Maja Bosnić, DMA
Maja Bosnić (1985, Belgrade) received Ph.D. in Composition from Goldsmiths University in London (England) where she studied with prof. Roger Redgate. Her undergraduate studies in Composition were at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad with prof. Milan Mihajlović, which she took in parallel to studies in General Music Pedagogy at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade (Serbia).
Her compositions have been performed in international festivals, such as Impuls (Austria), CTM Festival Berlin, Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Junger Künstler Bayreuth Festival (Germany), IYAF in Kingston upon Thames, Composers Forum in London (England), Sites + Subjects (Bulgaria), Timsonia (Romania), Delian Academy for New Music (Greece), Belgrade SAXperience, S.U.T.R.A – in the name of the algorithm, Music Here and Now, International Review of Composers, April Meetings and KOMA (Serbia). She has collaborated with a large number of performers and ensembles, including Klangforum Wien, Bellowstop, Belgrade Baroque, Metamorphosis, Muzikon Orchestra, and many others.
Since 2010, within the association Zabuna, Bosnić has realized numerous art projects supported by the European Cultural Foundation, the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia, the Secretariat for Culture of the City of Belgrade, SOKOJ, and the Goethe Institute in Belgrade. She received scholarships from the Fund for Young Talents of the Ministry of Youth and Sports of the Republic of Serbia (2008-2013), Donaueschinger Musiktage Festival 2014, as well as, In Memoriam Iannis Xenakis – Delian Academy for New Music 2019. Her work won third prize at the international competition of composers New Music Generation 2020, and the honourable mention at the Thailand New Music and Arts Symposium 2020.
Bosnić is currently a doctoral student in Transdisciplinary Studies in Contemporary Art and Media at the Faculty of Media and Communications in Belgrade, where she focuses her research on the methodology of classifying conceptual music, as well as the matter of audience participation in contemporary music.
More information: https://majabosnic.net