Dejan Bogdanovich comes from a family in which art has always been a way of life. His grandfather, a famous sculptor from Belgrade,  graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Paris and there met Picasso with whom a long and profound  friendship was formed. Even today it is possible to admire his monuments in the squares of many cities of the ex Yugoslavia.

From an early age Dejan showed a remarkable inclination for music and began his studies at the “Isidor Baic” school of music in his home town, Novi Sad, one of the most prestigious cultural centres of the ex Yugoslavia (Vojvodina). At the “Baic” institute he was a pupil of two well known teachers, Maestro R. Kovac and Maestro J. Furman and soon after he was accepted for the S.Z.M.T. (School for Gifted Children), the only one of its kind and under the patronage of the President of the Republic.

As a soloist of this school and at only eleven years old, Dejan Bogdanovich performed in important concert halls in Yugoslavia and in Spain, France, Germany and England and during the forthcoming years won many times the “First Prize for Young Violinists”.
At seventeen years old he performed Paganini’s first violin concerto and Mendelssohn’s E minor concerto with the Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra.

Since then he has been soloist with many symphony and chamber orchestras, in his home country and abroad ( symphony orchestras of Prague, Vienna, Belgrade, Zagreb, Sarajevo, Kuhmo, Moscow and many others).

After brilliantly passing special exams he was admitted, as the youngest pupil, to the University of Novi Sad (violin faculty). There was intense artistic activity during these university years, studying at this time with well known teachers of the Russian school such as Eugenia Cugaeva, Marina  Jasvili, Ilya Grubert and above all with Zinaida Gilels with whom the maestro had a strong connection and apart from a close professional collaboration also had a profound friendship unfortunately ending with the death of the great Russian pedagogue.

Winner of various scholarships he has worked together with exceptional artists such as N. Braining, J.J. Kantaroff, A. Balakerskaya, O. Kagan.

Study and specialization, even though very engaging,  did not impede his intensive concert activity; infact, in just two years, apart from numerous recitals with pianoforte, Dejan Bogdanovic performed violin concertos by H. Wieniawsky, N. Paganini, L.v. Beethoven (Triple concerto), W.A.Mozart, H. Vieuxtemps, M. Bruch under the baton of Lev Markiz, Igor Djadrov, Mladen Jagust, T. Ninic, M. Horvat and , when the programme permitted,  played as soloist  and directed at the same time.

In 1985, the European music year and year of Bach, Handel and Scarlatti, in Vienna a special violin competition was organized in which Dejan Bogdanovic was invited to take part along with 40 other violinists from all over the world. Excelling  in the various tests and playing Mozart’s concerto no. 5 for violin and orchestra he won, with a special mention, the first prize.

After a  touneé as soloist in the ex U.S.S.R., requested and organized by the ex Soviet Union, he had the good fortune to meet up with the world famous violinist Viktor Tretiakov and under his guidance with only three other pupils specialized at the P.I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow. Trtiakov said about him: “Dejan is a musisian of great refinement and artistry. Much of this is due to the originality and fullness of his musical ideas and to his complete control of every period in music... His deep creative feelings always communicate to me something new... Dejan is without doubt the herald of the new age of violinists.”

He has been guest artist to many international festivals including the Kuhmo International Chamber Festival (Finland), Dubrovnik Summer Festival, Portogruaro Music Festival (Italy), Festival del Veneto (Italy), “G. Mahler” Festival,  “Casals” Music Festival (France), Pays de Gex (France), Festival di Roma “Ciril and Metodie” playing with artists such as J.J. Kantaroff, A. Libermann, E.v. Kulen, K. Bogino, T. Zetmayer, O. Kagan, V. Mendelsohnn, A. Munier.

His musical repertoire is vast and goes from all forms of chamber music to contemporary music. He has played and up till today still plays in the most diverse chamber music groups, in particular with pianoforte in which he has dedicated a particular study and personal research. As a soloist he has played the most famous concertos for violin and orchestra by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelsohnn, Respighi, Saint- Saint, Paganini, Wieniawsky, P.I. Tchaikovsky, J. Sibelius, H. Vieuxtemps, and many others.

At the moment he teaches at the specialist music school in Bergamo Italy.