Jovana Damnjanović is a Graduate Assistant in Department of Georgia State Bands at Georgia State University (Atlanta). A native of Serbia, she graduated in Flute Performance at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad and received a Master with Honors of Musical Arts. During her graduate studies in Serbia, she worked alongside with Prof. Laura Levai Aksin as an Assistant Professor. She was a Scholarship winner for International Summer Academy by the Universität für Musik and darstellende Kunst, Vienna. She was a performance award winner of SANU (Serbian Academy of Science and Arts), Privrednik, A Fest and Shumann Fest. For several years she was a principal chair in Academy of Arts Symphony Orchestra, as well as in Vojvodina Symphony Orchestra. She is also active as a chamber musician, founding flute trio “Flora”, participating in and coaching Flute Choir in City of Kragujevac and she is one of the founders of award winning trios and quartets “Vivaldi”. She is a member of Atlanta based “International Counterpoint” woodwind trio with whom she recently performed at the US Navy Band International Saxophone Symposium in Washington, D.C. She is part of a Damnjanovich & Padovan flute and piano duo with whom she was a prize winner at Great Composers Competition.

Regular attendance in masterclasses all over the Europe gave her chance in working with some of the most distinguished flutists, such as: Kersten McKall, Felix Renggli, Dejan Gavrić, Norbert Girlinger, János Bálint, Lior Eitan, Matei Corvin, Nataša Marić.

Beside classical music, she holds interests in Eastern Balkan native/folk music. She is a part of a Serbian native music and dance performing group with whom she has performed in Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, France and most of the Balkan countries.

Jovana Damnjanović performs on a Platinum plated Muramatsu flute.