Rts Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Bojan Suđjić

EUROPEAN COMPOSER & SONGWRITER ALLIANCE INVITES YOU TO THE CONCERT OF THE EUROPEAN CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA (ECCO)

F E AT U R I N G T H E RTS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CONDUCTED BY BOJAN SUĐJIĆ

BELGRADE, 18 SEPTEMBER 2018 — KOLARAC CONCERT HALL —

STUDENTSKI TRG 5, 11000 BELGRADE — SERBIA ABOUT ECCO

THE EUROPEAN CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA (ECCO)

Imprint ECCO is an ECSA project dedicated to performing and promoting Biographies and programme notes written by the composers and the ensemble: contemporary art music and to reaching new audiences. It operates as a Ülo Krigul, Jacqueline Fontyn, Nicola Campogrande, Mikko Nisula, Isidora network of active ensembles, orchestras and young professionals, supporting Žebeljan, Milan Mihajlović and Zorica Premate. the creative dialogue between composers and performers and offering young professionals the opportunity to develop their skills with ensembles Editor: Alicja Swierczek experienced in performing contemporary music on an international level. The Designer: Meriem Steiner concert series, taking place bi-annually in various countries, serve to circulate repertoire across European borders and help promoting current repertoire and Europe’s musical diversity. Please note: BY ATTENDING THIS EVENT, YOU GIVE YOUR CONSENT TO HAVE PICTURES The ECCO concert, and other cultural projects organised by ECSA, aim at AND VIDEO MATERIAL OF YOU TAKEN THAT MAY BE USED IN PUBLICATIONS increasing the visibility of ECSA and all the issues connected to the status OR MARKETING IN RELATION TO THIS EVENT. of contemporary music creators. Pieces are received via a call to all ECSA member societies and are carefully selected to reflect the cultural and aesthetical diversity of European art music in the 21st century.

In 2015, two ECCO concerts were held, one in Brussels and one in London. The first one was performed by the Sturm und Klang ensemble and conducted by Thomas van Haeperen. The second one was performed by the BBC Singers and conducted by James Morgan. In 2016, ECCO presented three very successful concerts performed by Sturm und Klang, the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra and the Big Band of RTV Slovenia. In February 2017, the ECCO Symphony Wind Orchestra concert featured the Sturm und Klang ensemble and was conducted by Thomas van Haeperen. In October 2017, the concert featured the renowned Wiener Concert-Verein string orchestra ensemble which was conducted by two students from the mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Svetlomir Zlatkov and Lorenz Müller. In February 2018, the prominent ensemble Quatuor Diotima was featured at Flagey.

Tonight’s concert will feature the RTS Symphony Orchestra conducted by Maestro Bojan Suđić who will perform pieces by the following composers: Ülo Krigul (Estonia), Jacqueline Fontyn (Belgium), Nicola Campogrande (Italy),

The European Commission support for the production of this publication Mikko Nisula (Finland), Isidora Žebeljan (Serbia) and Milan Mihajlović (Serbia). does not constitute endorsement of the contents which reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. ABOUT ECSA PROGRAMME

THE EUROPEAN COMPOSER AND 18 FEBRUARY 2018 — BELGRADE SONGWRITER ALLIANCE

The European Composer and Songwriter Alliance (ECSA) represents over WELCOMING WORDS 50,000 professional composers and songwriters in 26 European countries. BY With 54 member organisations across Europe, the Alliance speaks for the DUŠAN BAVDEK interests of music creators of art and classical music (contemporary), film and (Chair of the ECCO Artistic Committee) audiovisual music, as well as popular music.

The main objective of the Alliance is to defend and promote the rights of EIN (KLEINER) WINTERNACHTSTRAUM authors of music at the national, European and international levels by any JACQUELINE FONTYN legal means. It advocates for equitable commercial conditions for composers and songwriters and strives to improve social and economic development of SYMPHONIC SLICES music creation in Europe. ÜLO KRIGUL

ECSA was initiated in 2006 in Vienna within the framework of the Mozartjahr. THE HORSES OF SAINT MARK It was established as an alliance in March 2007 in Madrid with the purpose ISIDORA ŽEBELJAN of becoming the central organisation representing the interests of all music creators in Europe, giving every composer and songwriter a European voice. INTERMISSION

TRE PICCOLISSIME MUSICHE NOTTURNE NICOLA CAMPOGRANDE MEMENTO MILAN MIHAJLOVIĆ

VELLAMON NEIDOT MIKKO NISULA JACQUELINE FONTYN BIOGRAPHY PROGRAMME NOTE: EIN (KLEINER) WINTERNACHTSTRAUM

Jacqueline Fontyn was born in Antwerp, where, at the age of five, her parents Mrs. Fontyn writes: “Thanks to a commission by German conductor and entrusted her to the wonderful Russian piano teacher Ignace Bolotine. She violinist Wolfgang Hentrich, I could dedicate myself to this short composition had lessons daily, and Bolotine encouraged her to develop her taste for that was going to be performed by the Dresdner Philharmonic on New Year’s improvisation. At the age of fifteen, she decided to become a composer. She Eve 2003. received her grounding in the techniques of composition from Marcel Quinet in Brussels. She continued her musical education in Paris with Max Deutsch, a Its title alludes to beloved Felix Mendelssohn’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. fervent disciple of Schönberg. It was for me an opportunity to add a humourous note that will certainly make the audience smile, hoping they will appreciate listening to this humble opus.” In 1956 she attended Hans Swarowsky’s conducting class at the Akademie für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna.

From 1963 to 1970 she was Professor of Music Theory at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp. From 1970 to 1990 she taught Composition at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels.

She is a regular guest of universities and conservatoires in Europe (Germany, France, Hungary, The Netherlands, Poland and Switzerland), the United States, Israel, Egypt, Asia (China, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan) and New Zealand.

She has received many awards, most notably the Spanish Oscar Espla Prize and the Prix Arthur Honegger from the “Fondation de France”. She was asked to write the set piece, a Violin Concerto, for the finals of the 1976 Reine Elisabeth International Music Competition, and has twice undertaken commissions from the Koussevitsky Music Foundation in the Library of Congress, Washington.

Since 2006 all her manuscripts are hosted in the music division of the library of Congress in Washington.

Jacqueline Fontyn is a member of the Belgian Royal Academy and in 1993 the King of Belgium granted her the title of baroness in recognition of her artistic merit.

Ülo Krigul was born 7 November 1978 in Tallinn. His style includes influences As an initial drive for creating the musical material of that piece, there are from jazz, post-minimalism and sonoristics among them. The imagery of Krigul’s certain types of rhythmic patterns, written by using the classical drum set music is rich in playful contrasts. At the present time his major compositional only, later harmonising and orchestrating the outcome. These patterns are interest is “to treat chords and the relationship between them as geometric based on a style that is called the “Breakbeat” in the drummers´ world. figures or graphic projections”. He graduated from Tallinn Music High School (Alo Põldmäe’s composition class and the extracurricular tuba class), and from The smallest musical unit in percussive context is the beat. This term is something the Estonian Academy of Music under the guidance of Raimo Kangro and that runs through the entire orchestration and energy of Symphonic Slices. The René Eespere. He then furthered his studies at the Universität für Musik und same idea is reflected in the title, referring to certain kind of disruptions and darstellende Kunst Wien with Detlev Müller-Siemens. In 2006, he obtained a fragmentary – the “beatness” - of the material exposed. Master Degree in composition with Tõnu Kõrvits at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. There are places in the score where the whole orchestra is set in layers according to different parts of the drum-set. Anyway, all passages and patterns are in From 1993, Krigul has been a keyboard player and arranger in many rock and relation to the shortness, precision and concentration of a sole Beat. jazz ensembles. At the present time he plays keyboards in the ensembles Compromise Blue and Contus Firmus. The piece is divided into 4 movements, shifting rapidly from one to another. The “so called” dynamic statics are important in phrasing details: dramaturgic His works have been performed at several music festivals in Estonia (Estonian development happens on repetitive cumulation and/or sudden absence of Music Days, international new music festival NYYD, international pianists’ festival expected events. Klaver, etc.) as well as in Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Latvia, Ukraine etc. Ülo Krigul is also active as music organizer and as film-music composer. He belonged to the staff of the international jazz festival Jazzkaar and he was the artistic director of the Autumn Festival of the Estonian Academy of Music founded by him and Timo Steiner. Since 2005, he is one of the artistic directors of the Estonian Music Days Festival.

Among his most important awards, Krigul can list the first prize at the International Composers’ Rostrum in Paris in the category of composers under 30 years in 2007 and the Europäische Komponistenpreis 2005 at the Young Euro Classic festival in Berlin for his orchestral work JenZeits. His work Swan Bone City for soprano and orchestra was awarded the Composer Prize of the Estonian Music Days Festival 2012 and Prince Pierre of Monaco Music Composition Prize in 2014. In 2006, he was awarded the Heino Eller Music Prize and the Annual Prize of the Endowment for Music of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia for artistic direction of the Estonian Music Days Festival and Estonian music propaganda. In 2007, Krigul was awarded the Annual Prize of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia in the artistic team of feature film Autumn Ball. In 2016, Ülo Krigul’s work Vesi ise for mixed choir and phonogram gained the 2nd place at the International Rostrum of Composers in Wroclaw. In 2016, Ülo Krigul received the Estonian Music Council Music Prize. © Iris Oja ISIDORA ŽEBELJAN BIOGRAPHY PROGRAMME NOTE: THE HORSES OF SAINT MARK, ILLUMINATION FOR ORCHESTRA

Isidora Žebeljan born in Belgrade in 1967, is Serbia’s most outstanding and Isidora Žebeljan says about her piece: ‘There is a legend that God gave the internationally acclaimed composer. She first attracted international attention Greek sculptor Lysippus the ability to make an alloy that could last forever. with her opera Zora D, which has been performed across Europe since its Lysippus cast four horses from this alloy. Constantine the Great placed them 2003 premiere in Amsterdam, directed by David Pountney. Her work has been at the gate of the Hippodrome and bade them to preserve the myth of the commissioned by internationally prominent institutions and festivals, including East and the legend that gave them birth. As a demonstration of their eternal the Lincoln Center White Light Festival, Berlin Philharmonic Foundation, might, famed emperors and commanders took them to the West. As they Bregenz Festival, Venice Biennale, Accademia Musicale Chigiana Siena, City travelled over the Levant and Europe, the horses carried with them songs of London Festival, University of Kent, Musiktheater im Revier Gelsenkirchen, from their homeland lest they forget their land of origin. The empires have Genesis Foundation London, Eduard van Beinum Foundation, International since fallen. Yet the horses live on to the glory of their creator’s idea.’ Horn Society et al. The Horses of St Mark was commissioned by the 2004 Venice Biennale and Žebeljan’s works are performed by some of the world’s most celebrated artists, premiered on October 22, 2004, at the Teatro Piccolo Arsenale in Venice including the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, by the Friuli Venezia Giulia Symphony Orchestra conducted by Christoph Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic Octet, Brodsky Quartet, Poppen. After the premiere, this composition has been performed, among I Solisti Veneti, Torino’s RAI National Symphony Orchestra, Real Filharmonía others, by Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, de Galicia, Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra, Haydn Orchestra, No Border No Borders Orchestra, Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Orchestra, Dutch Chamber Choir, London Brass, conductors Paul Daniel, David Porcelijn, Pierre-André Valade, Dorian Wilson and Premil Petrović. The Claudio Scimone, David Porcelijn, soloists Stefan Dohr, Alessandro Carbonare, recordings of this composition have been released by CPO and Deutsche Daniel Rowland, Oliver Triendl and many more. Her compositions are regularly Grammophon. performed in Europe, Israel, USA, Canada, Australia and Asia. She is a Professor of Composition at the Belgrade Faculty of Music. She regularly appears as a conductor and pianist of her works, and is an advocate for other composers from her native country Serbia.

Beside other excellent reviews and opinions, Sir John Eliot Gardiner has expressed admiration for “…the skill, craft and imaginative range…” of her music, and “…its kaleidoscopic range of timbres and, indeed, its many moods.” She is a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences. The recordings of her music were published on CDs by Deutsche Grammophon, CPO and Chandos Records.

“Serbian composer Isidora Žebeljan... is justly celebrated for her music’s intense originality and fiery emotional expression…” BBC Music Magazine, 2016

Born in Turin, Italy, in 1969, he is regarded as “one of the most interesting Mr. Campogrande writes: Italian composers of the young generation” (Amazon.com). Since 2017, his music is published exclusively by Breitkopf & Härtel. “These “Tre piccolissime musiche notturne” (Three very little night music) are a small tribute to Mozart, and not only in the title: here and there, there After graduating from the Conservatories of Milan and Paris, he began to are intervals, fragments, suggestions coming from Eine kleine Nachtmusik develop an original personal style, combining past and present traditions on a and, in a couple of occasions, even very short quotations are heard (at the fascinating new path. Performing his scores, such musicians as Gautier Capuçon, flute, in the first movement; at the trumpet, in the final of the last). Lilya Zilberstein, Mario Brunello, Roberto Abbado, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestre National d’Île-de-France, the Fine Arts Quartet or the I wrote them between November 2005 and February 2006 and the third Quartetto del Teatro alla Scala have appreciated the freshness and the vitality movement was born twice: the first version, that I found wonderful, has been of his music as well as his ability to touch the heart of the listeners. lost in an unexplainable system error that has devoured the file, the backup file and every further extra copy on my supports; the one contained in the A musical theatre enthusiast, he wrote the operas De bello gallico, #Folon, score is a recreation which, however, can never return the enchantment of Opera italiana, Macchinario, Lego, Alianti, bringing together the lyrical those forty-eight bars lost forever.” tradition, the most interesting experiences coming from old avantgardes and some atmospheres related to jazz and rock. He also developed a rich orchestral and chamber catalogue. Among his most appreciated scores are the Concerto for audience and orchestra, R (A portrait for piano and orchestra), 150 Decibel, for cello and piano, Urban gardens for piano and chamber orchestra, the Ink- jet preludes for guitar, the Danze della signorina Olivia, for violin and piano, the Dances of Laughter and Forgetting for accordion and piano.

His music is recorded on more than 30 CDs (from DECCA to independent labels) and it is performed frequently in the most prominent halls of many countries. The Royal Albert Hall and the Wigmore Hall in London, the Teatro alla Scala, the Werner Hall in Cincinnati, the Philharmonie and the Unesco Auditorium in Paris, the Auditorium Santa Cecilia-Parco della Musica in Rome, the Rudolfinum in Prague, the Auditorio Stelio Molo in Lugano are recent venues.

As artistic director of the MITO SettembreMusica festival, Campogrande is also a host on Italian RAI Radio3 and he produces the TV program “Contrappunti” on the Classica HD Channel. He writes on the cultural pages of the newspaper Il Corriere della sera. He has been a member of the International Music Commission of the European Choral Association - Europa Cantat, where he is now Advisor. His book “Occhio alle orecchie. Come ascoltare musica classica e vivere felici (2015)” was reprinted for its sixth edition.

Milan Mihajlović was born in Belgrade, July 3, 1945. He enrolled at the First Zorica Premate writes about Mihajlović’s piece: “In Memento, Mihajlović speaks Belgrade Grammar School in 1960, and at the Music School “Slavenski” in 1961, of the tragedy of genius in barbaric times; in his own, peculiar way, he speaks studying piano and music theory. He graduated in Composition and Conducting with the most beautiful rhymes of his musical imagination – and the beauty that at the Music Academy, and acquired his master’s degree in composition. He speaks of horror is deadly. has attended summer courses in Cologne and Salzburg. From 1975 he taught at the Faculty of Music, Department of Music Theory, where he advanced Mihajlović’s apotheosis is not joy, it is the deepest sorrow of a poet who speaks through all positions from assistant to full professor (1994). In 1998 he joined with his too rich spirit about the death of spirit and the end of nobleness, the Composition Department at the same Faculty. frustrated as a human being, yet at the same time creatively inspired and keeping ironic distance. He was Head of Music Theory Department (1984-88), and Dean of the Faculty of Music (2002-2009). Mihajlović’s rich orchestral texture, his insight and gift to conjecture and design the dramatic structure of the whole in the succession of parts, his already He was President of the Composers Association’ of Serbia (1989—2002). He was typical way of announcing the ever newer and richer shades and nuances of also one of the founders of the new Music Ensemble (1992), as well as the founder his own philosophical and poetical world: all these testify to the superiority (1992) and director of the International Review of Composers (1992-2002). of the composer’s spirit, confirmed in the manner of the old masters: the recognizable style, perfect and logical conducting of sound through time, He is the recipient of numerous awards. functional yet inventive orchestration…”

Mihajlović’s works are often performed abroad, in concert halls such as Tonhalle in Zürich, Carnegie Hall in New York City, Hall of the Berlin Philharmonic, Steinway Hall in London, Sydney Conservatory Hall, Auditorium of the Dijon Opera; some of his works have been published by major publishers like Peters from Leipzig and Brandstätter from Cologne.

He was composer-in-residence at the Chamber Music Festival in Kempten, Germany (2014) and Chamber Music Festival in Dijon, France (2016).

For the CPO publishing house (CD), Brandenburg State Orchestra and conductor Howard Griffits recorded a CD and organised a concert with his compositions (Frankfurt/Oder - August 2018).

Mikko Nisula was born in 1974 and studied musicology at Helsinki University Mr Nisula writes about his piece: “The title of my orchestral piece Vellamon and composition at Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in Saint-Petersburg with neidot (2016) comes from the Finnish national epic Kalevala and it means Boris Tishchenko. Later, he completed his studies in a master-class with the ‘Daughters of Vellamo’, the mermaids of the goddess of the sea, Vellamo. Belgian composer Philippe Boesmans. Since 2007, he has been working on However, the original inspiration came from the painting Sadko, by Ilya Repin. the critical edition of Fredrik Pacius’ (1809-1891) “Complete Works of Musical In that painting we can see mermaids, which are floating before us like in some Drama”. As a composer, Nisula can be characterized as a neoromantic, who has kind of colourful underwater ballet scene. From here comes the certain light also absorbed into his music various other stylistic influences, according to the dance-like character of the music. mood and subject of each composition. The motive of Vellamo is heard at the very beginning, played by two clarinets. Among his central works, are the opera Tähtisilmä (Starry-eyed girl, 2010-17) The musical material of the slow introduction is later developed in two Allegro- and Sinfonia concertante (2007-9). Worth mentioning are also 3 chamber sections, which are framing a meditative interlude. The first Allegro gains a concertos (2001-2008), 5 song cycles for different combinations, 4 sonatas for ballet-like and oriental character, the second one leads to a small-scale storm. accordion (2003-2017), as well as the compositions on Persian subjects Mithras At the culmination, Maestoso e solenne, Vellamo herself is seen in her majesty. (2011) and Ishtar (2012). After a dreamy Tranquillo-section most of the previously heard musical ideas are collected together in a short, fast coda.” Nisula’s works have been in programmes of several Finnish orchestras, including Helsinki Philharmonic and Lahti Symphony Orchestra. His music has also been recently played in different Russian music festivals, in Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod and Perm.

Maestro Bojan Suđić, the most distinguished Serbian conductor today, has been, conductor of the UNIMI Orchestra, Milan. Maestro Suđić has collaborated with for more than a decade, the music director of the Music Production Department a number of the most prominent international artists such as Maxim Vengerov, of Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) and the chief conductor of its two renowned Vadim Repin, Nigel Kennedy, Ivo Pogorelić, Denis Matsuev, Nikolai Lugansky, ensembles – the RTS Symphony Orchestra and the RTS Choir. He is both a Michel Béroff, Shlomo Mintz, Emmanuel Pahud, Placido Domingo, Željko Lučić, professor conducting at the Faculty of Music, Belgrade University of Arts and the Nemanja Radulović and many others. chief conductor of the Symphony Orchestra of this academic institution. Serbian music critics defined him as “the leading name among conductors in His artistic and professional career has been built upon a complex and rich Serbian music” (Sonja Marinković, Belgrade), while Finnish critic Mats Liljeros repertoire consisting of symphonic, choral, opera and ballet music. He has also (Huvudstadsbladet, Helsinki) described Maestro Suđić with the following words: become celebrated for directing and conducting large scale on-stage concerts, “...a natural talent with an exceptional style and one of the most beautiful numbering more than five hundred musician performers -Symphony No. 8 by techniques I have ever seen.” Gustav Mahler, Requiems by Hector Berlioz and Giuseppe Verdi, Carmina Burana by Carl Orff, etc., as well as for performing concerts in front of large audiences, some exceeding ten thousand people, with the intention of introducing and presenting classical music to broader audiences.

Maestro Suđić is especially dedicated to the promotion of contemporary music. He has conducted premiere performances of numerous pieces by local and international composers, many of which were dedicated to him. He is particularly devoted to promoting the best young artists by giving them important space within the concert season of the Music Production ensembles.

Upon winning the first prize at the Yugoslav Competition of Music Artists in Zagreb in 1989 (later renamed to Lovro fon Matačić International Competition of Young Conductors) maestro Bojan Suđić expanded his professional career to Europe and Latin America, collaborating with more than fifty orchestras and numerous choirs. In addition to being a guest conductor of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra and the Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra, symphony orchestras from Odense, Turku, Klagenfurt, the Helsinki Opera and many other renowned ensembles, M° Suđić has for the past ten years also established and maintained regular collaboration of such nature with the Montenegrin Symphony Orchestra and the OFUNAM from Mexico.

He was the resident conductor of the Royal Swedish Opera, Stockholm, for five years, during which he conducted more than 150 opera and ballet performances. Throughout his career, he has also held the position of chief conductor and general music director of the Opera of the National Theatre in Belgrade, as well aspermanent guest conductor of the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra. Starting from the season 2018/19, maestro Bojan Suđić will become the principal guest © Nebojša Babić THE ENSEMBLE THE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF THE SERBIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION

CHIEF CONDUCTOR AND ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, BOJAN SUĐIĆ

The RTS Symphony Orchestra is one of the most representative orchestral ensembles in Serbia.

Founded in 1937, as part of Radio Belgrade, from the very beginning, the Symphony Orchestra had profiled artistic directions, oriented towards affirmation and nurturing of national music heritage, as well as capital works of world literature. This program policy which was established by the first conducter, Mihailo Vukdargović, has been retained for more than seven decades of long performing practice, which was marked by chief conductors Mladen Jagušt, Vančo Čavdarski and Bojan Suđić, who has been from 2005 till today its artistic director.

Throughout history, the most significant domestic and foreign artists, soloists and conductors have established collaboration with the orchestra. The Symphony Orchestra has performed at all major festivals in Yugoslavia and Serbia, and has also made successful tours across Europe and Africa. In the Sound Archive of Radio Belgrade, hundreds of recordings have been permanently archived, many of which have been published on several dozen sound carriers. In 2008, the RTS Symphony Orchestra, together with its chief-conductor Bojan Suđić, received the “Extraordinary Golden Link” award for great achievements in the cultural and artistic mission, and in celebration of the 70th anniversary of its establishment. It is also the winner of the magazine “Muzika Klasika” annual award for the best orchestral ensemble for 2013.

Today, the RTS Symphony Orchestra is a modern ensemble, which operates within the RTS Music Production, keeping pace with the world tendencies in the interpretation of music. Its repertoire includes significant symphonic, concert and vocal-instrumental pieces of domestic and foreign literature. In its history, the Symphony Orchestra premiered many works of prominent contemporary domestic artists of various generations, and some of these pieces were dedicated to it. The program also includes opera and operetta literature, as well as music of popular genres. It is actively present at concert podiums, in the media and in important social events, positioning itself as a prestigious performer, ready for the most artistic accomplishments.

FIRST VIOLIN KATARINA ALEKSIĆ DOUBLE BASS GORAN KOSTIĆ PETAR ŽIVANOVIĆ MIODRAG PAVLOVIĆ DRAGANA KATIĆ SRĐAN LIŠANIN MARTINA DIMIĆ ALEKSANDRA KLENKOVSKI FLUTE ANA BOGDANOVIĆ RADIĆ RADMILA VARDALIĆ TANJA SIMONOVIĆ HEMNALINA MIRESKOVIĆ DUNJA PETRIĆ, PICCOLO FLUTE MIODRAG PETKOVIĆ MILOŠ POPOVIĆ OBOE DARKO RADIĆ BRANISLAV VUKIĆ JELENA RADOJIČIĆ BELA EREŠ NINA ĆOSIĆ, ENGLISH HORN ALEKSANDRA DIMITRIJEVIĆ BASSOON IVAN JOTIĆ SECOND VIOLIN ALEKSANDAR ĐORELIJEVSKI VOJISLAV JOCIĆ BOJANA JOVANOVIĆ SAŠA BOROVIĆ CLARINET NENAD NEŠIĆ ALEKSANDRA POPOVIĆ VLADIMIR GAGIĆ ALIDA TOMAŠEVIĆ NIKOLA ULEMEK, BASS CLARINET TATJANA MEDENICA MAJA ANTONIJEVIĆ HORN IGOR LAZIĆ KORNELIJA STAMENKOVIĆ JELENA KOCIĆ SONJA VUKAŠIOVIĆ SINIŠA ROKNIĆ DRAGANA PETROVIĆ MIRJANA DUŠIĆ

VIOLA IVANA MANDIČ TRUMPET MLADEN ĐORĐEVIĆ MARINA POPOVIĆ VUK DAJIĆ MILJANA STAMENIĆ NIKOLA MIJAILOVIĆ ĐORĐE PANTELIĆ ALISA FRATER TROMBONE IVAN JOVANOVIĆ NENAD LALOVIČ MILAN MAKSIMOVIĆ DEJAN ROKVIĆ IVICA ĆURČIĆ

CELLO DUŠAN STOJANOVIĆ TUBA MILOŠ BUDIMIROV RADIVOJ SAVIĆ MLADEN ARSENOVIĆ TIMPANO NIKOLA KRASNJUK KATARINA KOKINOVIĆ SRĐAN STANIĆ PERCUSSION ALEKSANDAR ANDREJEVIĆ JOVANA JOCIĆ RUŽICA ARANITOVIĆ DANIJELA MILIĆ ALEKSANDAR RANČIĆ CELESTA NADA MATIJEVIĆ ECCO PREVIOUSLY FEATURED THE FOLLOWING ECCO PREVIOUSLY FEATURED THE FOLLOWING COMPOSERS: ENSEMBLES AND CONDUCTORS:

VIENNA, 2011 Hannes Heher (Austria), Tomi Räisänen (Finland), Archil Giorgo- biani (Georgia), Sérgio Azevedo (Portugal), Črt Sojar Voglar (Slovenia), Lubica ENSEMBLES Čekovská (Slovakia) Quatuor Diotima (Brussels 2018) Wiener Concert-Verein (Vienna 2017) VIENNA, 2013 Benjamin Lang (Germany), Gunnar Berg (Denmark), Roman Berger Sturm und Klang ensemble (Brussels 2015, 2016 and 2017) (Poland), Ulpiu Vlad (Romania), Dušan Bavdek (Slovenia), Dieter Kaufmann (Austria) RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra (Ljubljana 2016) Big Band of RTV Slovenia (Ljubljana 2016) BRUSSELS, 2015 Jean-Luc Fafchamps (Belgium), Máté Balogh (Hungary), Lynne BBC Singers (London 2015) Plowman (UK), Pertti Jalava (Finland), Mihailo Trandafilovski (Macedonia) Silesian Philharmony (Vienna 2013) Chamber Orchestra of Soloists (KOS) of the Society of Slovene Composers LONDON, 2015 Cecilia McDowall (UK), Miłosz Bembinow (Poland), Lasse Thoresen (Vienna 2011) (Norway), Perttu Haapanen (Finland), Bjørn Bolstad Skjelbred (Norway), Mikko Heiniö (Finland), Črt Sojar Voglar (Slovenia), Jonathan Dove (UK), Andrej Makor (Slovenia) CONDUCTORS BRUSSELS, 2016 Michael Berkeley (UK), Julian Grant (UK), Moritz Eggert (Germany), Lorenz Müller and Svetlomir Zlatkov (Vienna 2017) Olli Virtaperko (Finland), Philippe Leroux (France), Peter Helmut Lang (Germany) Thomas Van Haeperen (Brussels 2015, 2016 and 2017) Jessica Cottis (Ljubljana 2016) LJUBLJANA, 2016 SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: John Casken (UK), Jani Golob Sigi Feigl (Ljubljana 2016) (Slovenia), Knut Vaage (Norway), Indra Riše (Latvia), Benjamin de Murashkin James Morgan (London 2015) (Denmark), Ingacy Zalewski (Poland) BIG BAND: Michel Herr (Belgium), Helge Chunghi Min (Vienna 2013) Sunde (Norway), Jukka Linokola (Finland), Outi Tarkiainen (Finland), Piotr Wróbel Jürgen Bruns (Vienna 2011) (Poland), Nikki Iles (UK), Mark Lockheart (UK), Matjaž Mikuletič (Slovenia), Krešimir Herceg (Croatia), Klemen Smolej (Slovenia)

BRUSSELS, 2017 Jukka-Pekka Lehto (Finland), Grégory D’Hoop (Belgium), Denis Bosse (Belgium), Geir Sundbø (Norway) and Kari Beate Tandberg (Norway)

VIENNA, 2017 Aleksandra Chmielewska (Poland), René Eespere (Estonia), Tyler Futrell (Norway), Gerald Resch (Austria), Krešimir Seletković (Croatia), Jennifer Fowler (UK), Lojze Lebič (Slovenia)

BRUSSELS, 2018 Kimmo Hakola (Finland), Paul Pankert (Belgium), Andrea Tarrodi (Sweden), Malte Giesen (Germany), Mihailo Trandafilovski (Macedonia) and Helena Tulve (Estonia). SPECIAL SPECIAL THANKNOTES YOU THANK YOU TO:

The members of the ECCO Artistic Committee: Jana Andreevska, Dušan Bavdek, Lorenzo Carola and Bojan Suđić

Ivana Trišić, Head of CAS and Katarina Lazarević, Secretary General of CAS for their help and support in organizing this year’s ECCO concert

The composers’ societies of each composer featured at tonight’s concert:

Composers Association of Serbia (CAS) Le Forum des Compositeurs (FdC) The Society of Finnish Composers (SSR) The Estonian Composers’ Union (ECU) Unione Nazionale Compositori Librettisti Autori (UNCLA)

The Italian Cultural Institute in Belgrade for their contribution. NOTES SPECIAL THANKNOTES YOU NOTES SPECIAL THANKNOTES YOU FOR MORE INFORMATION: WWW.COMPOSERALLIANCE.ORG | [email protected] TEL: +32 2 544 03 33