Association
"Nikola i Marica Cvejić"

The Association "Nikola and Marica Cvejić" is sad to say goodbye to Professor Đorđe Minov, one of the founders of the "Nikola Cvejić" International Competition. Professor Minov was a long-time member of the jury and the organizing team of the Competition. Georgi Minov graduated from the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, the department of solo singing in the class of professor Nikola Cvejić and conducting in the class of professor Živojin Zdravković. As a soloist, he performed on the stages of the Macedonian Opera and Ballet and the Opera of the National Theater in Belgrade in the roles of Vašek in the opera "The Bartered Bride" by Bedzih Smetana and Count Almaviva in Rossini's "The Barber of Seville". In 1971, he performed with the soloists of the Macedonian Theater Opera in a series of concerts for our emigrants in Canada and America.

From 1980, he was the conductor of the choir of the JNA Art Ensemble, today the Stanislav Binički Art Ensemble, where he remained until his retirement in 2004. In parallel with conducting, from 1975 he was also a professor of solo singing in music schools in Belgrade: "Davorin Jenko", "Dr Vojislav Vučković", "Stanković", "Mokranjac", "Josif Marinković" and the Music School "Teodor-Toša Andrejević" ” in Ruma. From 2003-2010. He was an associate professor at the Academy of Music in East Sarajevo. In 2001, he received a prestigious award from the Association of Serbian Pedagogues for his outstanding work results.

Together with his pupils and students, he won over thirty first prizes at festivals and competitions in the country and abroad and at the "Nikola Cvejić" solo singer competition in Ruma.
The laureates of this competition are his students Ana Cvetković and Jelena Rakić, as well as a large number of first-prize competitors from his class. Today, many of his pupils and students have exceptional pedagogical and artistic results.

Together with his wife Gordana Jevtović Minov, prima donna and professor, also a student of Nikola Cvejić, he made an exceptional contribution to the construction of this prestigious competition with the desire to save the figure and work of Nikola Cvejić from being forgotten.

In his work with young singers, he performed with great dedication, energy and enthusiasm, especially taking into account the nurturing of Serbian artistic heritage. He left an indelible mark in the history of Serbian vocal pedagogy.
Ostavio je neizbrisiv trag u istoriji srpske vokalne pedagogije.