Maja Bosnic

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Maja Bosnić is a composer and performer from Belgrade. She is drawn to impossible missions, absurd solutions, limited material, playfulness, uncertain outcomes, audience participation, treating instruments as "ready-made" objects, and treating everyday objects as musical instruments. She obtained a PhD degree in music composition at Goldsmiths University in London and is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Composition at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade. She writes music for various ensembles, orchestras, electronics, and multimedia projects. Bosnić’s works have been performed in festivals, such as Heroines of Sound, UpToThree, CTM Festival, Darmstädter Ferienkurse (Germany), musikprotokoll, Impuls (Austria), Warsaw Autumn (Poland), IYAF 2011, Composers Forum in London (UK), Spazio Musica (Italy), Delian New Music Academy (Greece), Tzlil Meudcan Festival (Israel), Distat Terra (Argentina), Sites + Subjects (Bulgaria), Timsonia (Romania), International Review of Composers (Serbia) and many more. In 2022 she was one of Progetto Positano fellowship holders, awarded by ensemble mosaik from Berlin, Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung and Wilhelm Kempff Stiftung, and was selected amongst 718 composers for a commission from Riot Ensemble. She was awarded the third prize at the international composition competition New Music Generation in Kazahstan 2020, honorable mention at the Thailand New Music and Arts Symposium 2020, scholarships, and annual grants by the Ministry of Youth of the Republic of Serbia (2008-2013), Donaueschinger Muziktage 2014 (Germany), and Delian New Music Academy (Greece) 2019. Since 2010, she has been leading various projects and workshops in Zabuna – New Music Association in Belgrade. In 2023 CK13 published a 2CD set album with her works: Maja Bosnić – A Portrait of a Composer.

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Ordered by year. Most recent works appears first

Soloist (Instrument or Voice) and Real Time Electronics

Concentrate β 13.46Hz for solo accordion (2023)

Ensemble (Instruments or Voices) and Fixed Electronic Media

/otkriće se/ for piccolo, bass clarinet + clarinet in B flat, cello and electronics (2023)

Mixed Ensemble

Best of fibres for sextet (2022)
((mno.go)) for amplified ensemble, video and electronics (2021)

Chamber Ensemble (5 - 9 instruments)

Best of fibres for sextet (2022)
The Q and A piece for bicycle, two cars, ensemble and audience in a public city space (2021)
((mno.go)) for amplified ensemble, video and electronics (2021)
Cavitation for harpsichord and baroque quartet (two baroque violins, baroque viola, viola da gamba and harpsichord) (2017)

Chamber Group ( 2 - 4 instruments )

Unity.projections [001=>2] for accordion and cello (2020)
Pneumothorax (ˌnjuːməʊˈθɔːræks) for soprano saxophone and piano (2020) (2020)

Solo Instrument

Vessels (160935 km) for amplified harp, video and smarphone (2020) (2020)
C:\GAME> start MS-DOS tale for accordion (2019)
A/C Modulations for piano (2018)
Ponovo pff... for solo double bass (2009)

String Orchestra

Plucked. (2019) for harpsichord and string orchestra (2019)

Ensemble (Instruments or Voices) and Real Time Electronics

\com.app.data Ever-changing piece for two groups of musicians with phone apps (2018)

Ensemble (10 - 19 instruments)

The Upgrade [for a group of musicians with phones ...in an imaginary waiting room from a not-too distant future) for voice, flute, piano, accordion and string orchestra (4,4,3,3,1) and all their smartphones (2017)

Symphony Orchestra

Ti Mathena To Su Pericha To Ocos for piano and orchestra (2009) (2009)
((mno.go)) for amplified ensemble, video and electronics (2021)
/otkriće se/ for piccolo, bass clarinet + clarinet in B flat, cello and electronics (2023)
A/C Modulations for piano (2018)
Best of fibres for sextet (2022)
C:\GAME> start MS-DOS tale for accordion (2019)
Cavitation for harpsichord and baroque quartet (two baroque violins, baroque viola, viola da gamba and harpsichord) (2017)
Concentrate β 13.46Hz for solo accordion (2023)
Plucked. (2019) for harpsichord and string orchestra (2019)
Pneumothorax (ˌnjuːməʊˈθɔːræks) for soprano saxophone and piano (2020) (2020)
Ponovo pff... for solo double bass (2009)
The Q and A piece for bicycle, two cars, ensemble and audience in a public city space (2021)
The Upgrade [for a group of musicians with phones ...in an imaginary waiting room from a not-too distant future) for voice, flute, piano, accordion and string orchestra (4,4,3,3,1) and all their smartphones (2017)
Ti Mathena To Su Pericha To Ocos for piano and orchestra (2009) (2009)
Unity.projections [001=>2] for accordion and cello (2020)
Vessels (160935 km) for amplified harp, video and smarphone (2020) (2020)
\com.app.data Ever-changing piece for two groups of musicians with phone apps (2018)