Ana Gnjatović
composer
Upcoming Events
November 2025
Monday, 17 November, at 6:00 p.m. Opening of the exhibition ‘Heroines: The Power of Roma Women’, SASA Gallery of Science and Technology, Belgrade. The exhibition was conceived by the team working on the project ‘Heroines: Empowering Roma Women through Networks of Solidarity’, and it is organised by the Institute of Ethnography SASA, the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Roma Women’s Centre Bibija, and the SASA Gallery of Science and Technology.
Past Events
December 2023
Concerts Composer / Performer by Ensemble Studio 6 with Miša Cvijović and Ana Gnjatović
December 8, 20h, Festive Hall of the First Grammar School, Kragujevac
December 9, 20h, ARTGET Gallery, Belgrade (more details under the poster)
December 8, 20h, Festive Hall of the First Grammar School, Kragujevac
December 9, 20h, ARTGET Gallery, Belgrade (more details under the poster)
Two new works by a Berlin-based Miša Cvijović and myself came out of the collaboration with an amazing Ensemble Studio 6. Exploring improvisation, performer self-reflection, modular form, open and graphic elements, narration and spoken word, Ista daljina, merena raznim potrebama (The Same distance, measured by various needs) is a score that sounds different with every performance.
Program:
Ana Gnjatović (1984)
Ista daljina, merena raznim potrebama for the counting woman, chamber ensemble and electronics (2023) – premiere
Catherine Kontz (1976)
Tea ceremony for harp (2005)
Miša Cvijović (1984)
Impro – wise, sound experiment for an ensemble (2023) – premiere
Soloistis:
Ana Gnjatović, voice and electronics
Miša Cvijović, piano and electronics
Milana Zarić, harp
Karolina Bäter, flute and recorder
Christoph Jahn, cello
Vladimir Blagojević, accordion
Program:
Ana Gnjatović (1984)
Ista daljina, merena raznim potrebama for the counting woman, chamber ensemble and electronics (2023) – premiere
Catherine Kontz (1976)
Tea ceremony for harp (2005)
Miša Cvijović (1984)
Impro – wise, sound experiment for an ensemble (2023) – premiere
Soloistis:
Ana Gnjatović, voice and electronics
Miša Cvijović, piano and electronics
Milana Zarić, harp
Karolina Bäter, flute and recorder
Christoph Jahn, cello
Vladimir Blagojević, accordion
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!!! Update November 2024 !!!
ARSFID [Ars-Femina-Identitas] - History and identity of female artists in Serbian modern art – creating a source for scientific and artistic transposition is a significant project dedicated to "creating the first digital open database on Serbian female artists from the 20th century onward and on building capacity for its scientific and artistic use". You can read more about the mission and achievements on the project webpage, and browse through the database of some amazing female artists. My biography, patiently collected and carefully edited by musicologist Ivana Miladinović Prica, is also there. Among many published materials, conference proceedings Identitet umetnice u srpskoj modernoj umetnosti were recently published. In the paper titled "Woman Composer-Performer: Creation as Performance / Performance as Creation – The Same Distance Measured by Various Needs for a Woman Who Counts, Chamber Ensemble and Electronics by Ana Gnjatović", musicologist Biljana Leković analyzes and reflects on the aforementioned work in a contemporary way, in the context of different roles and models of communication and re-interpretation between the composer, performer, and audience. You can read the entire paper in Serbian here. |
Read more and check out the photos from the conference (ser).
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November 2023
Sanja Donić tours with a concert program Female Composers in Serbian Music of 20th and 21st Century. Great piano solo repertoire featuring works by M. Stojadinović Milić, S. Gajić, V. O. Nešić, M. Milosavljević, LJ. Marić, and my 22 Ways.
November 27, 21h, ARTGET Gallery, Belgrade
December 04, 20h, Djura Jakišić Gallery, Kragujevac
November 27, 21h, ARTGET Gallery, Belgrade
December 04, 20h, Djura Jakišić Gallery, Kragujevac
June 2023
ensemble mise-en performs Forest Migrations (2022) for chamber ensemble at MISE-EN MUSIC FESTIVAL 2023.
June 22, 20h, National Opera Center, New York, together with works by Yang Liu, Bryndan Moondy, Jeff Nichols, Patrick Marcland.
June 22, 20h, National Opera Center, New York, together with works by Yang Liu, Bryndan Moondy, Jeff Nichols, Patrick Marcland.
April 2023
Tea & Oranges (2003) for flute and piano at Flauta & Me - 2nd Flute meeting and Festival of students and professors of Music Academies from the Region (Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, North Macedonia, Slovenia).
April 22, 2023, 1830h, Kulturna stanica Svilara, Novi Sad. Anita Trnavac, flute, Radan Jovanović, piano.
April 22, 2023, 1830h, Kulturna stanica Svilara, Novi Sad. Anita Trnavac, flute, Radan Jovanović, piano.
March 2023
E-MEX-Ensemble performs Forest Migrations (2022) for chamber ensemble.
March 31, 2023, 1930h, Alte Feuerwache Köln (Bühne). SELF-(UN)WINDING concert, with works by Mio Chareteau, Monika Szpyrka, Annesley Black, Sara Glojnarić, Johannes Kreidler
March 31, 2023, 1930h, Alte Feuerwache Köln (Bühne). SELF-(UN)WINDING concert, with works by Mio Chareteau, Monika Szpyrka, Annesley Black, Sara Glojnarić, Johannes Kreidler
February 2023
The album Music for the Missing Butterflies by Ensemble Metamorphosis is published by PANTOPIA Music Label! Featuring mind-blowing 3D sound renders of amazing performances of string orchestra works by Arvo Part, Vladimir Trmčić, Dmitri Shostakovich, and the title piece by Ana Gnjatović.
"The extraordinary recording ‘Music for the Missing Butterflies’ by Ensemble Metamorphosis is committed to the present, with a glance at the past and an uncertain future. The Serbian string ensemble’s programme focuses on moving works by ex-Yugoslav, ex-Soviet composers of all generations.Although written at radically different times, each of these compositions reads as a response to humanity’s present struggles and the capacity of the human mind and heart to face uncertainty and restlessness. The human capacity for creation and rebirth was the central guiding idea in compiling this programme. The range of emotional states can be traced through the works in this edition, from endurance, resistance, adaptability, acceptance and fear to confrontation and forgiveness." (text and photo from pantopia-music.org/)
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Vrtoglavica, electronic cadenza for J.N.P. Royer's Le Vertigo performed by Nada Kolundžija at IX festival savremene klavirske muzike FORTE PIANO.
February 23, 20h, KIC "Budo Tomović", Podgorica (ME). |
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January 2023
E-MEX-Ensemble premieres Leftovers of Eternity (2022) for chamber ensemble, percussionst/narrator, electronics, and video. The piece was commissioned by the E- MEX Ensemble, funded by the German Minister of State for Culture and the Media
as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR initiative.
January 20, 2023, 20h, Anneliese Brost Musikforum Bochum. First performance. Part of FLEISCH concert series. (photo from e-mex.de)
as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR initiative.
January 20, 2023, 20h, Anneliese Brost Musikforum Bochum. First performance. Part of FLEISCH concert series. (photo from e-mex.de)
January 14, 2023, Matthias Geuting performs Zugzwang for organ (2022) at Tage für Zusammenkünfte, Essen (DE).
December 2022
Ensemble Metamorphosis performs RECTANGLING (2006) at the opening of MetaWorld Festival. Concert About Life, Secret, and Religion. Free entry.
December 11, 2022, 20h, Bioskop Balkan, Beograd.
November 2022
Aratos trio performs Ticking 22 (2022).
Wednesday, November 2, 19h, Jewish Community of Belgrade, Grand Hall. First performance.
Thursday, November 3, 19h, University Gallery, Kragujevac.
Thursday, November 3, 19h, Gallery of the Faculty of Arts, Kosovska Mitrovica. Festival SPIK, opening.
Music for the Missing Butterflies (2021), video projection.
Music for the Missing Butterflies (2021), video projection.
October 2022
Friday, October 14, 20h, Kunst-Station Sankt Peter Köln.
Orgelmixturen 2022 Festival für Zeitgenössische Orgelmusik. Zugzwang for organ (2022). Commissioned by Matthias Geuting.
First performance.
"Zugzwang is a situation in chess in which ‘the obligation to make a move in one’s turn is a serious, often decisive, disadvantage.’ I do not play chess, but I find that we brought all the societal relationships and the whole planet to the state of constant reciprocal zugzwang. The composition is inspired by the faiths of two birds and by the conversation between Edouard and the old La Pérouse, from André Gide’s Les Faux-monnayeurs (XVIII).
I am long past the idea of a single chord as a lasting (or repeating) state of tranquility, but, at the same time, I find every attempt of progression as a new failure. After each intervention, the chord wears out just a bit more, and its growing world frustrates the performer just a bit more."
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October 11-14, Black Page Orchestra Tour, organized by Maja Bosnić and Zabuna.org. Tuesday, October 11, 20h, Kolarac Concert Hall, Belgrade. Thursday, October 13, 18h, Faculty of Arts Niš. Friday, October 14, 20h, City Concert Hall, Novi Sad. Forest Migrations for ensemble and electronics (2022). New version, Serbian premiere. The piece was originally commissioned and premiered by the E-MEX Ensemble, made possible by generous support from the Kunststiftung NRW. "In their attempt to run away from us, the forests move upward and to the north. The movements are so slow it takes a generation to notice them. I was building a large and quiet, slow-breathing world. It is a forest full of rustling sounds, cracks, sighs, full of muffled voices and distant stories told by those who have already moved away – upward and to the north. Or it could be a short piece about rapid destruction." |
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Tuesday, October 4, 20h, SKC Belgrade. 31st International Review of Composers. Music for the Missing Butterflies for string orchestra and video (2021). Metamorphosis Ensemble.
You can hear the recording of the past performance here.
"Science estimates that many yet undiscovered species are on the verge of extinction. Butterflies have four wings and, between them, a long thin heart. Quiet, high, and pulsating music ends with a paraphrase of Amin from Opelo by Stevan Stojanović Mokranjac. It is dedicated to the worlds of small sounds and sounds behind the music that we write off before we get to know them."
July 2022
Sketches for an Escape Plan for vocal ensemble (2022) at the closing concert of DAR_Druskininkai Artists' Residence. New Vocal Music Collective Melos.
July 2, 1930h, Mergelės Marijos Škaplierinės bažnyčia, Druskininkai
July 2, 1930h, Mergelės Marijos Škaplierinės bažnyčia, Druskininkai
Pesma radu, electronic part for the seventh movement of the seminal piece of Yugoslav symphonic music, Simfonija Orijenta (Balkanofonija) by Josip Slavenski.
July 1, 21h, Atrium of Captain Miša's Mansion (Atrijum Rektorata Univerziteta u Beogradu).
After decades since the last performance of Slavenski's Simfonija Orijenta, the spectacular, contemporary multimedia production was made possible through dedicated work of Igor Sarajlić, conductor and author of the project, students and professors of the Faculty of Arts Zvečan-Kosovska Mitrovica, and Art Ensemble of the Ministry of Defence "Stanislav Binički". In collaboration with actor and vocalist Ana Sofrenović, I created an electronic part to accompany choir and orchestra in the final movement of the symphony.
July 1, 21h, Atrium of Captain Miša's Mansion (Atrijum Rektorata Univerziteta u Beogradu).
After decades since the last performance of Slavenski's Simfonija Orijenta, the spectacular, contemporary multimedia production was made possible through dedicated work of Igor Sarajlić, conductor and author of the project, students and professors of the Faculty of Arts Zvečan-Kosovska Mitrovica, and Art Ensemble of the Ministry of Defence "Stanislav Binički". In collaboration with actor and vocalist Ana Sofrenović, I created an electronic part to accompany choir and orchestra in the final movement of the symphony.
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Vrtoglavica, electronic cadenza for J.N.P. Royer's Le Vertigo In 2020, I was invited by the wonderful pianist and dedicated promoter of new music Nada Kolundžija to write an electronic cadenza, a short acousmatic work, that would accompany this exciting 1746 harpsichord piece. It was quite an inspiring quest to match the virtuosic baroque tantrums in buzzing electronics. July 1, 20h, Grand Hall of the City Assembly of Beograd. Nada Kolundžija, piano. "To be able to continue its dizzying movement, at one point Vertigo was plugged in. The oscillators provided the easiness of the irregular repetition, but by then, the material was already damaged. The texture was impoverished, the endings were torn, and the surface was almost transparent. Almost no one noticed." |
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My Garden without Me #4: Tree Bark RecipesProud to present www.treebarkrecipes.com , a collection of sound works showing befores and afters of insects inhabiting a single littleleaf linden (Tilia cordata). You can listen to sound works created by amazing artists from around the wounded planet.
It is a part of a bigger project I conceptualized and curate, My garden without me, dealing with listening to and imagining the world during anthropause. It is a constructed archive of faked field recordings, imaginary soundscapes and following photo, video, and text-based documentation. Several amazing artists contributed to this collection and I am grateful and proud to know them (in no particular order): Maja Bosnić, Lottie Sadd, Francesca Le Lohé, Teodora Stepančić, Lynette Quek, Marija Šumarac, Damian Scholl, Manja Ristić, Johnny Chang & Hana Patterson-Chang, Andreja Andrić, Ljubomir Nikolić, bbob drake, I’m My Own Merry-go-round, Maximiliano Bober, Pradit Saengkrai. |
Art by Jelena Novaković
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PIANO+ #24 ... recorded spaces
https://teodora.stepancic.com/piano_plus_24/
Teodora Stepančić, curates piano+, "a concert series dedicated to new and rarely heard music". This time, together with Gabriela Areal and Assaf Gidron, we created an interactive website where you can immerse yourself in sounds and images of cities, mornings, birds, chords. We plan to add and change material, and keep sharing the spaces of Belgrade, Buenos Aires ,and Brooklyn.
Music for the Missing Butterfliesfor string orchestra and video (2021)
This is a more recent piece of mine, written for Ensemble Metamorphosis and their concert Sun Moon Stars | Life, premiered 28 March 2021. Deep involved with the My Garden without Me project, I was imagining the sound world of the immaterial butterflies. 
RECTANGLINGfor 16 strings (2006)
performance by bco ljubica marić. rade pejčić, conductor. festival KoMA '3, the belgrade philharmonic hall, belgrade, 2006 (live recording). This piece is a short research into the use of visual and geometrical elements in string orchestra music. Drawing inside the sound, sounding inside a space. Dot - line - plane. Symmetry, and one fountain in Budapest. |
Phonation - Mix 2
for voice and electronics
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Auscultation: Tin Cryfor accordion solo (2013)
dedicated to Vladimir Blagojević Some metals such as tin, indium, gallium, zinc, and I think it is similar with people too, emit a certain silent crackling sound when they are folded – tin cry. The crackling sound is the result of the change in the crystal structure of the metal: under the influence of mechanical force a large number of atoms move at a high speed in the same direction starting a sound wave. It is possible to restore the original crystal structure of the metal by melting it. |
