Maja Bosnić

Maja Bosnić is Assistant Lecturer in Composition at the Faculty of Music, University of Arts in Belgrade. She holds a PhD diploma in Music Composition and MA in Music Pedagogy, and is currently studying for PhD in Transdisciplinary Studies of Contemporary Arts and Media in Belgrade, researching theory behind conceptual music and possible ways of classifying it.

Her first composition lessons took place at the Irish Composition Summer School in Limerick and the Festival of Young Artists in Bayreuth in 2003. From 2004 to 2007 she studied composition with prof. dr. Svetlana Savić and prof. Milan Mihajlović at Academy of Arts in Novi Sad and continued with prof. Roger Redgate at the Goldsmiths University of London. She completed master studies in Composition in 2008, and proceeded with postgraduate studies earning a PhD diploma in Music Composition in 2015 from the Goldsmiths University of London.

In parallel to composition studies, from 2003 to 2007 she studied Music Theory and Pedagogy at the Faculty of Music, University of Arts in Belgrade, and received Master’s diploma in Music Pedagogy with major thesis in Music Analysis, supervised by composer prof. Miloš Zatkalik. She shortly studied Harpsichord at the Faculty of Music, University of Arts in Belgrade, as well as Modern Greek Language at the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade.

She was awarded a scholarship In memoriam Iannis Xenakis by Delian New Music Academy to have a work premiered by Klangforum Wien ensemble, Donaueschinger Muziktage 2014 scholarship for the Next Generation Student Festival programme, and was awarded annual grants by the Ministry of Youth of the Republic of Serbia five years in a row (2008/09 – 2012/13).

Since 2010, she manages and curates contemporary music projects, events, concerts and lectures at the Zabuna Association – organization she founded to support development of new music scene in Belgrade. Her works Zabuna on Stage were performed around Europe with the support of Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia , Secretariat for Culture, Goethe-Institut and European Cultural Foundation. In 2020, she received a 3rd Prize at the “New Music Generation 2020” – Second International Competition of Composers in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, and the Honorable Mention at Thailand New Music and Arts Symposium in Bangkok, Thailand.