Ensemble mosaik
Kristijana Helgadottir - piccolo
Christian Vogel - clarinet, bass clarinet
Niklas Seidl - cello
Electronics created with EMS Synthi 100 at the Electronic Music Studio of Radio Belgrade

Maja Bosnic - Otkrice Se (2023) - Ensemble Mosaik

Maja Bosnić is a composer 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 Lecturer 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 Musikverein, Musikprotokoll, Impuls (Austria), CTM Festival, Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Festival Jünger Kunstler Bayreuth (Germany), Spiel! Festival (Switzerland), Distat Terra Festival (Argentina), IYAF in Kingston upon Thames, London Composers Forum (United Kingdom), Tzlil Meudcan (Israel), Spazio Musica (Italy), Delian Academy of New Music (Greece), 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 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 Stipendium Progetto Positano by Ensemble Mosaik from Berlin (2023), third prize at the international composition competition New Music Generation in Kazahstan 2020, honorable mention at the Thailand New Music and Arts Symposium, Delian New Music Academy in 2019, Donaueschinger Muziktage 2014, and scholarships, and annual grants by the Ministry of Youth of the Republic of Serbia (2007-2015). Since 2010, she’s been organizing workshops and concerts of contemporary music in Serbia with organization Zabuna.