Vuk Wolkov-Popovic is a Serbian-Danish conductor whose most significant engagement has been his collaboration with the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, ongoing since October 2022. In the Belgrade Philharmonic Hall, he has conducted children's concerts such as Hello, We Are the Orchestra and The Drawn Orchestra, as well as Concerts for Babies, during the 2022/23, 2023/24 and 2024/25 seasons. He also served as assistant conductor to Maestro Gabriel Feltz in the concert performance of Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, presented by the Belgrade Philharmonic with soloists.
In May 2025, he made his debut with the RTS Symphony Orchestra in the Great Hall of Kolarac Endowment. At the beginning of 2022, he founded the Belgrade Youth Orchestra (BEOM), which has performed in numerous venues including the Student Cultural Centre, the Jewish Community Hall, the Russian House and Kolarac Endowment. With the orchestra, he has performed repertoire ranging from Vivaldi and Beethoven to Rachmaninoff, while also championing contemporary Serbian composers such as Marko Vesic, Damjan Jovicin and Nikoleta Radulovic. He has also collaborated with the Tango Jazz Quartet from Argentina.
At the invitation of the Russian Concert Agency, under the artistic direction of Yuri Bashmet, he appeared with BEOM at the Second World Festival of Youth Symphony Orchestras within the Territory of the Future: Moscow 2030 forum-festival, on the open-air stage of Zaryadye Concert Hall. As part of the KoMA Festival in 2023, he conducted Ensemble Metamorfozis in the premiere of Melophobia by composer Anja Randelovic.
From 2021 to 2023, he took part in the international project Opera: Past, Present, Perfect, led by the Music Opera Theatre Organisation (MOTO). Within this project, he worked as an assistant conductor during the preparation of operas including the first Serbian opera At Dawn by Stanislav Binicki, and also conducted the first Serbian opera for children, Children's Room by Milenko Zivkovic.
An important part of his musical education includes masterclasses with artists such as Srboljub Dinic and Wolfgang Scheidt, one of the last students of Hans Swarowsky. He has also worked with Leonid Grin and participated in the Conducting Academy within the Parnu Music Festival in Estonia. Between 2009 and 2016, he was a member of the Belgrade Voice Choir under the leadership of singer-songwriter and film composer Aleksandra Kovac. He completed his undergraduate studies in conducting in 2024 and his master's studies in 2025 in the class of Professor Biljana Radovanovic Brkanovic at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade.