Lazar Đorđević completed his BA, MA and Doctor of Arts degrees at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, in the class of Zoran Erić. He attended master classes abroad, with Peter Ablinger (Austria), Vinko Globokar (France/Slovenia), Stephen McNeff (Great Britain), Sydney Corbett (USA/Germany), Johannes Kretz (Austria), Yann Robin (France), Annelies Van Parys (Belgium), and others.
His works have been presented by the renowned soloists and important ensembles including the RTS Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble for new music Construction Site, Camerata Academica, Ensemble Metamorphosis, Belgrade Trio, TAJJ String Quartet, and others. Lazar Đorđević’s pieces have been performed in Serbia and abroad (Austria, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Estonia, Lithuania, Canada, Germany, North Macedonia, etc.) at festivals and events such as the isaFestival, International Rostrum of Composers, Balkan Youth Academy, Sarajevo Sonic Studio, International Review of Composers, Rossifest, OKTOH, Eufonija, KoMA, FESTUM, Dani Vojina Komadine, U čast Predraga Miloševića, and others.
Lazar Đorđević has received important awards and accolades including First prize of the competition “New Serbian music for accordion” (2016), two Rossifest awards (2018, 2021), Đurđevdan Award of the City of Kragujevac in the field of arts for best work performed in 2021, and many more. His piece Sounds of the Balkans for symphony orchestra (2023) was awarded at the Composers competition of the Western Balkans Youth Orchestra and premiered within the orchestra’s international tour. His piece D-Madness for viola and 15 strings represented Serbia at the 67th International Rostrum of Composers (IRC) in 2021. He is a member of the Composers Association of Serbia (since 2015) and Sokoj (since 2017).
Lazar Đorđević works as an assistant professor of compositional-theoretical disciplines at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, Department of Composition.
About the piece
Impulse – Skice za kompoziciju [Sketches for a composition] was written in 2020, originally for accordion and two saxophones. On initiative of the accordionist Branko Džinović, the work was rewritten for keyboard accordion, saxophone and trumpet, as a commission within the project “New Serbian music for saxophone and accordion”. The main idea of the piece is the momentum (impulse), which can be understood in classical mechanics as the tendency of a body to continue moving in the same direction, unless it is impacted by some external force. In musical terms, the piece is founded on various high energy motives out of which musical content is developed.