Damjan Jovičin (1995, Serbia) finished primary and secondary education in Prijedor, and then undergraduate and master studies at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, where he is currently in the third year of doctoral studies in the class of Zoran Erić. He is an active participant in many international festivals where he had premieres of his compositions, some of which are: Darmstädter Ferienkurse (Germany), Isa Festival (Austria) Time of Music (Finland), Soundmine (Belgium), Walden CMR (USA), Concerts du Foyeer Europeen (Luxembourg), International Singing Conference Lahti (Finland), BEMUS (Serbia), International Review of Composers (Serbia), KoMA (Serbia), Festum (Serbia), CEME festival (Izrael) etc. He received a commission from the 49th BEMUS festival in Belgrade, for which he composed the orchestral work Mathematical Dream, premiered in the Great Hall of the Kolarac Endowment by the symphony orchestra of the Radio Television of Serbia. He is also the winner of the first prizes in composition at the Balkan Composers’ Competition within the DAM Festival in Priština, the Isidor Bajić Festival in Novi Sad, the ULJUS International Piano Competition in Smederevo.

About the work

The composition Southeastern Europe is the result of several modules of composition; in terms of time these are rehearsal and innovation, and in terms of form, binary and ternary structures and collage are intertwined. In this case, the connection of music with distant regions of the mind or the universe is directed to the name, which still does not limit it to the geographical determinant.