Milan Mihajlović (1945) retired (2010) as a full professor of composition at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade (then he also received a national award).
He is one of the founders of the International Tribune of Composers (1992), whose director he was until 2002. He was the president of the Association of Composers of Serbia (1987−2002), secretary and then head of the Department of Music Theory at the Belgrade Faculty of Music and, from 2002 to 2009, dean of the Faculty.
He is the recipient of many awards for his creativity - the "Stevan Hristić" award (1970), the award of the Belgrade Music Festival (1972), the October Award of the City of Belgrade (1984), the first awards at the International Tribune of Composers (1992 and 1996), the award " Stevan Mokranjac" (1994) and Belgrade City Awards (2003). Mihajlović's works have been performed in the country and abroad - in halls such as the Tonhalle in Zurich, the small hall of Carnegie Hall in New York, the Berlin Philharmonic Hall, Stanway Hall in London, the Conservatory Hall in Sydney, the Opera Hall in Dijon...
In 2014, he was a guest composer at the International Chamber Music Festival in Kempten (Germany), where five of his compositions were performed. In 2015, "Revolt" was premiered in Germany, and in 2016, he was a guest composer at the festival in Dijon (France), where five of his compositions were performed.
In 2017, "Melancholy" was performed at an important festival in Finland, and he was also a guest of the Academy of Music in Pula, where a video recording of his author's concert with the Belgrade Philharmonic was shown and commented on.
His works are printed in Germany, and an author's CD was recorded with the Brandenburg State Orchestra - conductor Howard Griffiths. On that occasion, an original concert was held in the CPE Bach Cathedral (October 2018).
In 2020, he was supposed to be in Germany as a composer-in-residence in April, but due to the epidemic, that visit was postponed. In 2021, in April, four of his compositions were performed at a festival in Germany.