Bruna Špiler
She performed at solo recitals and with orchestral accompaniment in Belgrade, Sarajevo, and Zagreb, but then dedicated herself completely to pedagogical work, where she achieved excellent results.
BRUNA ŠPILER, Zimić, a native of Herceg Novi, was born on June 19, 1921, and passed away on February 6, 1979. Bruna Špiler was a vocal pedagogue. She completed her vocal studies at the Music Academy in Belgrade (J. Rijavec); she gained additional education in the field of teaching methods for solo singing in Milan (Conservatorio Vervi) and Rome (Academia Santa Cecilia).
Since 1953, she worked in Sarajevo as a teacher at the Secondary Music School, and from 1955 as an assistant, later as a professor at the Sarajevo Music Academy. She became the head of the Department for Solo Singing in 1964. She performed at solo recitals and with orchestral accompaniment in Belgrade, Sarajevo, and Zagreb, but then dedicated herself completely to pedagogical work, where she achieved excellent results.
Her students include Ljiljana Molnar-Talajić, Radmila Smiljanić, Milica Zečević, Ivica Šarić, and many other well-known opera singers and pedagogues today.
Bruna Špiler is the author of the manual "The Art of Solo Singing," which was first published in 1972 and is still indispensable and valuable in mastering solo singing. A reprint edition was published during the festival in 2012, with the assessment of prima donna Radmila Smiljanić that it is "the most comprehensive textbook that all students of solo singing have been missing.
