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Milica Djordjević
Serbian composer born in 1984 in Belgrade.
Milica Djordjević holds a master’s degree in composition from the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, where she studied under Isidora Žebeljan. There she also completed specialized training in electronic music with Zoran Erić and Boris Despot, as well as studies in recording and sound engineering in the class of Đorđe Petrović. From 2007 to 2009, she undertook postgraduate studies in composition at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg in the class of Ivan Fedele, graduating with honors. From 2009 to 2010, resident at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris, she followed the Cursus 1 in Composition and Computer Music at IRCAM. In 2011, she was admitted for a postgraduate degree in composition at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin, in the class of Hanspeter Kyburz.
Parallel to her studies, she participated in masterclasses and workshops given by James Clarke, Péter Eötvös, György Kurtág, Louis Andriessen, Martijn Padding, Richard Ayres, Sam Hayden, Wolfgang Rihm, Marco Stroppa, Brian Ferneyhough, Misato Mochizuki, and Isabel Mundry.
Her catalog includes pieces for solo instruments, chamber music for ensembles ranging in size from duos to double quartets, vocal works, and large-scale orchestral compositions.
Djordjević works with many international ensembles and performers, including the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, WDR Symphony Orchestra, Munich Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Mosaik, ensemble recherche, Arditti Quartet, JACK Quartet, Neuen Vocalsolisten, Peter Rundel, Marco Blaauw, Teodoro Anzellotti, Peter Veale, Tamara Stefanovich, Enno Poppe, and Francesco Dillon.
In 2022 she was composer in residence at the Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik.
Prizes and awards
- Claudio Abbado Composition Prize of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, 2020
- Staubach Fellowship, 2016
- Ernst von Siemens Music Prize, 2016
- Belmont Prize for Contemporary Music from the Forberg-Schneider Foundation, 2015
- Berlin-Rheinsberg Composition Prize, 2013
- Lucerne Festival Composition Competition Prize, 2013
- Munich Chamber Orchestra Competition Prize, 2013
- Alfred Toepfer Scholarship, 2012
- Nikola Tesla Award, 2011
- Scholarship from the City of Strasbourg, 2008
- Serbian government talent grant, 2008
© Ircam-Centre Pompidou, 2022
Sources
Site de la compositrice ; Schott Music ; Deutsche Welle.
- Solo (excluding voice)
- Suite for piano (2003)
- Pomen, improvisation on a flow of thougths from oblivion for violin solo (2006)
- Through the broken water for amplified harpsichord (2009)
- elec ircam Ircam cursus FAIL for violoncello and live electronics (2010)
- umeš li ti da laješ? ne-komunikacija za solo kontrabas ver. 2.1.1 (2010)
- … mislio bi čovek: zvezde for solo accordion (2015)
- Pomen II for solo viola (2018)
- Nailing Clouds for bassoon solo (2019)
- Role-playing 1: strings attached for solo piano (2019)
- Chamber music
- REM diptych for violin and prepared piano (2004)
- Trio for alto flute, double bass and piano (2004)
- Cyclops’ Complex for piano, prepared piano and two percussionists (2005)
- SIVO for bass flute, bass clarinet, piano, viola and violoncello (2005)
- The Death of the Star-Knower, petrified echoes of an epitaph in a kicked crystal of time I for string quartet (2008)
- The Death of the Star-Knower, petrified echoes of an epitaph in a kicked crystal of time I & II for string quartet (2009)
- Cinq réflexions educational pieces for string quartet (2010)
- How to evade? for oboe and violin (2011)
- ... a vazduh je bio lepljiv for violin, violoncello and double bass (2012)
- Mutni damari i kristalne kapi u vrtlogu prvih senzacija hominida iz Male Balanice, for harp, piano, violin, and contrabass (2013)
- Phosphorescence for horn, trumpet and bass trombone (2014)
- Indigo for double string quartet (2017)
- Pod vodom raskršća snova for clarinet, violoncello and piano (2019)
- FAIL again for e-violin and organ (2022)
- Instrumental ensemble music
- Svitac u tegli for chamber orchestra (2007)
- The Firefly in a Jar II for symphony orchestra (2008)
- Put belih kostiju for symphony orchestra (2009)
- [Untitled] for ensemble (2010)
- ZAPIS for 12 percussionists (2013)
- Sky Limited for string orchestra (2014)
- Rdja for chamber ensemble (2015)
- Quicksilver for symphony orchestra (2016)
- transfixed for ensemble (2020)
- transfixed' for ensemble (2020)
- Čvor for orchestra (2021)
- o drveću, nežnost, Mesecu... for orchestra (2022)
- Concertant music
- u dnu kamena for clarinet / bass clarinet, piano and string quintet (2006)
- Vocal music and instrument(s)
- Three Haiku for female voice, trumpet and piano (2004)
- MUK for baritone, violin and prepared piano (2005)
- Opsena nigdine, minotaur ili šta? for soprano and big band (2006)
- ZID for soprano, tenor, baritone and percussion (2009)
- Manje te u majke groze for soprano, bass clarinet, accordion, violin, viola and cello (2011)
- trace (of darkness) for amplified ensemble (2012)
- Kakva mi je to pa igra for voice and percussion (2014)
- I ti hoćeš se volimo for soprano and accordion (2015)
- Hladan ti dah do grla for mezzo soprano and ensemble (2016)
- Mit o ptici for choir and orchestra (2020)
- 2022
- FAIL again for e-violin and organ
- o drveću, nežnost, Mesecu... for orchestra
- 2021
- Čvor for orchestra
- 2020
- Mit o ptici for choir and orchestra
- transfixed for ensemble
- transfixed' for ensemble
- 2019
- Nailing Clouds for bassoon solo
- Pod vodom raskršća snova for clarinet, violoncello and piano
- Role-playing 1: strings attached for solo piano
- 2018
- Pomen II for solo viola
- 2017
- Indigo for double string quartet
- 2016
- Hladan ti dah do grla for mezzo soprano and ensemble
- Quicksilver for symphony orchestra
- 2015
- I ti hoćeš se volimo for soprano and accordion
- Rdja for chamber ensemble
- … mislio bi čovek: zvezde for solo accordion
- 2014
- Kakva mi je to pa igra for voice and percussion
- Phosphorescence for horn, trumpet and bass trombone
- Sky Limited for string orchestra
- 2013
- Mutni damari i kristalne kapi u vrtlogu prvih senzacija hominida iz Male Balanice, for harp, piano, violin, and contrabass
- ZAPIS for 12 percussionists
- 2012
- ... a vazduh je bio lepljiv for violin, violoncello and double bass
- trace (of darkness) for amplified ensemble
- 2011
- How to evade? for oboe and violin
- Manje te u majke groze for soprano, bass clarinet, accordion, violin, viola and cello
- 2010
- Cinq réflexions educational pieces for string quartet
- elec ircam Ircam cursus FAIL for violoncello and live electronics
- [Untitled] for ensemble
- umeš li ti da laješ? ne-komunikacija za solo kontrabas ver. 2.1.1
- 2009
- Put belih kostiju for symphony orchestra
- The Death of the Star-Knower, petrified echoes of an epitaph in a kicked crystal of time I & II for string quartet
- Through the broken water for amplified harpsichord
- ZID for soprano, tenor, baritone and percussion
- 2008
- The Death of the Star-Knower, petrified echoes of an epitaph in a kicked crystal of time I for string quartet
- The Firefly in a Jar II for symphony orchestra
- 2007
- Svitac u tegli for chamber orchestra
- 2006
- Opsena nigdine, minotaur ili šta? for soprano and big band
- Pomen, improvisation on a flow of thougths from oblivion for violin solo
- u dnu kamena for clarinet / bass clarinet, piano and string quintet
- 2005
- Cyclops’ Complex for piano, prepared piano and two percussionists
- MUK for baritone, violin and prepared piano
- SIVO for bass flute, bass clarinet, piano, viola and violoncello
- 2004
- REM diptych for violin and prepared piano
- Three Haiku for female voice, trumpet and piano
- Trio for alto flute, double bass and piano
- 2003
Liens internet
- Site de la compositrice : http://www.milicadjordjevic.com/
(lien vérifié en août 2022).
Discographie
- DJORDJEVIĆ, Milica, « Milica Djordjević », 1 Cd Wergo, 2017, WER 6422-2.
- DJORDJEVIĆ, Milica, « Rocks - Stars - Metals - Light », 1 Cd Col Legno, 2017, WWE 1CD 40417.