Ana Gnjatović (Belgrade, 1984) is a composer of acoustic and electro-acoustic music, collecting and combining found items, works, concepts, and ideas that lend themselves to generalization, translation, interpretation, and sonorization. She graduated from the Department of Composition at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, in the class of Prof. Milan Mihajlović and completed her Ph.D. studies at the same department in the class of Prof. Srdjan Hofman. She teaches music analysis at the Faculty of Arts Priština-Zvečan and is currently employed at the Interdisciplinary Studies of the University of Arts in Belgrade.
She has attended various composition masterclasses and workshops, work-ing with composers Georges Aperghis, Chaya Czernowin, Brian Ferneyhough, Beat Furrer, Louis Andriessen, G.F. Haas, and Ivan Fedele, among others. She was a prize winner of the Summer Academy ISA05 (2005) and of the 7th Pre-art Compositon Competition (2013), winner of the FoM Belgrade Josip Slavenski award (2010), finalist of the 4th International Bi-ennial of Contemporary Music in Koper (2014). Her pieces have been per-formed in Europe, Israel, USA and Japan, and have been programmed at festi-vals such as the International Review of Composers, Mokranjčevi Dani, KoMA, Harpsichord – Living Art, International Harp Festival Harp Connection, Festival Wratislavia cantans (PL), Espressivo (ME), de Wallonie (BE), Culturescapes Festi-val (CH), and the International Ankara Music Festival (TR), MUSLAB (Mexiko), MAtera INtermedia (Italy), Belgrade Saxperience.
Phonation 2 – Memoires (2016) for voice and electronics
Part of my doctoral project in composition, Phonaton 2 – Memoires, is an electroacoustic piece exploring the meaning of voice and vocal in my music. It contains the fragments of my vocal past – some of the most significant pieces of music, songs, and stories from my childhood. They are all read and sung, sampled and processed in tender memoire.