Vladimir Tošić (Serbia), composer, multimedia artist, Professor at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade. He studied composition with Vasilije Mokranjac at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade. He was awarded first prize in the Thomas Bloch Composition Contest (Paris, 2000), and third prize in the Competition for Children’s Guitar Composition, for the piece Gitarrentage fur Kinder (Lebach, Germany 2011). This composition was published by the eminent publishing house Chanterelle from Heidelberg. Vladimir Tošić’s pieces have been regularly performed in national and international concert halls and festivals of contemporary music. Tošić’s works have been performed several times in the USA, Germany, Brasil, Belgium, the Netherlands, Peru, Italy, Spain, France, Sweden, Argentina, Portugal, the United Kingdom and Japan. His works have been published on numerous CD releases in Serbia and the USA, among which the CD Melange stands out (PGP RTS 2000). The basis of the composer’s creative approach is the reductionist principle of piece construction. All his works are processual, repetitive and based on a very small number of different elements, sometimes even one (colour, rhythm, harmony…). The most important pieces: Varial, Dual, Trial, Voksal, Fission, Fusion, Altus…

The composition Altus for bass (voice) and piano was created in January 2001 as a commission for the festival of songs in Novi Bečej, where it was performed for the first time. In this composition faster tempo and livelier rhythmics are added to the recognizable, significant traits of my earlier pieces – processual organization, repetitiveness, symmetry etc., thus augmenting the flow of events in time. In comparison with most of my previous pieces, the strictness in achieving the assigned process is somewhat lower in favour of more acceptable acoustic solutions. The basis of the composition is the eight-tone melody row of aliquot modus which varies in different ways in the three sections. Over time, this composition has become one of my most performed pieces so many variations have been created for various performers: for a duo, trio, quartet, rock band and orchestra.