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Vuk Kulenovic (Cyrillic: Вук Куленовић; 21 July 1946 – 10 April 2017) was a contemporary composer and teacher based in Boston, Massachusetts. He taught counterpoint, orchestration and directed study at Berklee College of Music. He composed over 100 works for symphony orchestra, solo instruments, chamber ensembles, choral and vocal pieces, ballet, and scores for film and stage music, and had commissions from around the world. His influences were wide-ranging, including jazz, Indian ragas, Balkan folk music, rock and many other contemporary styles.

== Biography ==
=== Early Years ===
Vuk was born in Sarajevo, [[:Category:Bosnia_and_Herzegovina|Bosnia and Herzegovina]], [[:Category:Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]] in 1946 as the son of Skender Kulenović. He studied piano and composition at Ljubljana Academy of Music with Alojz Srebotnjak[1] in [[:Category:Slovenia|Slovenia]] and later at Belgrade University with Enriko Josif. Later he studied in Stuttgart, Germany under Milko Kelemen.[1] During his studies, the popular approach to composition was the 12-tone technique brought to the world by Arnold Schoenberg. This had little influence on Kulenovic however, and he wrote in the minimalist style before it was given that name and popularized by composers such as Steve Reich and Philip Glass. He taught at Belgrade University between 1979-1990 where he himself received his Masters of Music.[1]

=== Coming to America ===
In June 1992, Kulenovic organized a protest against the policies of Serbian president Slobodan Milošević in Belgrade, conducted by musicians and artists: the first of its kind.[2] However, his actions were noticed by the media and put him in an unfavorable position with the government he was protesting against. After experiencing the destruction of his property and having his execution called for by an extremist newspaper he, his wife, and two sons fled the country to the United States with a Fulbright scholarship provided by the New England Conservatory in Boston. After lecturing at local colleges in Boston (as well as other schools) he made the decision to make his home in Boston and began teaching at Berklee College of Music in the autumn of 1996.[1] He continued to teach at Berklee and remained an active composer until his death in April 2017.

=== Music ===
In Berklee Today's Spring Edition, 1997, Vuk is quoted as saying: "''my music was always closer to popular genres in a way. For instance, there are rock elements in my string orchestra piece Mechanical Orpheus and in Boogie, a piano concerto.''"[1] Of his Electric Symphony, a piece commissioned by the Berklee College of Music and performed by an orchestra of 32 musicians [8], he had the following to say:

''"I’ve been a professor at Berklee College of Music for more than 10 years now; the piece is essentially a combination of many different musical styles. As I walked through the hallways of the school, I was constantly engaged by the sound of electric guitars or South American percussion instruments, synthesizers, and so on. Groups playing blues or bebop, in fact, all-possible styles of music. Berklee is full of those sounds. Before my time at this school, I was a professor at various conservatories; my academic background is indeed from those types of so called, “classical music” institutions. However, in many of my previous works over the years, I was already traveling into these different musical styles, from Indian ragas, different types of world music, even jazz and rock. One of my piano concertos, “War Boogie”, is maybe the most obvious example that comes to my mind, of a piece from my immediate past, which already dealt with these influences, not normally found in so called, “classical music”. The idea for the Electric Symphony itself came to me one morning as I heard a group of students playing electric guitars at Berklee; I immediately realized that I had to write for that instrument. It was in that same week that I began to compose the work. I ended up sending part of the unfinished score so that it would be considered for a grant; in the end, I received the largest possible amount for such a project within Berklee."''[3]

== Works (Incomplete) ==
'''Pieces for Solo Instruments'''
* Boogie Piano Concerto
* Vanishing Landscapes Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra (1994)
* Concerto Grosso for Cello and String Orchestra (2001)
* Adoration of Moon for chamber orchestra and solo violin[4](2005)

== Discography ==
* 1982 - Slovo O Svetlosti / Ikar
* 1984 - Belgrade Strings "Dušan Skovran" - Probudite Se! ‎
* 1988 - Mother Stojanka From The Knežopolje Fields (Стојанка Мајка Кнежопољка)

== Film Scores ==
* Iskusavanje djavola (1989)
* In the Name of the People (1987)
* Kraljeva zavrsnica (1987)
* Davitelj protiv davitelja (1984)
* Dorotej (1981)
* Covjek, covjeku (1973)
* South Africa: Beyond a Miracle (2001)[6]
* Prelude to Kosovo: War and Peace in Bosnia and Croatia (1999) (Co-composed with Alexis Gavras & Vedran Smailovic)[7]

== References ==
# [http://www.balkandevelopment.org/requiem/bios/vuk.html Balkan Development], Bio of Vuk Kulenovic
# [https://web.archive.org/web/20121104150557/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8403897.html Boston Globe], October 2008, Archive file from the Boston Globe
# [http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=452778583&blogId=493118649 Vuk Kulenovic Interview], Unofficial interview by Roberto Toscano
# [http://www.chamberorchestraofboston.org/feb27_new.html Double Visions Concert], Chamber Orchestra Boston performance at Jordan Hall in 2005
# [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0474481/ IMDb], Vuk Kulenovic at the Internet Movie Database
# [http://www.bostontheological.org/south_africa_beyond_a_miracle.html South Africa: Beyond a Miracle], from the Boston Theological Institute website
# [http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/film_jm.html The Films of John J. Michalczyk]
# [https://www.berklee.edu/events/detail/1712/vuk-kulenovic-electric-symphony-with-tibor-puszt Vuk Kulenovic Electric Symphony with Tibor Pusztai, Conductor] at berklee.edu

== External links ==
[http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/vukkulenovic "Electric Symphony"] on www.cdbaby.com
[https://www.myspace.com/vukkulenovic Official Myspace Page]
[http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=452778583&blogId=493118649 Unofficial Interview] by Roberto Toscano
[http://www.clearnote.net/Night_Wanderings.html Night Wanderings by Apostolos Paraskevas] - Features Vuk's "Vanishing Landscapes

''Text adapted from Wikipedia.''

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	''"I’ve been a professor at Berklee College of Music for more than 10 years now; the piece is essentially a combination of many different musical styles. As I walked through the hallways of the school, I was constantly engaged by the sound of electric guitars or South American percussion instruments, synthesizers, and so on. Groups playing blues or bebop, in fact, all-possible styles of music. Berklee is full of those sounds. Before my time at this school, I was a professor at various conservatories; my academic background is indeed from those types of so called, “classical music” institutions. However, in many of my previous works over the years, I was already traveling into these different musical styles, from Indian ragas, different types of world music, even jazz and rock. One of my piano concertos, “War Boogie”, is maybe the most obvious example that comes to my mind, of a piece from my immediate past, which already dealt with these influences, not normally found in so called, “classical music”. The idea for the Electric Symphony itself came to me one morning as I heard a group of students playing electric guitars at Berklee; I immediately realized that I had to write for that instrument. It was in that same week that I began to compose the work. I ended up sending part of the unfinished score so that it would be considered for a grant; in the end, I received the largest possible amount for such a project within Berklee."''<sup>[3]</sup>		''"I’ve been a professor at Berklee College of Music for more than 10 years now; the piece is essentially a combination of many different musical styles. As I walked through the hallways of the school, I was constantly engaged by the sound of electric guitars or South American percussion instruments, synthesizers, and so on. Groups playing blues or bebop, in fact, all-possible styles of music. Berklee is full of those sounds. Before my time at this school, I was a professor at various conservatories; my academic background is indeed from those types of so called, “classical music” institutions. However, in many of my previous works over the years, I was already traveling into these different musical styles, from Indian ragas, different types of world music, even jazz and rock. One of my piano concertos, “War Boogie”, is maybe the most obvious example that comes to my mind, of a piece from my immediate past, which already dealt with these influences, not normally found in so called, “classical music”. The idea for the Electric Symphony itself came to me one morning as I heard a group of students playing electric guitars at Berklee; I immediately realized that I had to write for that instrument. It was in that same week that I began to compose the work. I ended up sending part of the unfinished score so that it would be considered for a grant; in the end, I received the largest possible amount for such a project within Berklee."''<sup>[3]</sup>
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 == External links ==
-[http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/vukkulenovic "Electric Symphony"] on www.cdbaby.com
+* [http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/vukkulenovic "Electric Symphony"] on www.cdbaby.com
-[https://www.myspace.com/vukkulenovic Official Myspace Page]
+* [https://www.myspace.com/vukkulenovic Official Myspace Page]
-[http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=452778583&blogId=493118649 Unofficial Interview] by Roberto Toscano
+* [http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=452778583&blogId=493118649 Unofficial Interview] by Roberto Toscano
-[http://www.clearnote.net/Night_Wanderings.html Night Wanderings by Apostolos Paraskevas] - Features Vuk's "Vanishing Landscapes
+* [http://www.clearnote.net/Night_Wanderings.html Night Wanderings by Apostolos Paraskevas] - Features Vuk's "Vanishing Landscapes
 ''Text adapted from Wikipedia.''