Divna LjubojeviÃÂ (), sometimes called by just her first name, Divna, is a Serbian singer and conductor of Orthodox Christian sacred music in various languages. She is the conductor and artistic director of the Melodi ensemble (Serbian: ), a "choir and studio for spiritual music". which she founded with a group of her friends.
Lykourgos Angelopoulos, professor at the School of Byzantine Chant at the Conservatory of Athens, and the founder and director of the Greek Byzantine Choir, has described her as having one of the purest voices he has ever heard.
LjubojeviÃÂ was born in 1970 in Belgrade, Serbia, then part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. She studied at the Mokranjac Music School and later graduated from the Academy of Arts at the University of Novi Sad in Novi Sad. From the age of ten, she was trained in singing by the sisters of Vavedenje (Serbian: , Presentation of the Holy Theotokos) monastery, near Belgrade. She developed a unique style derived from Karlovatz singing.
In 1988, the eighteen-year-old LjubojeviÃÂ began conducting the Mokranjac choir. Between 1989 and 1991 she conducted the First Belgrade Singing Society, founded in 1853, as the youngest conductor in its history. LjubojeviÃÂ has been also an active teacher of church and choral singing in France, the Netherlands and England. In 1991, she founded the Melodi ensemble, composed of 10 singers. Today, Ljubojevic and Melodi are popular performers, touring worldwide but mostly in Eastern and Western Europe, where they have given more than 600 concerts.
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