The University of Sarajevo Music Academy is proud to announce the first BH elections for the BiH representative at the 69th Trophée mondial, organized by the Academy.

The world accordion trophy is one of the oldest and most prestigious accordion competitions in the world, to be held this year in Loulé-Algarve (Portugal), from 3 to 10 November 2019. The Music Academy, University of Sarajevo became a valid member of the world accordionist elite in 2019, and for the first time among the jury delegates from 37 countries of the world will be the delegate of the Sarajevo Academy of Music, Prof. Dr. Belma Šarančić Nahodović.

In honor of the election of BH representative for the World Trophy, on Monday, 21 October 2019 at 19.00 in the Sarajevo High Music School hall, a Gala Concert will be held at which will be selected BH representatives in the solo and chamber music categories.

Special guests of the concert will be renowned accordionists Belma Šarančić Nahodovć and Nihad Hrustanbegović, performing together a repertoire carefully selected for the occasion. In honor of the upcoming jubilee of the 250th anniversary of the birth of composer Ludwig van Beethoven, who will be celebrated worldwide in 2020, the artists will perform Allegretto from Beethoven's VII symphony, which will also represent the world's first performance of this work in an arrangement for two accordions.

The artist Nihad Hrustanbegović wrote specifically for the occasion the work In the Zen of Sirius, dedicated to the Trophée mondial competition and professor Belma Šarančić Nahodović, who will premiere these two artists at a Gala concert.

Admission to the concert is free.