After graduation at the Musicology and History of Arts in Zagreb in Croatia, she did postgraduate studies of Early and Contemporary Music at London University in the United Kingdom.[1] Donata started as student lecturer and broadcaster at Radio Zagreb and continued as Music Editor of Stereorama programme on Radio Belgrade. In 1965 she was invited to start the Radio Beograd Third Programme (music section) as its first musicologist,[1][2] and in 1983 its stereo weekend Music Programme Stereorama.[3]
The composer, writer and artist Dušan Radić (1929-2010) in his book Tragovi balkanske vrleti-vreme-život-muzika (2007) dedicated a whole section (p.107-114) to Donata Premeru and her broadcast programme Music Matters.[4] For after 20 years of his absence from the musical scene, she interrupted this silence and invited him in her radio programme regarding his 75th birthday on April 10, 2004.
In 2016, book Film and Music – Temptations of great composers – based on 14 radio programmes – was published with her guest, Borislav Stojkov.[3]
Honours and awards
1965, 1st Prize on Radio Belgrade
1990, The Journalistic Golden Microphone of Radio Belgrade for 25 Years of Highest Achievements in Broadcasting Media given the first time to a Music Editor
2006, Acknowledgement and Diploma from the GitarArt festival as to a professional promoter in 2014.
In daily newspapers: Politika, Borba, Naša Borba, Danas
In magazines: OKO (Zagreb), Il mondo della musica (Rome) & The C.E.J. Newsletter (EU Community of Journalists) – in Italian, New Moment Magazine (London) and TEMPO a Quarterly Review of Modern Music (Cambridge, UK)
III Programme, Magazine of Radio Belgrade, Projekat, Pozorište (Novi Sad), Reč, Pro Femina, Pro Musica, Continuo, Novi Zvuk/New Sound, Teatron, Muzikologija, Književnost, Književni magazin, Koraci, Muzika klasika
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