Programme
Thursday, 4 October 2018, 6 pm, Students’ Cultural Center, Great Hall
A Review within the ReviewMusicological introduction to pieces by Brian Ferneyhough, Sofia Gubaidulina, Poul Rovsing Olsen, and Erkki Jokinen Talks by Ivana Miladinović Prica and Milan Milojković, musicologists
Thursday, 4 October 2018, 8 pm, Students’ Cultural Center, Great Hall
Gala opening of the FestivalPresentation of the Stevan Mokranjac Award
Ensemble Metamorphosis
Conductor: Ivan Marković
Mladen Đorđević, trumpet
- Caterina di Cecca (Italy) - Und wie Früchte sind wir for seven instruments
- Sonja Mutić (Serbia) - Abgrund for chamber ensemble
- Miloš Zatkalik (Serbia) - Four Chromatic Transformations for string orchestra
- Tatjana Milošević (Serbia) - Whilst Thinking of You for piano and strings
- Stanko Simić (Serbia) - Memoria for chamber orchestra
- Miloš Raičković (Serbia/USA) - Passacaglia & Double Fugue on B-A-C-H and B-A-G-D-A-D for string orchestra
- Nataša Bogojević (Serbia/USA) - Dissolvenza for string orchestra
- Mirjana Živković (Serbia) - Concert Diptych for string orchestra
- Dejan Despić (Serbia) - Concerto for trumpet and string orchestra op. 168
Friday, 5 October 2018, 6 pm, Students’ Cultural Center, Great Hall
Doctoral artistic projectHanan Hadžajlić, flute
- Panayiotis Kokoras (Greece) - Cycling for amplified flute
- Dominik Karski (Poland/Australia) - Open Cluster M45 for amplified bass flute
- Mario Davidovsky (Argentina/USA) - Synchronisms no. 1 for flute and tape
- Brian Ferneyhough (Great Britain) - Mnemosyne for bass flute and tape
- Hanan Hadžajlić (Bosnia and Herzegovina) - A Thousand Plateaus: Hommage à Deleuze & Guattari for flute / bass flute and processors
- Dino Rešidbegović (Bosnia and Herzegovina) - Concerto for flute, processors, and tape
Friday, 5 October 2018, 8 pm, Students’ Cultural Center, Great Hall
Belgrade Baroque ensembleKatarina Popović and Katarina Aleksić, baroque violin
Rastko Popović, baroque viola
Srđan Stanić, viola da gamba
Jovana Topalov, harpsichord
- Moritz Lassmann (Germany) - Toccata for harpsichord
- Dragana S. Jovanović (Serbia) - Quasi la Nuova Musica Barocca
- Milana Stojadinović Milić (Serbia) - Čudotvorna kolajna (The Miraculous Medallion)
- Ivan Brkljačić (Serbia) - B-G-B-A Ro(c)k
- Maja Bosnić (Serbia) - Kavitacija (Cavitation)
- Dragan Latinčić (Serbia) - Lijane (Lianas)
Saturday, 6 October 2018, 6 pm, Students’ Cultural Center, Great Hall
Nikola Peković, accordionNemanja Stanković, violoncello
Slobodan Gerić, double bass
- Erkki Jokinen (Finland) - Alone for accordion
- Svetlana Maksimović (Serbia) - Jedini glas (The Only Voice) for solo violoncello
- Poul Rovsing Olsen (Denmark) - Without a Title for accordion
- Vladimir Korać (Serbia) - Umbra for double bass and accordion
- Lazar Đorđević (Serbia) - Quasi Sonata for violoncello
- Sofia Gubaidulina (Russia) - In Croce for violoncello and accordion
Saturday, 6 October 2018, 8 pm, Students’ Cultural Center, Great Hall
Presentation of the Aleksandar Pavlović AwardConstruction Site New Music Ensemble
Ana Gnjatović, voice
Conductor: Ivan Marković
- Luis Delgado (Colombia) - Hálitos for flute, violin, and double bass
- Ana Gnjatović (Serbia) - Phonation Mix 2 – Mémoires for voice and electronics
- Jonathan Graybill (USA) - Fantasy on a Theme by Charlie Chaplin for violin and piano
- Milan Mihajlović (Serbia) - Image for chamber ensemble
- Sunyeong Pak (South Korea) - Remnants (revised) for flute, violin, violoncello, and piano
- Jana Andreevska (Macedonia) - Mandala for eight performers
- Demian Rey (Argentina) - Tajimamori for violin, violoncello, and piano
Sunday, 7 October 2018, 6 pm, Students’ Cultural Center, Great Hall
Construction Site New Music Ensemble- Ana Kazimić (Serbia) - Auroriel for piano
- Mira Milosavljević (Serbia) - Homo ludens for string quartet
- Vladimir Tošić (Serbia) - Multus I, II, III for nonnet
- Milana Milošević (Serbia) - Toomač for chamber ensemble and electronics
- Ivan Božičević (Serbia/Croatia) - Ibis for flute, violoncello, and piano
- Jug Marković (Serbia) - motherTongue for chamber ensemble
Sunday, 7 October 2018, 8 pm, Students’ Cultural Center, Great Hall
Vladimir Dinić, baritoneHanan Hadžajlić, flute
Predrag Nedeljković, bass clarinet
Goran Marinković, bassoon
Maja Rajković, piano
Ljiljana Vukelja, piano
Goran Kostić, double bass
Srđan Palačković, percussion
Svetlana Savić, Marija Šumarac, electronics
- Christopher Cook (USA) - Dreamscape for piano
- Joshua Hey (USA) - Specks, smeared for male voice and bass clarinet
- Svetlana Savić (Serbia) - Scherzo for bassoon and live electronics
- Chatori Shimizu (Japan/Germany) - Shiki to Unkai V for bass clarinet and double bass
- Đorđe Marković (Serbia) - Phonemes for flute
- Ivan Vukosavljević (Serbia/Netherlands) - Ghost for bass clarinet and vibraphone
- Ivan Chiarelli (Brasil/Germany) - Vocabulary of Loneliness for piano and electronics
Ivan Brkljačić
Monday, 8 October 2018, 8 pm
Presentation of the Pavle Stefanović AwardBalkan Connection Brass Quintet
Mladen Đorđević, trumpet
Mario Lončar, trumpet
Viktor Kirčenkov, French horn
Marko Ilić, trombone
Krunoslav Babić, tuba
- Rajko Maksimović (Serbia) - Madrigal
- Branka Popović (Serbia) - Rainbow Walk
- Alan Hankers (USA) - Oasis
- Isidora Žebeljan (Serbia) - Duh iz tikve (The Ghost from the Pumpkin)
- Petar Obradović (Croatia) - Tango to go
- Ivan Jevtić (Serbia) - Quintette Victoria
A word from the selector
Welcome to the 27th International Review of Composers!
This year’s International Review of Composers call for pieces was answered by 400 scores, 54 of which were selected for the programme, to be performed in eight concerts over five festival days. In addition to these works, composed over the last three years, the programme also includes works by two eminent authors, Sofia Gubaidulina and Brian Ferneyhough, who, although coming from rather different poetics, have made a deep mark on 20th- and 21st-century music, each in their own way, standing out among a small group of leading figures of contemporary music creativity. The Festival will also include pieces by a Finnish composer who is generationally close to them but not too well known in Serbia, Erkki Jokinen, as well as a work by Danish composer Poul Rovsing Olsen. The Review will open with works for large chamber ensembles and string orchestra, while most of the programme comprises chamber works intended for various smaller ensembles, focusing especially on the duo as a specific medium, as well as works for solo instruments – by themselves or combined with electronics. The Belgrade Baroque ensemble will present pieces written for baroque instruments, engaging the peculiar timbre of those old instruments for the purposes of a new kind of musical expression. Seeking to encourage further writing and extend the repertory for this ensemble, there is a special focus on works for brass quintet. On this occasion, the selected quintets will be performed by the BC Brass ensemble comprising musicians from Slovenia, Croatia, and Serbia, whose members have many years of experience in chamber and solo music-making, as well as in leading positions in some of the region’s most prestigious orchestras (the Belgrade, Zagreb, and Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestras). This year’s Review will also include a concert by Hanan Hadžajlić, a doctoral student of flute at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, her final doctoral project, featuring a selection of recent works for flute and electronics, including Mnemosyne, a composition for bass flute and tape by Brian Ferneyhough. Also, there will be performances by the Metamorphosis and Construction Site ensembles, led by Ivan Marković, and many other prominent musicians dedicated to performing contemporary classical music.
The programme will be complemented with musicological analyses and presentations of works by Sofia Gubaidulina, Brian Ferneyhough, Erkki Jokinen, and Poul Rovsing Olsen, as well as a presentation of an edition of works by the composer Ivan Brkljačić.
This year’s International Review of Composers call for pieces was answered by 400 scores, 54 of which were selected for the programme, to be performed in eight concerts over five festival days. In addition to these works, composed over the last three years, the programme also includes works by two eminent authors, Sofia Gubaidulina and Brian Ferneyhough, who, although coming from rather different poetics, have made a deep mark on 20th- and 21st-century music, each in their own way, standing out among a small group of leading figures of contemporary music creativity. The Festival will also include pieces by a Finnish composer who is generationally close to them but not too well known in Serbia, Erkki Jokinen, as well as a work by Danish composer Poul Rovsing Olsen. The Review will open with works for large chamber ensembles and string orchestra, while most of the programme comprises chamber works intended for various smaller ensembles, focusing especially on the duo as a specific medium, as well as works for solo instruments – by themselves or combined with electronics. The Belgrade Baroque ensemble will present pieces written for baroque instruments, engaging the peculiar timbre of those old instruments for the purposes of a new kind of musical expression. Seeking to encourage further writing and extend the repertory for this ensemble, there is a special focus on works for brass quintet. On this occasion, the selected quintets will be performed by the BC Brass ensemble comprising musicians from Slovenia, Croatia, and Serbia, whose members have many years of experience in chamber and solo music-making, as well as in leading positions in some of the region’s most prestigious orchestras (the Belgrade, Zagreb, and Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestras). This year’s Review will also include a concert by Hanan Hadžajlić, a doctoral student of flute at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, her final doctoral project, featuring a selection of recent works for flute and electronics, including Mnemosyne, a composition for bass flute and tape by Brian Ferneyhough. Also, there will be performances by the Metamorphosis and Construction Site ensembles, led by Ivan Marković, and many other prominent musicians dedicated to performing contemporary classical music.
The programme will be complemented with musicological analyses and presentations of works by Sofia Gubaidulina, Brian Ferneyhough, Erkki Jokinen, and Poul Rovsing Olsen, as well as a presentation of an edition of works by the composer Ivan Brkljačić.
Branka Popović