Igor Andrić (b. 1996) completed undergraduate and master studies with Isidora Žebeljan at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade. He is currently completing the Doctoral academic studies at the same faculty, in the class of Draško Adžić, as well as Konzertexamen studies in Hamburg (Germany) with Fredrik Schwenk. He is employed as a teaching assistant at the Chair for composition of the Faculty of Music in Belgrade.

His music has been performed all over Serbia, and in Europe, and he has collaborated with ensembles such as the Moscow Soloists, Orchester Im Treppenhaus, Ljubljana International Orchestra, and RTS Symphony Orchestra. Since March 2021 he is the featured artist of the Universal Edition publishing house (Vienna), which publishes all his works.

About the piece

Tri mlada meseca [Three young Moons] – Ostinato, Intermezzo and Aria for string orchestra, is a piece in three parts, whereas each of them clearly points out to a certain stylistic characteristic of baroque music. In Ostinato segment, music material is arranged similarly to the manner used in passacaglias and chaconnes. However, the bass line is not fully subordinated to their logic, but it moves freely, dictated by the music itself. Intermezzo is based on motoric movement, and it finds its parallel in short intermezzi interpolated in baroque operas. Aria, as the final (third) part of the composition, unambiguously looks after the eponymous form from the baroque opera, but in this case transferred to instrumental music. The part of solo viola is analogous to the vocal part in a baroque aria.