJE D. VASILJEVIC was born on 10th April 1985 in Belgrade.
After he completed the Elementary School of Music "Josip Slavenski" in Belgrade in 1999 he entered the High School of Music "Josip Slavenski" (Departments of Piano and Music Theory). He graduated on both above-mentioned departments in 2003. In the same year he entered The Belgrade Academy of Music at University of Arts where he graduated in March 2007..
In the summer 2002 he participated at the Summer Jazz Workshop in Vrnjacka Banja, whereas the leading lecturers were Stjepko Gut, Melba Joyce and Oscar Zenari.
In the 2000-2002 periods Dimitrije has worked as an assistant of the sound engineer in the Belgrade music sound studio «Odiseja» whereas he has collaborated with numerous eminent artists of the Belgrade music scene.
He has wide range of interest within music, while in his author compositions he is developing the synthesis of different musical streams as e.g. jazz, funk, rock, ethno, latin etc.
Since March 2002 he has been permanent member (pianist) of "The Belgrade Dixieland Orchestra". With this orchestra he has frequent performances all over Serbia and Montenegro as well as at several jazz festivals in Europe (Sweden, Hungary, Bosnia & Herzegovina). With "The Belgrade Dixieland Orchestra" he has recorded three albums published by PGP-RTS. He played a lot of times at jazz festivals in Serbia including Nishville Jazz Festival, Valjevo Jazz Festival etc…Besides, Dimitrije played for a certain period of time in the course of 2002 with The Youth Big Band of Belgrade and within small jazz bands of the «Stankovic» Jazz Department.
Dimitrije D. Vasiljevic is also founder and leader of the recently established "Neo Instinct" fusion band whose repertoire is based upon his own author compositions and arrangements.
In October 2006 Dimitrije attended a workshop organized by The Belgrade Academy of Music at University of Arts and American Embassy in Belgrade, where he successfully collaborated with two eminent USA jazz musicians Bennett Paster and Gregory Ryan.
At this moment, Dimitrije is student of the world’s most prestigious contemporary music academy “Berklee College of Music†in Boston where he is upgrading his skills in order to accomplish his musical and life goals. There he works with widely famous jazz piano teacher Ray Santisi who was mentor of many top musicians such as Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett, Makoto Ozone, Joe Zawinul, Diana Krall etc...
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