To become a professional violinist, literally from a baby you need to start practicing. We did not have that luxury “to make it to us” in the middle, hey, we’ll become musicians. No, some professions require you to dedicate them all your life, “says Andrijana Janevska, who told us the student days in the column” When I was a student … “at Faculty. mk and “Pivara Skopje “

She was awarded a scholarship for a talented student for four years. She never took the exam. She graduated with an average of 9.35, and she defended the diploma with a clean 10th. Masters degree with average 10. Our well-known talented musician Andrijana Janevska is an example of a successful student who, with great passion and love, gave all for future profession.

While studying, she had many performances as a singer and violinist, and often she overcame and failed to take exams. Her steel will and her immense love for music was a guide. She says that while studying at the Faculty of Music Arts (FMU), where she is now an assistant professor, it was most important to build her as a complete musician, because she wanted to compose, play piano, sing, and deal with science.

There was a possibility for her to study in Holland.

Since she had previously completed a low and high music school at the violin compartment, it was all the more certain that she would continue to the FMU, also on the violin. But Janevska says that what she really liked was composing. During her secondary education, she was in consultation with the professors of the composition of the FMU, Zografski and Kolarovski. At the same time she started the career of Skopje Fest 1998, and her composition was arranged by Ilija Pejovski. And he praised her as an author.

– Encouraged me, and that meant a lot to me, considering that in my family, I was the first to professionally deal with music. In other words, I did not have much confidence, I was not sure if I was good. In that period (98/99) the Internet appeared, so I immediately opened an email and sent a letter to several faculties of music in the Netherlands. Then it was my dream to live there. I received an answer from all to send my songs. I wrote two pianist miniatures and sent them. Exactly before submitting the documents for enrollment at the FMU, the dean of one of the faculties in the Netherlands appeared on the home phone. She said that they liked the compositions and that I was applied early – she tells.

Endless happiness!

– I had the opportunity to study what I love most and live in the country I dreamed about. It was a milestone in my life. However, after long conversations with the parents, I decided to stay here and submitted documents for enrollment at the Faculty of Music Arts at the department of violin – says Janevska.
Since she finished high school with an average of 5.00 and received over a dozen rewards from state violin competitions, writing itself was not a problem.

– I remember the last day I sang at the Budva Fest and I was hurrying to return to stand. The reception program was difficult, but this is normal for that compartment. I was tired and exhausted from the performance and the road, but I was already taught at this pace, given that during secondary school every second day I performed somewhere. My daily life was to study in a bus or car while I was traveling. At the very exam I had a lot of nervousness, but everything went fine and I was applied.

Professors made complete musician out of me.

Andrijana was an exemplary and regular student. She was only absent when she went on tour. However, it was within the allowed leave.
– One of my favorite subjects was my harmony with Prof. Zivojin Glisic, who was considered the most stout but the most proficient professor. With him I was 10 and it was for me graduation. The worst I was in the case of solfage, so Professor Blagoj Tsanev sent me to a state competition in the first year, which I won 100 points. That meant a special first prize in competition with students from all over Macedonia and from all departments, Janevska tells.

All the professors were dear to her because she learned a lot from all. He says that they are grateful for having made a complete musician.
– Of the subjects that were not musical, my favorite was the philosophy of Prof. Denko Skalovski and psychology with professor Blagoj Janakov. Simply, I enjoyed their lessons! And the violin professors Zoran Dimitrovski and Ljubisa Kirovski are guilty of truly loving the violin and I did not regret any moment that I enrolled at the FMU.

Some professions require you to dedicate your life to them.

He will also study after friendship with his colleagues. He says that all of the FMU were literally knowing about themselves. At that time all FMU students had completed a lower and upper secondary school.
– In fact we were the same children, those who for 6-7 years studied the first notes and those who were colleagues at the faculty. With most of them today we are colleagues in the MOB, which we say, we know all our lives. That’s why musician-classics should be even more appreciated! For most professions (without underestimating it!) A university is 4, 5, 6 years old. But, in order to become a professional violinist, literally from a baby you need to start practicing. We did not have that luxury “to make it to us” in the middle, hey, we’ll become musicians. No, some professions require you to dedicate your life to them – says Janevska.

She started her studies on October 1, 2000, and graduated on September 30, 2004. For the diploma, besides the other works, she performed the violin and orchestra “Scottish Fantasy” by Max Broch.
– It was a huge challenge for me because no one in Macedonia had played it before, and it’s a very difficult and complex piece. With Professor Ljubisa Kirovski we worked for a year. At the exam I did not have any venom at all, on the contrary, I could hardly wait for the commission to come to play. Anyone who plays classical music knows how to exercise. There is no improvisation. After so many years of playing, for the first time I felt safe, I played great and the committee evaluated me with 10 – tells Janevska.

She then went on to study postgraduate studies in music teaching methodology (Department of Music Theory and Pedagogy), where she was professor Victoria Kolarovska – Hmurja. In that period, she devoted more to science.

– I participated in several conferences with my own research presentations. Masters degree with an average of 10.
I perceive the eventual failure of the student as my personal.

Janevska did not sit down with her hands folded, she studied. On the contrary, during that period she was very active on the stage and says literally every second day she performed somewhere. During the student life sung songs: “Tvoeto pismo, moja biblija”, “Nostalgija”, “Svoja na svoeto”, “Ime ti e adresa” with Marija Stojanovski,” Den po den” with Vrchak. I was torn from the performances, but I did not allow it to affect the studies. When I was a third year at university, I decided to try part-time playing in the MOB’s orchestra. I went to audition and gave me a chance. Somehow, I found myself there. I enjoyed the performances by Toska, Boemi, Carmen, Traviata … In fact, playing at the MOB gave me the opportunity to introduce myself to the scores of those masterpieces. One is when you listen to the work, but quite another when you play it. You are in it, you listen to all the sections written by the composer. It helped me a lot in composing and arranging, “she says.

Since that year she has remained to play at MOB for 16 years. Since 2007 she has been regularly employed as the first violin. Janevska returned to the faculty again, but this time as an assistant professor of Solo singing – popular genres and a group of subjects in the field of popular genres.

– Sometimes when I look at the building from afar, I wonder if I have spent more time there or at home. Exactly 30 years I go in and out on the same doors every day. That building is my second home. Now, every day I meet with the professors who taught me, and I am really proud to be a part of the staff of this institution.

Janevska enjoys working with students. He says he is trying to get the best out of them and hopes he succeeds in doing so.
– It’s easy not to give a signature or push the student to the exam. It’s a lot harder for a teacher to challenge him to come regularly to lectures and to have knowledge so that he does not come to a situation that he does not take a signature or fall for the exam! I see the eventual failure of the student as my personal failure and that is why I try to find a solution to any problem at all – ends Janevska.