Nataša Bogojević
From Unearthing The Music
Nataša Bogojević (1966, Serbia/USA) graduated in composition from the Faculty of Music in Belgrade where she studied under Srđan Hofman, graduating with a thesis on nonlinear time in music composition for symphony orchestra titled Circulus vitiosus. During her studies she attended courses in electroacoustic music (in Radio Belgrade’s III Programme Electronic Studio with Vladan Radovanović) and film music (with Enio Simeone in Italy). After graduating, she worked as an assistant at the Department for Composition and Orchestration at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade.
She participated in the Belgrade TV's cultural programming, and was one of the founders of the composers’ group The Magnificent Seven, as well as a founder of the Gretchen group for research of the synthesis between music and the visual arts.
She is currently living and working in the USA where she teaches at the De Paul University in Chicago since 2003, also running her own studio, "Musica Natasha".
Her biography was included in The World of Woman in Classical Music, by Ann K. Gray (Seven Locks press, 2007), as well as in all editions of Marquis Who Is Who in America.
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Works
Natasha's compositions include works for symphony orchestra, solo instruments, chamber ensembles, choral and vocal pieces, electronic and computer music, ballet and numerous scores for film and stage music.
Her pieces have been performed at important festivals such as: European Festival of Experimental Music (organized by Pierre Schaeffer, France), Beyond Biography, Gaudeamus, New Music in Middleburg (The Netherlands), International Festival of New Music (Slovakia), Europhonia, Gedok New Music (Germany), Concerts for Peace (Japan); New Music Forum (Ukraine); Arrai Music Festival (Canada); Electro Media Works (Greece) National Conferences of American Music (USA) etc. Nataša Bogojević’s music could be heard in the repertories of prominent soloists, ensembles and orchestras of former Yugoslavia, Greece, France, Germany, England, Switzerland, Slovakia, across the former Soviet Union, The Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Australia and Canada.
Most recently her new works have been premiered by the New York Miniaturist Ensemble, Versus Vox Ensemble, Amarone String Quartet and Demetrius Spaneas who commissioned a piece for woodwinds, electronic and film to present during his year long Euro-Asian tour.
Awards
Nataša Bogojević has received several awards in Serbia (Josip Slavenski Award, Radio Belgrade Award, Association of the Serbian Composers’ Award, and October Award of the City of Belgrade) and abroad (First Prize of the UNESCO Rostrum of Composers in Paris for chamber composition Formes differentes de sonneries de la Rose+Croix).
References
- http://composers.rs/en/?page_id=1644
- https://music.depaul.edu/faculty-staff/faculty-a-z/Pages/natasha-bogojevich.aspx