Programme
Friday, November 13, at 8 pm – Hall of the National Bank of Serbia
St. George Strings (Belgrade, Serbia) Conductor: Bojan Suđić Stefan Milenković, violin
- Zoran Erić (Serbia) – Seven Glances at the Sky, for string sextet – Mokranjac Award for 2008
- Ljubica Marić (Serbia) – Asymptote, for violin and strings
- Ilya Ziblat-Shay (Israel/The Netherlands) – Night Along the Top With Mr. Abdel Wahab
- Kasia Glowicka (Poland) – Perpetuity, for strings and electronics
- Miloš Zatkalik (Serbia) – The Four Visions of Absence
- Aleksandar Vujić (Serbia) – Serbian Kolo, for violin and strings
Saturday, November 14, at 6 pm – Hall of the National Bank of Serbia
PIANO MUSIC
Sonja Lončar, Andrija Pavlović, Natalija Mladenović
- Bojan Glavina (Slovenia) – Zen Preludes
- Tatjana Ristić (Serbia/Norway) – Timenoid
- Alexina Louie (Canada) – Fastforward
- Mirjana Živković (Serbia) – Ballade No. 2 (fragments of memory)
- Davorin Kempf (Croatia) – Three Views of the Osor Cathedrale
- Andrés Valero-Castells (Spain) – Zeffiroso
- Panayiotis Kokoras (Greece) – Apex
Saturday, November 14, at 8 pm – Hall of the National Bank of Serbia
Sonanza Ensemble (Stockholm, Sweden) Conductor: Jan Risberg Đuro Živković – viola
- Đuro Živković (Serbia/Sweden) – Le Cimitière Marin II, for 10 players
- Andrea L. Tarrodi (Sweden) – Akacia, for piano trio
- Vasilije Mokranjac (Serbia) – Preludio, for clarinet
- Salvatore Sciarrino (Italy) – La Malinconia, for violin and viola
- Victoria Borisova-Olas (Russia/Sweden) – Behind the Shadows
- Ahmet Yirir (Turkey) – Arioso e Aria Cabaletto, for 9 players (first performance)
- Ljubica Marić (Serbia) – Torso, piano trio
- Henrik Strindberg (Sweden) – Timeline, for 9 players
Sunday, November 15, at 6 pm – Hall of the National Bank of Serbia
INSTRUMENTAL MONOLOGUES
Soloists: Dragan Đorđević, violoncello, Stana Krstajić, flute, Jelena Banković, soprano, Mihajlo Samoran, clarinet, Katarina Aleksić, violin
- Evis Sammoutis (Cyprus) – Taftophonia, for violin
- Srđan Dedić (Croatia) – Hey Pearl!, for violoncello
- Dmitry Lybin (Belorussia) – La maison avec une spectre, for violoncello
- Jasna Veljanović-Ranković (Serbia) – A Dream Within A Dream, for soprano and flute
- Sohrab Uduman (Sri Lanka/Great Britain) – Upon Convergence, for clarinet
- Xiao Hu (China) – Monologue on the String, for violoncello
Sunday, November 15, at 8 pm – Kolarac Foundation Hall
Klangforum Wien Conductor: Emilio Pomárico
- Bernhard Gander (Austria) – fête.gare
- Iannis Xenakis (Greece/France) – Waarg
- Georges Aperghis (Greece/France) – Teeter-Totter
- Bernhard Gander (Austria) – Beine und Strümpfe Ensemble: Vera Fischer, flutes; Nataša Marić, flutes; Markus Deuter, oboe; Olivier Vivarès, clarinets; Bernhard Zachhuber, clarinets; Reinhold Brunner, clarinets; Lorelei Dowling, bassoon; Gerald Preinfalk, saxophon; Christoph Walder, horn; Anders Nyqvist, trumpet; Andreas Eberle, trombone; József Bazsinka, tuba; Gunde Jäch-Micko, violin; Annette Bik, violin; Andrew Jezek, viola; Benedikt Leitner, violoncello; Andreas Lindenbaum, violoncello; Uli Fussenegger, double bass; Viviane Chassot, accordion; Lukas Schiske, percus- sion; Adam Weisman, percussion; Florian Müller, piano; Mathilde Hoursian- gou, piano / Florian Bogner, sounddesign
Monday, November 16, at 8 pm – Hall of the National Bank of Serbia
String Quartet TAJJ (Novi Sad, Serbia) Aleksandra Krčmar Ćulibrk and Jovanka Mazalica, violins, Jelena Filipović, viola and Timea Kalmar, violoncello
- HyeKyung Lee (South Korea/USA) – Spheres
- Jovanka Trbojević (Serbia/Finland) – Kolme Sanaa (Tribute to Kalevala)
- Ian Wilson (Ireland) – Across a clear blue sky, for string quartet, 2 radios and toys
- Smiljana Vlajić (Serbia) – String Quartet
- Ljubomir Nikolić (Serbia) – Foreign Body, String Quartet No. 2
Monday, November 16, at 10 pm – Hall of the National Bank of Serbia
MIXED MEDIA
Sonja Lončar, Andrija Pavlović, pianos, Maja Jokanović, violin, Slobodan Gerić, double bass, Ljubomir Milanović, viola, Dragan Đorđević, violoncello
- Mark Barden (USA/Germany) – Die Haut Anderer for e.h, for soloist and video
- Jason Bolte (USA) – Scrap Metal, for piano and fixed media (CD)
- Katarina Miljković (Serbia/USA) – White City, for violin, electronics and video
- Karen Power (Ireland) – cows, coffee, birds, bees and a new room, for double bass and tape
- Nickitas Demos (USA) – intelligent designs for violin, viola, violoncello and video
Tuesday, November 17, at 8 pm – Hall of the National Bank of Serbia
Jasna Tucović, piano, Ivan Knežević, violin, Aleksandar Latković, violoncello Wind Quintet of Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra – Marina Nenadović, flute; Bojan Pešić, oboe; Veljko Klenkovski, clarinet; Nenad Janković, bas- soon; Nenad Vasić, horn
- Dorothea Hofmann (Germany) – Myrten und Platanen, piano trio
- Anica Sabo (Serbia) – Three Scraps, wind quintet
- Jovica Mutavdžić (Serbia) – Variations, piano trio
- Cristiano Melli (Brazil) – Lo que vi el agua, wind quintet
- Michalis Keffalas (Greece) – Five Images, wind trio
- Dejan Despić (Serbia) – Rendez-vous, wind quintet op.195
Wednesday, November 18, at 6 pm – Hall of the National Bank of Serbia
String Quartet of the St. George Strings (Belgrade) Mladen Drenić and Miljana Popović, violins, Ljubomir Milanović, viola, Srđan Sretenović, violoncello
- Branka Popović (Serbia) – out of nowhere
- Svetlana Maksimović (Serbia/Canada) – Pieces of Time in My Hands, String Quartet No. 2
- Da Jeong Choi (South Korea/USA) – String quartet No. 1
- Nataša Bogojević (Serbia/USA) – Disappointment Postponed
- Isidora Žebeljan (Serbia) – Polomka Quartet
Wednesday, November 18, at 8 pm – Kolarac Foundation Hall
RTS Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Bojan Suđić Vladimir Cvijić, piano, Vladimir Milošević, piano
- Tatjana Milošević (Serbia) – Green with Buzz
- Vladimir Tošić (Serbia) – Motus, duo for piano and orchestra
- Tobias Bröstrom (Sweden) – Transit Underground
- Alice Ping Yee Ho (Hong Kong/Canada) – Dark Elements
- Vasilije Mokranjac (Serbia) – Poem, for piano and orchestra
Ivan Brkljačić: A Word from the Selector
Ladies and gentlemen,
The festival which is about to start is in many ways special. This year we celebrate its 18th birthday. It is perhaps for that reasons that now, like never before, we have such important, world-renowned names: Stefan Milenković, Klangforum Wien Orchestra, Sonanza Ensemble from Stockholm. This year’s Review will also see the promotion of a new chamber ensemble, the TAJJ Quartet from Novi Sad.
We have renewed our cooperation with St. George Strings, and continued working with maestro Bojan Suđić, the Wind Quintet of the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra of Serbian Broadcasting System and a whole series of superb domestic soloists who have largely contributed to the Review over the past years, and who have a proper sense of where and to whom they belong.
Through a symbolic conjunction of two creative poetics reflected in the slogan The Echoes of Space, it is the aim of this year’s Review to point out the outstanding achievements of our music, to the values which need to be reemphasized over and over again, both at home and abroad. Ljubica Marić, Vasilije Mokranjac and many other remarkable personalities ought to have a permanent place on the concert podium. They more than deserve it.
Ten concerts in six days will feature 55 compositions, with Asymptote by Ljubica Marić and Poem for piano and orchestra by Vaslilje Mokranjac serving as the frame. It is my pleasure to state that 20 Serbian and 25 foreign composers from Europe, America and Asia recognized their own artistic expression in The Echoes of Space and wished to become part of our Review.
May this year be even more successful, may we be richer and more mature, and may we never lose our youthful spirit and the vitality of an 18-years old. Let my message to the 18th International Review of Composers be Many Happy Returns.
Ivan Brkljačić, selektor