fact, in just two years, apart from numerous recitals with pianoforte, Bogdanovic performed violin concertos by Henryk Wieniawski, Niccolò Paganini, Ludwig van Beethoven (Triple Concerto), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Henri Vieuxtemps, Max 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. Two years later he won the first prize at the Yugoslav National Competition for Artists: this prestigious prize has only been given to 3 violinists in the last 50 years and after the transformation of the ex Yugoslavia has never again been assigned. In 1988 he was invited along with another musician, the pianist Ivo Pogorelić, to the Festival Culturale di San Cirillo and San Matteo (fathers of the Cyrillic alphabet) under the patronage of the Santo Padre, and played the first of only two concerts that were programmed for the manifestation. After a touneé as soloist in the former U.S.S.R., requested and organized by the 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. Tretiakov said about him: "Dejan is a musician 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." During these two years, he played Tchaikovsky's violin concerto in Moscow, Mozart's concerto no. 5 in Prague (Smetana Hall) and Paganini's first violin concerto in Portogruaro. On his return to his homeland he was offered the professorship of violin and at just 21 years old became the youngest teacher at the University of Novi Sad. He has been a guest artist to many international festivals including the Kuhmo International Chamber Festival (Finland), Dubrovačke ljetne igre (Croatia), Portogruaro Music