Marko Kovač (1990, Serbia) is a composer and pianist. He graduated from the high school of music in Podgorica, piano department, in the class of prof. Anka Asanović. He won awards at national and international piano competitions and attended numerous master classes in piano and composition. He completed his undergraduate and master’s academic studies in composition at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade in the class of Isidora Žebeljan. He is currently in the final year of doctoral academic studies in the class of Draško Adžić. His music has been performed at festivals in Belgium, Poland, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia, such as BEMUS, Cello Fest, Kotor art, KoMA, FESTUM, Lasciar vibrare, Rostrum + Windows of the World, EMJ Neerpelt. As a pianist, he premiered thirty compositions. He was a teaching associate at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, at the Department of Composition and Orchestration, for four years. He works as a music producer of the Symphony Orchestra and the RTS Choir and the Belgrade Philharmonic.

About the work

The composition Marko Kraljević i vila, tužbalica za tri svirača (Marko Kraljević and the Fairy, a lament for three musicians) was created as a result of the author’s search for inspiration in the music of the imaginary pagan Balkans.