"Luxurious and inspired" criticism followed one of Milica Jelača Jovanović's concerts.
This "pianist of great energy and charisma" gave numerous recitals as a soloist and chamber musician in America, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Czech Republic, France, Italy, Canada, Republic of North Macedonia, Germany, Poland, Romania and Russia, where, among others, she had and performances as part of the Dame Myra Hess Memorial concert cycles in Chicago, Les AMIS in Toronto, the International Piano Cycle in Orlando, Florida, as well as at the International Music Festival "Vrnjci" in 2022, Novi Sad Music Summer 2006, the 31st BEMUS and 31st Mokranjac's days.
She performed as a soloist with the Seattle Philharmonic, Whatcom Symphony, Bainbridge Symphony, Sioux City Symphony and Western Symphony Orchestra, as well as with the orchestras of the Radio Television of Serbia, the Yugoslav Army and the Baroque Ensemble "Josip Slavenski" in concerts by Bach, Mozart, Chopin, Schumann, Price and Prokofiev (First, Second, Third). In 2018, she opened the Concert Season of the Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra at Benaroya Hall, Seattle as a soloist in the Chopin E Minor Concerto, and in 2023 the Bainbridge Symphony Season as a soloist in the Florence Price Concerto.
She recorded for radio and television stations in the USA, Serbia, Romania and Russia, and in 2003 her artistic profile appeared in Gordana Krajačić's book, "Musical Pinakoteka", as well as in 2022 in the book "Musical Lighthouse" by the same author. In 2006, she organized the Schumann Madness Festival in Bellingham, USA, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Schumann's death, where she gave several solo and chamber recitals, and performed as a soloist with an orchestra. Her CD entitled "Bright Moods" was released in 2012 by MSR Classics (USA), on which the critic commented that "under her fingers, every phrase is fresh and interesting" and called her "a pianist with an extraordinary character....very sensitive".
Born in Belgrade, in a family of musicians, she gave her first recital at the age of eight. After studying in Belgrade, she received her master's degree at the Moscow State Conservatory "Tchaikovsky" with pianists Mihail Voskresensky and Elena Kuznetsova, and her doctorate at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor (USA), under the mentorship of pianist and composer Logan Skelton. He is currently a full professor of piano and head of the piano department at Western Washington University in Bellingham (USA).
She has held numerous masterclasses and workshops for piano pedagogues and students, including the annual convention of the Washington State Music Educators Association (WSMTA), nationally and regionally, and is a regular guest at the annual regular programs of many branches of this Association. She has also served on the juries of numerous piano competitions in the US and Canada, such as the MTNA Performance Competitions, the Ladies Musical Club of Seattle's Frances Walton National Music Competition, the Vancouver Women's Musical Society Piano Scholarship Competition in Canada, the Global Outstanding Chinese Artists Association (GOCAA), International Piano Competition in Vancouver, Canada, the US Open Piano Competition in Oakland, California, and the Chopin Northwest Festival in Seattle.
