Milica Djordjević, composer
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Milica Djordjević (1984, Belgrade, Serbia) graduated composition from the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, where she also finished studies of Sound and Music Recording and Production as well as specialized training in electronic music. She finished postgraduate specialist studies in composition at Conservatoire National de Region de Strasbourg in the class of Ivan Fedele (2007-2009) and graduated with honors. She continued her professional accomplishments in Paris, where she was enrolled in composition and computer music Cursus1 at IRCAM (2009-2010).
Lives and studies in Berlin.

Djordjević has attended various composition master classes, courses and festivals – YoungArtistFestival (Germany, 2003), International Bartỏk Seminar and Festival (Hungary, 2004), International Summer Academy Prague-Vienna-Budapest (Austria, 2005), International Young Composers Meeting and International Gaudeamus Music Week 2006 (The Netherlands), Acanthes 2007, 2009 and 2010 (France), Workshop for Contemporary String Quartet Music (Blonay, Switzerland, 2008), International Review of Composers (Belgrade, Serbia, 2006, 2008, 2010),  festival KoMA’ (Belgrade, Serbia, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2010), 44th International Summer Course for New Music (Darmstadt, Germany, 2008), Ars Musica (Brussels, Belgium, 2009), Impuls Academy (Graz, Austria, 2011) ...
Since 2011 she is member of Knowledge Committee of Serbia and Klangnetz Association in Berlin.

She has been awarded numerous prizes and scholarships (Awarded the 8th Berlin-Rheinsberger Kompositionspreis 2013, The Winner of the Lucerne Festival Composition Competition 2013, Alfred Toepfer Scholarship, won the 8th TICF Competition 2012, Nikola Tesla Award for 2011, Scholarship for talents of the Serbian Government 2008, First Prize at the ISA05 for the composition SIVO [Gray], the Third Prize at the 12th YCM Apeldoorn for the composition Opsena nigdine, Minotaur, ili šta? [Mirage of Nowhere, Minotaur of What?], Finalist of the StaubachPreis competition in Darmstadt 2008, selected for the ISCM World New Music Days 2011, nominated for the April Prize of the City of Belgrade etc.) 
... and worked with ensembles and performers such as the Arditti Quartet, Neue Vocalsolisten, musikFabrik, ensemble Alternance, ensemble l'arsenale, Luca Pfaff, Jean Deroyer, Sylvio Gualda, Cerys Jones, Orchestre National de Lorraine, on_line_vienna, Ereprijs...

Djordjević's music has been performed and broadcasted in Serbia, Croatia, Macedonia, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Austria, The Netherlands, Denmark, the United Kingdom, USA, Thailand...

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