THE CITY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA SLEZINGER

THE CITY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA SLEZINGER represents one of the main pillars of the musical life of Kragujevac. It was founded in 2006, in the year marking the 175th anniversary of  Knjazesko – Srpska Banda (1831), under the direction of Josif Schlesinger in Kragujevac, as a result of the undeniable need for a specific and valuable cultural and artistic role in the musical life of Kragujevac. The orchestra consists of prominent musicians from our city. The City Chamber Orchestra Schlesinger performed a large number of all-night concerts in Kragujevac, Belgrade, Smederevo, Nis, and Tivat (Montenegro). It was also part of television and radio shows (from live performances on RTS to numerous appearances on local media). Since 2011, the City Chamber Orchestra Schlesinger has been operating as one of the ensembles of the Kragujevac Music Center. The artistic director is Lazar Miletić, and concertmeister Dorota Siuda.

Polish-born violinist Dorota Siuda currently maintains an active concert schedule across Europe and the American continent. As an accomplished soloist and chamber musician, she has performed with distinguished artists such as Frans Helmerson, Christian Lindberg, Michaela Martin, Lars Anders Tomter, Antoine Tamestit, Nathalie Stutzmann, Barbara Hendricks, and Torleif Thedéen.

Among her most notable performances is her interpretation of Grażyna Bacewicz’s Violin Concerto No. 3 at Berwaldhallen in Stockholm, conducted by Christian Lindberg. She regularly collaborates with violinist Benjamin Schmid at various chamber music festivals.

She has received top prizes at numerous European and American competitions, including:

  • International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition (Poznań, Poland)
  • Yehudi Menuhin International Competition (Folkestone, UK)
  • Pasadena Violin Competition (California, USA)

Since 1994, she has served as concertmaster and leading soloist of the chamber orchestra Musica Vitae (Sweden). As a guest concertmaster and soloist, she has appeared with numerous European ensembles, including Casa da Música (Portugal), the Danish National Opera (Copenhagen), Beethoven Academy Antwerp (Belgium), Brussels Philharmonic, Ensemble Modern (Germany), MiN Ensemble (Norway), and the Arctic Philharmonic.

She completed her studies at the University of Southern California (USA) and the Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz, under the mentorship of Eberhard Feltz, Zakhar Bron, Lynn Harrell, and Sir Simon Rattle. As a pedagogue, she regularly gives masterclasses in Sweden and Poland, has taught at the Academy of Music in Wrocław, and has been a faculty member in Paipa (Colombia) as part of the Simón Bolívar Orchestra project.

For her achievements in music, she was awarded the Cultural Prize of Southern Sweden in 2010. Since 2023, she has been collaborating with the record label European Grammophone Recordings.

Since 2025, she has been the concertmaster of the City Chamber Orchestra Schlesinger.