Career
Her specific style of performing was shaping through cooperation with some of the renowned cellists of world music scene, such as Xenia Jankovic, Stefan Popov, Mineo Hayashi, Mark Kosover, Gary Hoffman, Leonid Gorokhov, Gautier Capuçon, Christian Pierre Louisiana Marca, David Strange and many others Through her solo career, Jela was often performing original pieces written for her and adopted to her unique musical expression. The one of these was World Premiere of a piece “Black Swan” written by Aleksandar Simic, which Jela performed on the occasion of 10th anniversary of Belgrade International Cello Fest held in July 2013.
In, Jela recorded the album named “Clash” which was released by the biggest in the region and with 60 years tradition record company, PGP-RTS. Jela played eleven titles which are compositions from different genres, centuries, tastes and affinities, compositions from the time of Bach, Ravel and Brahms, until the 21st century (Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles), all arranged for solo cello and symphony orchestra, produced by famous producer Aleksandar Habich.
Album was praised by critics with sold out first edition and the video of Jimi Hendrix Purple Haze had for a young cello player, incredible 1.500.000 views. In order to perform live the music from the album “Clash”, in, Jela formed her own “Jela Cello Power Symphony Orchestra”, consisting of sixty young, skilled and classically educated musicians.
During, Jela and her orchestra had sold out tour, and in process earned them the role of official ambassadors for Belgrade in bid to become cultural capital of Europe in 2020. Their music and this appointment resulted in invitations from around the Europe for playing in different cultural manifestations of both classical and contemporary music
This award was given to Jela at the ceremony, 18 April at the National Theatre in Belgrade.
Ly, Jela is enrolled in Doctors Degree Studies at the Megatrend University, preparing with her “Jela Cello Power Symphony Orchestra” European tour and in the same time, preparing material for new album which will be released in package with Digital Video Disc in fall 2014.
