Belgrade Soul Sextet is a project of excellent graduate musicians, founded in 2017 and led by Nikola Mijajlović, Assistant Professor of Trumpet at the The University of Montenegro Music Academy. The ensemble features Nenad Ljubenović, accordion professor, Dr. Stevan Bata Kovačević, double bassist and university lecturer, Bojan Mladenović, pianist and professor, Dmitri Ivanilov, percussionist, and Dr. Jelena Jakovljević, vocalist and Associate Professor of Flute at the Faculty of Arts in Niš.

The artists gathered around the same idea – to connect three different musical genres through the sevdah, their common thread. The result is a unique 90-minute three-part concert, composed of the most popular music pieces, and symbolically titled Three sevdahs. Belgrade Soul Sextet performs original music arrangements that combine solo performance in a classical manner with evergreen tunes of jazz, tango, and traditional Balkan music – sevdah.

Tango, jazz, and sevdah are genres that share many similarities; sevdah is a state of mind and body, charged with delight and deep sorrow at the same time. A fusion of these genres that speaks to the soul of the listener is presented through the most delicate jazz and tango instrumental pieces, performed in the first two parts of the concert, and the final part of the concert begins with "Ah, što ćemo ljubav kriti", one of the most famous sevdalinka songs.

Belgrade Soul Sextet has performed numerous successful concerts and collaborated with other artists both in Serbia and abroad. An outstanding performance by the ensemble was delivered at the Musica Riva Festival in Riva del Garda, Italy in 2019. Belgrade Soul Sextet continues to gain recognition and performs in Serbian concert halls and at European festivals, presenting thrilling arrangements of traditional European and Balkan music through the prism of art music.