MajaBosnic
Maja Bosnić (1985, Serbia) 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 of expression, and treating real-life objects as musical instruments. She obtained a PhD degree in music composition at Goldsmiths, University of London (UK), supervised by prof. Roger Redgate, and is currently working as Assistant Professor in Composition at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade. She writes pieces for solo, chamber, ensemble, and orchestra performances, as well as, projects for electronics, multi-media, and interactive settings with audience participation. Bosnić’s works have been performed in festivals, such as Heroines of Sound, UpToThree, CTM Festival, Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Festival Jünger Kunstler Bayreuth (Germany), Musikprotokoll, Impuls (Austria), IYAF in Kingston upon Thames, London Composers Forum (United Kingdom), Warsaw Autumn (Poland), Festival Spaziomusica (Italy), Delian Academy of New Music (Greece), Tzlil Meudcan Festival (Israel), Distat Terra (Argentina), Sites + Subjects (Bulgaria), Timsonia Festival (Romania), Music Here and Now, KOMA, International Review of Composers, April Meetings, and S.U.T.R.A. Festival (Serbia). Her works have been performed around Europe with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia, Secretariat for Culture of the City of Belgrade, Goethe-Institut, Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, the Austrian Ministry of Culture and European Cultural Foundation. She was awarded the Progetto Positano scholarship 2022, third prize at the international composition competition New Music Generation in Kazahstan 2020, honorable mention at the Thailand New Music and Arts Symposium, scholarships, and annual grants by the Ministry of Youth of the Republic of Serbia, Donaueschinger Muziktage 2014, and Delian New Music Academy in 2019. Since 2010, she has been leading various projects and workshops in Zabuna – New Music Association in Belgrade.