Vojislav Pantić (born March 17, 1965, in Belgrade) is a mathematician, jazz critic, and promoter. He graduated from the Mathematical Gymnasium in Belgrade and attended the “Dr Vojislav Vučković” Secondary Music School, piano department. He holds a degree from the Faculty of Mathematics in Belgrade, where he also completed his MSc thesis in 2000 on the geometry of tessellations on the torus. He currently works as a mathematics teacher at the Mathematical Gymnasium.
From 1983 to 2011, he worked at Radio Belgrade 202 as an author and contributor to programs such as Jazz and Blues Line, All That Jazz, and Index Radio Theatre. Between 1997 and 2003, he also authored and hosted shows on Radio Pančevo. Today, he is active on Radio Belgrade 2 as the author of the program Jazz Scene and as a music critic. From 2018 to 2022, he served as RTS’s jazz representative in the European Broadcasting Union.
He has worked in television, including RTS’s Third Channel, where he launched the authorial series Jazz Face in 1999, later broadcast across multiple channels (around 150 episodes). He was also the first music editor of TV Politika and collaborated with Studio B and TV Pančevo.
Pantić has published music criticism in over thirty print media outlets, including Politika, Vreme, NIN, and others. Since 2009, he has written the weekly column Jazz Sketches for the cultural supplement of Politika.
He has attended major European jazz festivals such as North Sea Jazz Festival, Jazz à Vienne, Umbria Jazz, Jazzfestival Saalfelden, Jazzaldia, Jazzahead!, and many others, often as the only accredited journalist from former Yugoslavia/Serbia. He has conducted over 200 interviews with leading jazz artists.
He is the author of the book Jazz Face (2019), editor of the monograph Belgrade Jazz Festival 1971–2020, and co-author/editor of 20 Years of the Pančevo Jazz Festival. In 2025, he published Jazz Sketches of Serbia, a collection of essays, interviews, reviews, and writings on Serbian jazz.
Active as a promoter since 1985, he has served as artistic director of the Belgrade Jazz Festival (2005–2013; reappointed in 2018), Pančevo Jazz Festival (2014–2018), and Belgrade Blues Days (1988). He has also worked in music production, including the compilation Belgrade/The Blues/Today Vol. 1 and the Metropolis Jazz label. Earlier in his career, he was a musician, leading the Chess Blues Band and performing in various Belgrade rock and blues groups.
