Programme
Wednesday, 6 October 2021 At 7 Pm, Students’ Cultural Centre, Big Hall
Formal opening of the Festival Presentation of the “Stevan Mokranjac” Award Bass Chorus double bass quartet Zoran Marković - artistic leader Janez Avšić Jošt Lampret Slobodan Gerić Nina Fuštar, conductor- Isidora Žebeljan (Serbia) - Intimno pismo iz Judejske pustinje for double bass quartet
- Dragana Jovanović (Serbia) - Falcon for four double basses
- Elena Firsova (Russia & United Kingdom) - Locked Up for double bass
- Michele Del Prete (Italia) - Conterpasso for four double basses
- Ivana Stefanović (Serbia) - Antiohijske pesme
- Kalevi Aho (Finland) - Solo VI for double bass
- Danijel Žontar (Bosnia and Herzegovina) - back into a mother's womb for four double basses
- Primož Ramovš (Slovenija) - Kontrafonija for double bass quartet
Thursday, 7 October 2021 at 5 PM, Students’ Cultural Centre, Big Hall
Ensemble Metamorphosis Saša Mirković, viola, Vladimir Gligorić, piano, Ivana Ćetković, violin, Katarina Petković, violin, Nemanja Adamović, viola, Aleksandra Stanić, viola, Pavle Popović, cello, Jelena Dimitrijević, violin, Vojin Aleksić, violin, Mina Kovač-Marković, soprano, Stana Krstajić, flute, Nikola Buljančević, double bass, Igor Dražević, piano Aratos trio Katarina Popović, violin Mihailo Samoran, clarinet Vanja Šćepanović, piano- Jasna Veljanović (Serbia) - Three Songs for Soprano and Viola based on Stevan Raičković’s Poems
- Milorad Marinković (Serbia) - Pasakalja for viola and piano
- Ihar Komar (Belarus) - Oikos - two postludes for string quartet
- Stanko Simić (Serbia) - Butterfly Dream for clarinet, violin and piano
- Dragan Latinčić (Serbia) - Gudački kvartet
- Fridrich Jaecker (Germany) - Watt for mezzo-soprano, bass flute, viola, cello and piano
Thursday, 7 October 2021 at 7 PM, Students’ Cultural Centre, Big Hall
Nikola Peković, accordion Tomislav Milošević, viola Construction Site Ensemble Marina Nenadović, flute, Strahinja Radoičić, flute, Veljko Klenkovski, clarinet, Nikola Ulemek, bass clarinet, Mirjana Nešković, violin, Srđan Sretenović, cello, Slobodan Gerić, double bass, Ivan Marjanović, percussion, Neda Hofman-Sretenović, piano Vladimir Korać, electronics Ivan Marković, conductor- Jug Marković (Serbia) - rusty rose for flute, violoncello, percussion and electronics
- Ana Kazimić (Serbia) - Etilirilid for accordion
- Evis Sammoutis (Greece-USA) - Secret Garden for chamber ensemble
- Vladimir Korać (Serbia) - Stellar Winds for chamber ensemble
- Rajko Maksimović (Serbia) - Song and Dance for viola
- Tatjana Milošević Mijanović (Serbia) - Time of Light for clarinet, violin and piano
- Ian Wilson (Northern Ireland) - The Emptiness of the Ever-expanding Universe Cannot Compare to the Void Where Your Heart Should Be for alto flute, bass clarinet, violin, cello and piano
Friday, 8 October 2021 at 5 PM, Legat Josip Slavenski, Trg N. Pašića 1/V
A Review within the Review Biljana Leković, musicologist Ivana Miladinović Prica, musicologist Featuring: Borislav Čičovački, oboa and Nemanja Egerić, piano Conversation about the works by Karlheinz Stockhausen, Luigi Nono, Isidora ŽebeljanFriday, 8 October 2021 at 7 PM, Students’ Cultural Center, Big Hall
Presentation of the “Pavle Stefanović” Award Maja Rajković, piano Nemanja Egerić, piano Borislav Čičovački, oboa Dušan Savković, clarinet Marko Kovač, piano Bojana Dimković, piano Miodrag Đorđević, accordion Karolina Beter, recorder Ana Radovanović, mezzo-soprano Svetlana Savić, electronics Vladimir Korać, electronics- Marko Kovač (Serbia) - Marko Kraljević i vila - tužbalica for three players
- Milana Stojadinović Milić (Serbia) - Tristezza za Dragana for piano
- Dijana Čemerite (Lithuania) - Mondgesang for recorder and accordion
- Karlheinz Stockhausen (Germany) - Klavierstück IX
- Svetlana Savić (Serbia) - Orfej u glavnom gradu for voice and electronics
- Branka Popović (Serbia) - Hammers & Air for accordion and piano
- Luigi Nono (Italy) - ...sofferte onde serene.. for piano and electronics
Saturday, 9 october 2021 at 5 PM, Students’ Cultural Centre, Big Hall
Ensemble Metamorphosis Stana Krstajić, flute, Dušan Savković, clarinet, Milan Roksandić, French horn, Marko Marković, oboa, Ivana Ćetković violin, Igor Dražević, piano, Sara Vučenović, cello, Nikola Buljančević, double bass, Srđan Palačković, percussion Ivan Marković, conductor Belgrade Trio Dušan Panajotović, violin Ivan Jarić, cello Igor Dražević, piano Milena Stanišić, harp Ivana Pavlović, harp Gorana Ćurgus, harp Miloš Miketić, flute Rastko Uzunović, clarinet Aleksandra Milanović, violin Nemanja Adamović, viola Ana Janković, cello Uki Ovaskainen, piano Damjan Jovičin, conductor- Maja Bosnić (Serbia) - Vessels for amplified harp, smartphone and video
- Igor Andrić (Serbia) - Piano trio No. 2
- Andreja Andrić (Serbia-Denmark) - Meditations (III) for two harps
- Damjan Jovičin (Serbia) - Southeastern Europe for flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello and piano
- Lazar Đorđević (Serbia) - Balkan Satire for oboe, French horn and piano
- Fani Kosona (Greece) - Ichnos for octet
Saturday, 9 october 2021. at 7 PM, Students’ Cultural Centre, Big Hall
Branko Džinović, accordion Aleksandar Latković, cello Srđan Sretenović, cello Neda Hofman - Sretenović, piano Slobodan Gerić, double bass Stana Krstajić, flute Milena Stanišić, harp Predrag Radisavljević, electronics Paul Pankert, electronics- Stanislava Gajić (Serbia) - Raga i igra for accordion and cello
- Kristijan Dimpker (Germany) - N. 6 Klanggruppen for cello and electronics
- Džošua Hej (USA) - afterimage for piano
- Milan Mihajlović (Serbia) - Les Adieux II for piccolo and alto flute and harp
- Paul Pankert (Belgium) - breaking news for cello and live electronics
- Žoao Pedro Oliveira (Portugal-USA) - Dark Energy for cello, double bass and electronics
Sunday, 10 October 2021 at 7 PM, Students’ Cultural Centre
Presentation of the "Aleksandar Pavlović" Award Ensemble 13 Strings First violins Dušan Panajotović, Katarina Kovačevski, Martina Dimić, Stefan Petrović Second violins Aleksandar Đorelijevski, Kornelija Stamenković, Ivana Zavišić, Milica Kostić Violas Marina Popović, Ivana Mandić, Miljana Stamenić Cellos Srđan Sretenović, Damjan Stanković, Mima Majstorović Double bass Damjan Milosavljević Ivan Marković, conductor Borislav Čičovački, oboe and English horn Saša Mirković, viola, harmonica Srđan Sretenović, cello Tea Dimitrijević, harpsichord- Nataša Bogojević (Serbia-USA) - Rinovata Follia for harpsichord, harmonica and string orchestra
- Miloš Zatkalik (Serbia) - Neki događaj slutim iza svih granica i pokreta for fourteen strings
- Srđan Hofman (Serbia) - Elipse Concerto Grosso for viola, cello and string orchestra
- Intermission
- Vladimir Tošić (Serbia) - Medial 12 for string orchestra
- Ivan Božičević (Hrvatska) - The Quietude of Stones for string orchestra
- Isidora Žebeljan (Serbia) - Nove Ladine pesme bez reči for oboe/English horn and string orchestra
A word from the selector
Welcome to the 30th International Review of Composers!
We are planning the thirtieth edition of the Review in the hope that the concerts, despite the pandemic, will be held live in the venues. However, due to the limited number of visitors, we are also planning an “online” version of the festival and recording concerts that will be broadcast on the channels of the Serbian Broadcasting Corporation.
The program includes forty-six works by composers from Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Finland, Italy, Russia, Germany, Belgium, and the United States, which represent very different aesthetic “voices” of recent creativity in the domain of contemporary art music, both globally and locally. There will be a total of seven concerts during the five days of the festival, which will feature chamber compositions for various combinations of instruments, with or without electronics, mostly for smaller ensembles; but, we will also hear the latest works for string orchestra and soloists. Works by composers of all generations will be presented, from those whose names are already well-known to our audiences, to the youngest generation of Serbian artists.
The most prominent Serbian ensembles specialising in contemporary music, Metamorphosis and Gradilište [The Construction Site], which interpret most of our programmes every year, will perform again, while the compositions for string orchestra will be performed by the ensemble Thirteen Strings with conductor Ivan Marković and soloists Borislav Čičovački, Saša Mirković and Srđan Sretenović. In addition to them, the Belgrade Trio, Aratos Trio, as well as numerous soloists will perform, and the festival will open with a performance by the ensemble of four double basses called Bass Chorus (Slovenia), under the artistic direction of double bassist Zoran Marković.
In addition to the compositions submitted to the competition, the program will include two significant piano works created in the second half of the twentieth century, Sofferte onde serena by Luigi Nono and Klavierstück IX by Karlheinz Stockhausen, which will be performed by pianist Nemanja Egerić. These works will also be discussed within the programme Tribina u tribini [A Panel within the Review], where Isidora Žebeljan’s work New Lada's song without words will also be presented.
Branka Popović