Vuk Wolkov Popović is a Serbian & Danish conductor. His most important engagements, thus far, have been the ones with the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra as a regular guest conductor (a total of 150 concerts with full size orchestra). These include many editions of concerts for preschoolers and younger school children such as: Hello, We Are the Orchestra , The Animated Philharmonic , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Little Stories About a Great Composer, as well as all editions of the well acclaimed Concerts for Babies, during the 2022/23, 2023/24, and 2024/25 seasons. Also worth mentioning is his role as assistant conductor to artists such as: Gabriel Feltz for preparations and a concert performance of Tristan und Isolde (choir parts, and all stage music) in February of 2025, and Kerem Hasan for a performance of Alpensinfonie (stage music) in February of 2026. In addition to all this, in January of 2026 he prepared the orchestra for their India tour to Mumbai with Maestro Zubin Mehta.
In May of 2025, he debuted with the RTS (Radio Television of Serbia) Symphony Orchestra at the Kolarac Concert Hall.
He also collaborated with the Western Balkans Youth Orchestra (WBYO) as assistant conductor on the Western Balkans meet Beethoven - \'24/\'25 winter tour.
An important part of Vuk’s career is his work with the Belgrade Youth Orchestra, which he founded at the beginning of 2022. Together with the BYO, he performed in all of Belgrade’s concert halls, conducting more than 20 concerts, encompassing a diverse repertoire of works from Vivaldi, Beethoven, and Rachmaninoff to contemporary Serbian composers, as well as, collaborating with other local ensembles such as the Metamorphosis Chamber Orchestra, and international ones such as the Tango Jazz Quartet from Argentina.
As a member of the: Opera: Past, Present, Perfect, project (co-funded by the EU), which was run by MOTO (Music Opera Theater Organization) he assumed the role of assistant conductor in the preparation of choral parts for Stanislav Binički\'s first Serbian opera, At Dawn (Na uranku), as well as the premier of the first Serbian children\'s opera The Children’s Room (Dečja soba) by Milenko Živković, premiered at the BEMUS festival in 2021. He would subsequently conduct multiple productions of this opera in 2022.
An invaluable part of Vuk’s musical journey are the masterclasses he attended that were held by Srboljub Dinić and Wolfgang Scheidt (one of the last students of Hans Swarowsky) whom he’d later continue working with privately in Vienna. He also participated in the masterclass of Leonid Grin in addition to attending the Järvi conducting academy at the Pärnu Music Festival in Estonia.
Between 2009 and 2016, he was a member of the Belgrade Voice (Beogradski Glas) choir under the leadership of singer-songwriter and film composer Aleksandra Kovač.
He began studying conducting at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade in 2019, earning both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in the class of Prof. Biljana Radovanović Brkanović.