Aleksandar Sedlar (1982) is one of the most promising and the most successful Serbian composers. His works have been performed all over Europe, in America, Australia and Japan, always with great success and positive reactions by both the public and the critics. Sedlar graduated composition in 2006 at Belgrade Faculty of Music Art, as the valedictorian in the class of prof. Vlastimir Trajković. The same year, he was the laureate of the Stevan Hristić Fund Award. Sedlar is also a senior undergraduate at the Conducting Department, in the class of prof. Bojan Suđić. In 2007/2008, he worked as the teaching assistant and the secretary of the Composition Department at the Belgrade Faculty of Music Art. In 2013, he completed master studies in Composition at the University of Southern California (USC Thornton School of Music) in Los Angeles, in the class of prof. Donald Crockett. In January 2015, Sedlar became Associate Professor at the Faculty of Arts in Niš. The most significant pieces from his opus are: Macbeth (concerto for violin and orchestra – 2005), Elegy for Orchestra (graduation work – 2006), Idi vidi dedu! (Go see grandpa! commissioned by academic choir Collegium Musicum – 2010), Spring in Japan 2011 (commissioned by violinist Nemanja Radulović, published by DECCA Universal), Daughter of the Moon (fairytale – variations for cello, orchestra and narrator, commissioned by the conductor Lior Shambadal and Berliner Symphoniker orchestra, with premiere performance in the Berlin Philharmonic concert hall – 2014). Sedlar’s arrangements are also on new CD releases of Nemanja Radulović, Patricia Petibon and Camille Thomas, published by Deutsche Grammophon.