Zoran Erić ( / Zoran Erić, ) (born 6 October 1950) is a Serbian composer based in Belgrade. He teaches composition, orchestration, theater and film music at the Faculty of Music, University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia. Biography Zoran Erić was born on 6 October 1950 in Belgrade. He started his musical education in Karlovac, Croatia, playing piano and violin. Erić studied composition in Belgrade with Stanojlo Rajičić at the Academy of Music (now Faculty of Music). During the studies he attended international summer courses at Orff-Institute in Salzburg (1976) and Witold Lutoslawski’s master class of composition in Grožnjan (1977). He teaches at the University of Arts – Faculty of Music in Belgrade since 1976 (full-time professor of composition since 1992). He held seminars and lectures in children music creativity (Grožnjan 1979, 1980 with Milan Mihajlović), composition (Conservatory Eiresia, Athens 1996, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London 2000, Summer School Sombor 2009) and electronic music (WUS project, FMU Belgrade 2004). Erić has been the member of juries for international competition "Premio Valentino Bucchi" (Rome), 1990, International Jeunesses Musicales Competition (1986 and 2007) as well as a selector of the festivals Music in Serbia (1987) and International Review of Composers (1994). He was Vice-Dean (Faculty of Music 1992–1998) and Vice-Rector (University of Arts 2000–2004). He is presently Head of Department of Composition (since 2007), member of the Executive Board of Serbian music copyright agency SOKOJ (since 2000) and artistic director of Belgrade Music Festival BEMUS (since 2011). Composers Ana Mihajlović, Jelena Jančić, Goran Kapetanović, Tatjana Milošević, Božidar Obradinović, Szilard Mezei, Vladimir Pejković, Ivana Ognjanović and Branka Popović, among others have studied in Erić’s class. He has also worked with Aleksandra Vrebalov, Ana Sokolović, Anja Đorđević, Marko Nikodijević, Ivan Brkljačić, Svetlana Savić and Milan Aleksić. Erić's music has been performed widely across the world at major festivals and venues including Prague Spring International Music Festival, City of London Festival, Dubrovnik Summer Festival, Ohrid Summer Festival, Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts (ISEA 94), BEMUS, ISCM World Music Days, Barbican Hall, Cankarjev dom (Ljubljana), Rector's Palace Atrium (Dubrovnik), Konserthuset (Stockholm), Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall (Zagreb), Kammermusiksaal der Berliner Philharmoniker, Church of St. Sophia (Ohrid), Wigmore Hall, De Ijsbreker, Sibelius Academy Chamber Music Hall (Helsinki), etc. by international artists including Belgrade Strings, St. George Strings, Irish Chamber Orchestra, Kreisler Strings, Zagreb Soloists, 12 Cellisten der Berliner Philharmoniker, Camerata Serbica, Collegium musicum female choir, Belgrade