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a classical composer, but have met Duke Bojadzhiev when he was working
with the incomparable Esma Redzhepova on one of her tuors of the US.
Duke is a consummate musician and arranger of mostly modern and
traditional music. Dimitri Buzharovski composed a very interesting
symphonic composition during the bombing in the Kosovo crisis. WHen
many of the students at the University of Kiril and Metodi had left the
area or the country becuase of the proximity to Kosovo conflict, the
bombing of which could sometimes be heard from the university itself,
Professor Buzharovski's students stayed on, learning and then performing
in a public spectacle, his symphonic composition based on music from the
Macedonian Vespers service. All of the vocal parts for that particular
composition were written in Church Slavonic and are thus very accessible
for all those used to hearing it. The hours of daily practice and the
public presentation of that particular work are a monument to bravery
during that period in 1999.
His Vecherinki compositions should also be interesting, given his
talent. Vecherinki mean Little evening gatherings in English.
The qaulity of this performance, given it is free, offers a spectacular
opportunity to anyone who can get to it.
Galina
NEW MUSIC FROM THE "FORMER YUGOSLAVIA"
Concert and Discussion with Composers
Selena Arizanovic
Srdjan Berdovic
Dusan Bogdanovic
Duke Bojadziev
Dimitrije Buzarovski
Miodrag Lazarov Pashu
Milica Paranosic
Milos Raickovich
Performances by the Composers and
DС─≥DIVAZ
(Aleksandra Vojcic, Danijela Popovic, Milica Paranosic)
Ilinka Manova, piano
Sandra Vojcic, piano
Pieter van Houwelingen, Baroque flute
Mairi Dorman, cello
& others
Donnell Library Center - Auditorium
20 West 53rd Street, between 5th & 6th Ave. (across MoMA), NYC
(212) 621-0641
Tuesday, June 11, 2002, at 6 P.M.
free admission
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PROGRAM
Two Nocturnes (from the cycle Vecherinki)....Dimitrije Buzarovski (b.
1952)
Balkan Tale (1999)..................................................Duke
Bojadziev (b. 1972)
Ilinka Manova, piano
Time 2 (1981/86), U.S. premiere.................Miodrag Lazarov Pashu
(b. 1949)
Aleksandra Vojcic, piano
Mysterious Habitats (1994).................................Dusan
Bogdanovic (b. 1955)
Three Sketches (1996)
.............................................Srdjan Berdovic (b. 1973)
I Halloween
II Mi
III (a dance?)
Srdjan Berdovic, guitar
Silbere (1999), U.S. premiere..............................Selena
Arizanovic (b. 1972)
for violin, cello and piano,
performers to be announced
Ciaccona (2002), world
premiere.........................................Srdjan Berdovic
Pieter van Houwelingen, Baroque flute
El contorno Variations (2000)..........................Milos Raickovich
(b. 1956)
(music for the Evans Chan film, The Map of Sex and Love)
world premiere
Mairi Dorman, cello
Milos Raickovich, piano
Brief Intermission
CRNE OCI/d'divaz
"CRNE OCI NE VIDELE RAJA, DOSTA STE MI DALE UZDISAJA"
(dark eyes may you never see paradise, youС─≥ve caused me too much
grief)
Music: Milica Paranosic/traditional
Arrangement: DС─≥DIVAZ
Sound realization: Milica Paranosic
Film: Radivoje Andric
DС─≥DIVAZ
Milica Paranosic, Aleksandra Vojcic, Danijela Popovic
Discussion with composers to follow the program
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MEET THE ARTISTS
SELENA ARIZANOVIC (b. 1972, Belgrade), a composer and producer,
currently resides in New York City. She holds Masters Degree in
composition from Northwestern University. Her work has been performed in
the United States, Germany, Netherlands, Hungary, and in the old
country. Selena had produced several multimedia music projects in the
city, including Carnegie Hall and Columbia University. Her innovative
approach to music led her to be selected for competitive Film and TV
music scoring program at USC this fall. Silbere was written and
inspired by AmsterdamС─≥s HET (flute, bass clarinet and piano). More of
SelenaС─≥s music and whereabouts can be found at www.grabochamusic.com
SRDJAN BERDOVIC (b. 1973, Dubrovnik, Croatia), composer, conductor,
lutenist and guitarist, studied at Zagreb Academy of Music and Mannes
College of Music in New York (M.M. in composition and guitar
performance). He currently teaches at the Mannes College. Mr. Berdovic
is performing as a soloist as well as with Six-Hand Guitar Trio and the
Strings С─?nС─≥ Holes Duo with the Dutch flutist Pieter van
Houwelingen.
DUSAN BOGDANOVIC (b. 1955, Belgrade) studied guitar and composition in
Geneva and is presently teaching at the San Francisco Conservatory of
Music. His music is published by Berben in Italy,
Doberman-Yppan in Canada and GSP in the US. He has performed throughout
Europe, Japan and the U.S. He has been described as "a composer of a
masterful craft with a genuine clarity and purity of vision"
(Guitar Review, 2002). "Mysterious Habitats was inspired by a piece of
Francois Couperin with a similar title. It could be described as a
blend of Rock artist Sting, Couperin and the Balkan 5/4 meter." D.B.
DUKE BOJADZIEV (b.1972, Skopje, Macedonia), composer, sound designer and
producer, brings together his ethnic background, jazz improvisational
skills and electro-acoustic experience. After the project
Esma's Dream and the music for the choreodrama Test, Duke moved to
Boston. The studies and work with Richard Boulanger in music synthesis,
brought a new vision and different esthetical approach. Artists like
Esma Redzepova, Bob Moses and Chihiro Yamanaka perform his original
compositions. Duke was recognized with numerous awards and grants, such
as the Joseph Zawinul Award by the Berklee College of
Music. Balkan Tale is inspired by the Macedonian traditional music.
DIMITRIJE BUZAROVSKI (b.1952, Skopje) is an artist with interests in
composition, musicology, computer and electronic music, performance,
teaching and research. Among his works are two symphonies, two
operas, three oratorios, two ballets, three sonatas and a sonatina for
piano, a cycle of nocturnes for piano, a cycle of suites for two pianos,
several piano, synthesizers and other concertos, five vocal cycles, and
chamber and solo music. In addition he has written more than 30 scores
for movies, television shows, theatrical productions, etc. His
compositions have been performed, recorded, and broadcast in Europe and
in
the United States. The piece Vecherinki is a cycle of nine nocturnes for
piano, inspired by Macedonian folk songs.
D'DIVAZ (Milica Paranosic, Danijela Popovic and Aleksandra Vojcic)
formalized their creative bonds in the summer of 1998, upon which they
embarked on a journey of interesting and varied performances. The
Belgrade, Yugoslavia born trio feels equally at home performing at an
old Royal palace in Belgrade as well as at Shine, a hot nightclub in New
York City. Their concerts have taken place at Christ and St.
Stephen's Episcopal Church, a barge on Chelsea Piers, Juilliard Theater,
Allice Tully Hall, Clark Studio Theater, Paul Recital Hall. Their
benefit concert resulted in successful delivery of medical equipment for
a
children's hospital in Belgrade, damaged during NATO bombing in the
Spring of 1999. In addition to their performances in the trio they are
on the faculty of The Juilliard School and Boys/Girls Choir of Harlem
and maintain active freelance life in performance and consulting.
Recently, they have recorded their first album, soon to appear on
Sargasso label (for more information, see www.ddivaz.org).
MAIRI DORMAN, a native of Scotland, has performed as a soloist and
chamber
musician throughout Europe and the United States. She completed her
undergraduate studies in cello performance at the Guildhall School of
Music and Drama in London before pursuing her Masters and
Doctorate degrees at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Recent
venues include St. PatrickС─≥s Cathedral, New York City; the Ravinia
Music Festival, Chicago; and the Ameropa Music Festival, Prague,
where she currently
serves as faculty and guest artist.
MIODRAG LAZAROV PASHU (b. 1949, Skopje) acquired his B.A. in Music with
a major in Composition and M.A. in Aesthetics from the Faculty of Music
at the Belgrade University of Arts. His works have been
performed in Canada, the United States, France, Germany, Austria, Italy,
Holland, Hungary, Sweden, Cuba as well as throughout the former
Yugoslavia. Miodrag Lazarov Pashu lives in Montreal. Time 2, for
piano, is the second composition in a series of works written for
various instruments.
ILINKA MANOVA (b. 1976, Skopje) studied piano with Professor Arbo Valdma
in Cologne, with Prof. Solomon Mikowsky at the Manhattan School of
Music, and at SUNY Purchase with Professor Stephanie
Brown, where she earned her Masters Degree and the Artist Diploma. She
is a winner of the Artists International Competition with the recital in
Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall, NYC (2001) and other awards,
including the prestigious DAAD German scholarship in 1995. Ms. Manova
was also the winner of the Yugoslav National Competition for Musicians,
category-piano, at the last competition held in the Former
Yugoslavia in 1989, in Sarajevo. She has performed in Paris, Rome,
Bonn, Cologne, Monchengladbach, New York City, Senigalia, Thessaloniki,
Skopje, Ohrid, Belgrade, Ljubljana, Sarajevo and other places.
Her repertory includes standard masters as well as contemporary music,
with special focus on new works from her native Macedonia.
MILOS RAICKOVICH (b. 1956, Belgrade), composer and conductor, has lived
in Belgrade, Paris, Los Angeles, Honolulu, Hiroshima and New York. He
currently teaches at The College of Staten Island.
RaickovichС─≥s music is recorded by pianist Margaret Leng Tan and the
Moscow Symphony (conducted by Raickovich) on a CD entitled New
Classicism (Mode label, at www.mode.com). Raickovich is a
contributing author to a recently published book, Hidden Agenda:
U.S./NATO Takeover of Yugoslavia (International Action Center, 2002,
available from www.Leftbooks.com). RaickovichС─≥s music for the
Evans Chan film The Map of Sex and Love had received a nomination for
the best original score at the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival in
2001. El contorno (The Contour) is the main theme of the music for
this film.