The RTS Children’s Choir holds an important place in the music life of Belgrade and Serbia, as well as internationally. In addition to being an active concert performer, the choir also participates in the making of musical recordings for the needs of the Radio Television of Serbia.

The Children’s Choir was founded in 1947 as an ensemble within Radio Belgrade. Its founders and first conductors were Ljubomir Kocić and Srđan Barić. With Zlatan Vauda becoming its conductor in 1952, the choir was presented with defined artistic directions aimed towards the affirmation of compositions of children’s music, significant choral works as well as vocal-instrumental compositions by domestic and foreign artists. This repertoire policy has been maintained for more than seven decades worth of performance history, and has to this day also been marked by its more recent conductors, such as Amalija Milaković (1987-1993) and Snežana Despotović (born in 1994).

Throughout history, significant domestic and foreign conductors have collaborated with the choir. Some of them are Borivoje Simić, Dušan Skovran, Angel Šurev, Mirko Šouc, Živojin Zdravković, Mladen Jagušt, Oskar Danon, Stanko Jovanović, Vladimir Kranjčević, Jascha Horenstein, Børge Wagner, Vladimir Minin, Karolos Trikolidis, Stephen Barlow, Andrej Pavlič, David Porcelijn, Zubin Mehta and Bojan Sudjic.

The Choir has performed at all notable festivals in Yugoslavia and Serbia, and has also toured successfully though Europe.

Hundreds of recordings of the choir have been archived in the Sound Archive of Radio Belgrade, and many of them have been published. The ensemble continues to preserve recordings of domestic and international choral literature.

The Choir has received numerous domestic and foreign awards, as well as special awards for interpretation, including the Vojislav Ilić Award, for the authentic performance of sacred music; the Grand Prix Award at the International Competition of Children’s Choirs in Prague; the Konstantin Babić Award for its long-term promotion of children’s creativity; the Joy of Europe Award and others.

Nowadays, the RTS Children’s Choir is a modern ensemble. It follows global tendencies through its interpretations and by nurturing its repertoire which includes the most significant works of acappella domestic choral music written for children’s ensembles, and parts of the score in major vocal-instrumental works of different eras and opera works, that contain a children’s choir. The repertoire of this ensemble includes compositions of ethno, popular and film music.

Along with conductor Snežana Despotović, the RTS Children’s Choir is an active concert performer. It also participates in RTS TV shows and is present at important social events, positioning itself as a major children’s performing ensemble at the highest artistic level.