Svetislav Bozic

BELGRADE - The Assembly of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU) elected astronomer Zoran Knezevic as its new president on Thursday.

Seventy-five assembly members voted for Knezevic, while his rival, composer Svetislav Bozic, garnered 33 votes.

Pianists are at the forefront of the programme at Serbia's longest-running music festival this year, with two Russian virtuosos - Boris Berezovsky and Dmitri Masleev - announced as headliners.

BEMUS, Belgrade's most prominent and important classical music festival, will be entering its 47th year with an exciting array of performers from all over the world.

BELGRADE - The 13th international harp festival will be held from June 14 to 22 and in the course of the nine festival days, eight concerts will he staged at six different locations, the Serbian Harp Association announced.