MILICA DJORDJEVIĆ, COMPOSER
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new portrait CD (musica viva vol. 44) awarded the prestigeous German Record Critics’ Award 4/2024 in the new music category!
For Milica Djordjević, composing is an exploration of sound. She dissects and listens to the silence; undulating developments spark large-scale outbursts.
In her music, the composer achieves an incredible density of events, which the BR Symphony Orchestra brings to life in exemplary fashion in this portrait, showcasing works written between 2016 and 2023. The sound quality is simply stupendous. Two world premieres are included. In »Mit o ptici« (Bird Myth), orchestra and choir combine to form an organically-growing, jointly-breathing body of sound: a veritable audio thriller!
For the jury: Marco Frei
29/05/2025
Rdja, for ensemble
MHL Ensemble für Neue Musik
Peter Veale, conductor
19:30 @ MHL / Großer Saal, Lübeck
10/05/2025
The Death of the Star-Knower – petrified echoes of an epitaph in a kicked crystal of time (2009) for string quartet
Fabrik Quartet
16h @ Acht Brücken - Lagerstätte für die mobilen Hochwasserschutzelemente (Rodenkirchener Brücke) 
10/05/2025
Pod vodom raskršća snova
Trio Catch
11:30 @ Milano Musica - Teatro alla Scala, Milano
05/05/2025
World Premiere of Ušća for Baroque Orchestra and Contemporary Ensemble
Collegium Novum Zürich & Orchestra La Scintilla
Jakob Lehmann Conductor
19h @ Opernhaus Zürich
14/03/2025 - 13/04/2025
TRI, for 3 soloists

Carl Rosman, contrabass clarinet
Marco Blaauw, trumpet
Dirk Rothbrust, percussion
@ Richard Siegal's LUNAR CYCLE- Museum Folkwang
29/03/2025
World Premiere of TRI, for 3 soloists
Carl Rosman, contrabass clarinet
Marco Blaauw, trumpet
Dirk Rothbrust, percussion
berlinerfestspiele.de/maerzmusik
20:30h @ Silent Green, Betonhalle Berlin
29/03/2025
Monochrome, light blue darkness
Monochrome Project
@ berlinerfestspiele.de/maerzmusik
17h @ Silent Green, Betonhalle Berlin
Nominated for the German Music Authors' Award 2025 in the category composition orchestra
28/02/2025
Serbian Premiere of Mali svitac, žestoko ozaren i prestravljen nesnošljivom lepotom [Little Firefly, fiercely illuminated and terrified by unbearable beauty], for orchestra
Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra
Jaume Santonja, conductor
20h@ Grand Hall of the Kolarac Foundation
11/02/2025
Role playing 1: strings attached
Marlies Debacker, piano
20h @ unerhörte Musik, BKA Theater Berlin
02/02/2025
Rdja
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Insimul ensemble
20h @ Kvitsøygata 25, Stavanger
16.12.2024 - 13/01/2025
Teaching at Virtual Brass Academy
Abbiati del Disco 2024
new portrait CD (musica viva vol. 44) awarded Album of the Year 2024 in the new music category of the Associazione Nazionale Critici Musicali
Was für ein Blech! STATIONEN VI 2024 – Neue Musik aus NRW
PHOSPHORESCENCE on tour in NRW - concerts and school projects
03/11 – 17:00 – Münster, Musikhochschule
07/11 – 20:00 – Aachen, Klangbrücke
11/11 – 20:00 – Köln, Alte Feuerwache
12/11 – 20:00 – Bielefeld, Tor 6
14/11 – 19:30 – Essen, Szene 10
10/11/2024
Quicksilver, for orchestra
Gürzenich-Orchester Köln
Gergely Madaras, conductor
19 h@ Philharmonie Essen
09/11/2024
Jadarit II, for precussion
Dirk Rothbrust, percussion
NOW! Festival
19 h@ RWE Pavillon Philharmonie Essen
09/11/2024
Treperenje, studija I, for contrabass clarinet
Carl Rosman, contrabass clarinet
NOW! Festival
19 h@ RWE Pavillon Philharmonie Essen
03/11/2024
Treperenje, studija I, for contrabass clarinet
Carl Rosman, contrabass clarinet
Festival Afekt, Tallin
16 h@ Tartu, Heino Elleri Muusikakool, Tubina Saal
02/11/2024
Role playing 1: strings attached
Benjamin Kobler, piano
Festival Afekt, Tallin
16@ Tartu, Heino Elleri Muusikakool, Tubina Saal
21/10/2024
Composition Masterclass
@ Haute école de musique de Genève
30/08/2024
World Premiere of Pomen III
for bass clarinet and violin
Love Songs for Uli

20h @ Studio Ensemble Musikfabrik, Cologne
NEW CD
musica viva vol. 44 – Milica Djordjević
16-22/11/2024
Teaching at the Luxembourg Composition Academy

01-15/08/2024
Teaching at Virtual Brass Academy
09/08/2024
The Death of the Star-Knower: Petrified Echoes of an Epitaph in a Kicked Crystal of Time I & II
Ensemble Mosaik
19:30h @
Kalvs kyrka, Kalv Festival

01/08/2024
PHOSPHORESCENCE
Ensemble Musikfabrik
20h @ Studio Ensemble Musikfabrik, Cologne

live stream on YouTube and Facebook

08/07/2024
Role playing 1: strings attached
Benjamin Kobler, piano
20@  Köln, Studio des Ensemble Musikfabrik

11/06/2024
Role playing 1: strings attached
Marlies Debacker, piano
19:30 @ Kunst-Station St. Peter, Köln

03/06/2024
How to evade?, for oboe and violin
Peter Veale, Oboe
Hannah Weirich, Violin
20@  Köln, Studio des Ensemble Musikfabrik

01/06/2024
How to evade?, for oboe and violin
@ Mostra Sonora
Peter Veale, Oboe
Hannah Weirich, Violin
20:30 @  Sueca (Valencia), Cloister of the Espai Fuster, Sueca

03/05/2024
Monochrome, light blue darkness
@ Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik
Monochrome Project
20h @ Saalbau Witten

27/04/2024
Monochrome, light blue darkness
@ New Music Dublin
Monochrome Project
12:30 @ Dublin Castle, Dublin

25/04/2024
World Premiere of Monochrome, light blue darkness
@ New Music Dublin
Monochrome Project
17h @ Richmond Barracks, New Music Dublin

23/02/2024
Čvor, for winds, brass, piano and percussion
&
Mali svitac, žestoko ozaren i prestravljen nesnošljivom lepotom, for orchestra
@ BR musica viva
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Duncan Ward, conductor
20h @ Herkulessaal der Residenz, München
Introduction
18:45 @ Herkulessaal
concert recording @ BR-Klassik on 05/03 from 20.05

02/02/2024
World Premiere of Mali svitac, između dva treptaja
(Little Firefly, between two blinks) for orchestra
@ Festival ECLAT
Symphonieorchester des SWR
Brad Lubman, conductor
20h @ Theaterhaus T1, Stuttgart

17/01/2024 & 18/01/2024
German Premiere
Jadarit, concerto for percussion and string orchestra @ Elbphilharmonie
Dirk Rothbrust, percussion
Ensemble Resonanz
Friederike Scheunchen, conductor
19:30 @ Elbphilharmonie, Kleiner Saal

17/11/2023
Role playing 1: strings attached
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano
19h @ Konzerthaus Blaibach

16/11/2023
Role playing 1: strings attached (Austrian premiere)
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano
19:30 @ Wiener Musikverein, Großer Saal

21/10/2023
Nailing clouds II

Marco Blaauw, flugelhorn in Es
17:30 @ STUCK, Festival 20.21 Transit, Leuven

19/10/2023

World Premiere of Mali svitac, žestoko ozaren i prestravljen nesnošljivom lepotom
(Little Firefly, fiercely illuminated and terrified by unbearable beauty)
commissioned by the Berliner Philharmoniker Foundation on the occasion of  the Philharmonie’s 60th birthday
Berliner Philharmoniker
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor (standing in for Zubin Mehta)
20h @ Philharmonie Berlin, Main Auditorium | Introduction: 19:15

Further concerts:
Fri 20 Oct 2023, 20:00, Main Auditorium | Introduction: 19:15
Sat 21 Oct 2023, 19:00, Main Auditorium | Introduction: 18:15
Live in the Digital Concert Hall

02/10/2023
Treperenje, studija I (Flicker, study I) for contrabass clarinet
Carl Rosman, contrabass clarinet
20h @ Studio of Ensemble Musikfabrik, Cologne

01/10/2023
Portrait Show Mut und Multibegabung
Studio Neue Musik, WDR 3 @ 23h

11-19 August 2023 - Lecturer at the composition workshop at Schloss Weikersheim

​17/06/2023
​Jadarit, concerto for percussion and string orchestra - BBC Radio 3 New Music Show

01/05/2023
World Premiere of Treperenje, studija I (Flicker, study I) for contrabass clarinet
Carl Rosman, contrabass clarinet 
Festival Acht Brücken

12h @ Baptisterium, Cologne
15:30 @ WDR Funkhaus am Wallrafplatz, Kleiner Sendesaal

01/05/2023
World Premiere of Nailing clouds II
Marco Blaauw, flugelhorn in Es 
Festival Acht Brücken

12h @ Baptisterium, Cologne
15:30 @ WDR Funkhaus am Wallrafplatz, Kleiner Sendesaal

01/05/2023
World Premiere of Jadarit II
Dirk Rothbrust, percussion
Festival Acht Brücken

12h @ Baptisterium, Cologne 
15:30 @ WDR Funkhaus am Wallrafplatz, Kleiner Sendesaal

Nominated for the German Music Authors' Award (Deutscher Musikautor*innenpreis ) in the category composition orchestra

April 12-15 2023

COMPOSER IN FOCUS - Tagung des INMM Darmstadt

February - April 2023
Professor at the International Composition Masterclass LET A MASTER PITCH IN

01/02/2023
German Premiere at ECLAT
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ENSEMBLE MODERN
Enno Poppe, conductor
19h @Theaterhaus Stuttgart

 29/01/2023
World Premiere of Nalet for ensemble
Ensemble Musikfabrik
Ilan Volkov, conductor
20h @ WDR Funkhaus am Wallrafplatz
*concert introduction with Marco Blaauw at 19:30

04/12/2022
I ti hoćeš da se volimo [Und du willst dass wir uns lieben] - for voice and accordion
Frauke Aulbert, voice
Eva Zöllner, accordion
19 Uhr @ art.ist reloaded, Wiesbaden

25/11/2022
Čvor, for winds, brass, piano and percussion
@ rainy days 2022
Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg
Brad Lubman, conductor
19:00 @ Philharmonie Luxembourg, Grand Auditorium

09/11/2022
Rdja
Schallfeld ensemble
20h @ Next Liberty, Graz

06/11/2022
World Premiere
Jadarit, concerto for percussion and string orchestra @ Wien Modern
Dirk Rothbrust, percussion
Ensemble Resonanz
Enno Poppe, conductor
11h @ Musikverein, Großer Saal

03/11/2022
O drveću, nežnosti, Mesecu... for symphony orchestra @ Wien Modern
ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
Marin Alsop, conductor
19:30 @ Wiener Konzerthaus, Großer Saal
Introduction
18:30 @ Wiener Konzerthaus, Wotruba-Salon

28/10/2022
World Premiere of Mit o ptici @ musica viva
Chor & Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Johannes Kalitzke, conductor
20h @ Herkulessaal der Residenz, München

Introduction
18:45 @ Herkulessaal

08/10/2022
World Premiere at ORF musikprotokoll
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ENSEMBLE MODERN
David Niemann, conductor
19:30 @ Helmut List Halle, Graz

03/10/2022
Pod vodom raskršća snova
Ergon Ensemble
19:30 @ Wiener Konzerthaus, Berio Saal

17/09/2022
INDIGO for 2 string quartets
Collegium Novum Zürich
19:30 @ Offene Kirche St. Jakob

COMPOSER IN RESIDENCE - WITTENER TAGE FÜR NEUE KAMMERMUSIK 2022
I
06/05/2022
Dialog.Portrait
Milica Djordjević in conversation with Martina Seeber
mislio bi čovek: zvezde for accordion
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Teodoro Anzellotti, accordion
ENSEMBLE MODERN
Elena Schwarz, conductor
11h @ Märkisches Museum Witten

II
06/05/2022
composer talk @ 14h

III
06/05/2022
Do You Know How to Bark? : non-communication for solo contrabass 2.1.1
Florentin Ginot, Contrabass
20h @ Johanniskirche, Witten

IV
07/05/2022
World Premiere
O drveću, nežnosti, Mesecu... for symphony orchestra
WDR Symphony Orchestra
Bas Wiegers, conductor
16h @ Saalbau Witten, Theatersaal

05/02/2022
zurück in der Zukunft
FAIL again World Premiere
E-Geige, Hannah Weirich
Orgel, Ulrich Löffler
18h @ Festival Eclat Stuttgart

20/01/2021
Role-playing 1: strings attached for piano
Tamara Stefanovich, piano
19:30h @ Philharmonie Luxembourg, Salle de Musique de Chambre

19/01/2022
Quicksilver (2016)
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Jonathan Stockhammer, conductor
20h @ Ultraschall Berlin Festival, Haus des Rundfunks Großer Sendesaal des rbb

12/01/2022
Sky limited (2014)
Ensemble Resonanz
Emilio Pomàrico, conductor
19:30 @ 5 Jahre Elbphilharmonie

03/12/2021
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Ensemble Modern
Lucie Leguay, conductor
20h @ Mozart Saal, Alte Oper Frankfurt

30/11/2021
Wien Modern Abschlusskonzert
Quicksilver (2016 EA)
Wiener Symphoniker
Beat Furrer, conductor
19:30 @ Wiener Konzerthaus, Großer Saal

30/10/2021
Wien Modern Eröffnungskonzert
Sky limited (2014)
ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
Marin Alsop, conductor
19:30 @ Wiener Konzerthaus, Großer Saal

16/10/2021
Čvor, for winds, brass, piano and percussion - World Premiere
@ 100 Jahre Donaueschinger Musiktage
Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra
Baldur Brönnimann, conductor
20h Baar Sporthalle Donaueschingen
Livestream/VIDEO

07/08/2021
how to evade? (2011) for oboe and violin
Musikfabrik @ 50. Darmstädter Ferienkurse
Peter Veale, oboe & Hannah Weirich, violin
Concert and Livestream @ 19:30, Lichtenbergschule (Große Sporthalle)

01/08/2021
The Death of the Star-Knower – petrified echoes of an epitaph in a kicked crystal of time (2009) for string quartet
Arditti Quartet @ 50. Darmstädter Ferienkurse
Concert and Livestream @ 19:30, Lichtenbergschule (Große Sporthalle)

26/02/2021
Quicksilver for orchestra
hr-Sinfonieorchester – Frankfurt Radio Symphony
Dima Slobodeniouk, conductor
@ hr-Sendesaal Frankfurt - WATCH HERE

28/01/2021
Pod vodom raskršća snova
Trio Catch
20h @
Deutschlandfunk Kultur Konzert

24/01/2021 -Unfortunately, this concert is cancelled
Sky limited for string orchestra
Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester
Lothar Zagrosek, conductor
@ Haus des Rundfunks, Großer Sendesaal des rbb

24/01/2021
Pod vodom raskršća snova
Trio Catch
21h @
rbbKultur Radiokonzert

22/01/2021
Pod vodom raskršća snova
Trio Catch
20h @
Ultraschall Berlin

19/01/2021
nailing clouds
for bassoon solo
James Aylward, bassoon
20h @ Unerhörte Musik, live stream - WATCH HERE

07-10.12.2020
Klassenarbeit I
mentor of a masterclass with ensemble recherche and composition students from Tel Aviv & Manchester

01/12/2020
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Ensemble Modern
Enno Poppe, conductor
20h @ Kölner Philharmonie
LIVE STREAM @ philharmonie.tv

28/11/2020
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Ensemble Modern
Enno Poppe, conductor
14:15 @ Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Main Hall
LIVE STREAM @ radio4

10/10/2020
Pod vodom raskršća snova
Scharoun Ensemble
22h @ Philharmonie Berlin

05/10/2020
Rdja
ensemble der/gelbe/klang,
Armando Merino, conductor

20h @ schwere reiter, München

29/09/2020
…würde man denken: Sterne
Eva Zöllner, accordion
16-21h Kulturspritze in Hamburg @ Die Bedürfnisanstalt

27/09/2020
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Rdja for ensemble
Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic
Enno Poppe, conductor
18:45 and 20:45 @ Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Kleiner Saal

27/09/2020
…würde man denken: Sterne
Eva Zöllner, accordion
10-15h Kulturspritze in Hamburg @ Die Bedürfnisanstalt

22/09/2020
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Rdja for ensemble
Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic @ Musikfest Berlin on the occasion of the Claudio-Abbado-Composition-Prize
Enno Poppe, conductor
20h @ Philharmonie Berlin, Main Hall - read more

18/09/2020
Und du willst dass wir uns lieben, for soprano and accordion
…würde man denken: Sterne, for accordion solo
Frauke Aulbert, Stimmkünstlerin
Eva Zöllner, accordion
20 Uhr @ Galerie des WELTECHO Chemnitz

06/08/2020
Pod vodom raskršća snova (2019)
Carl Rosman, clarinet, Ulrich Löffler, piano & Dirk Wietheger, violoncello
CONCERTINI 17 -
17:30h and 19h @ Studio of Ensemble Musikfabrik, Cologne
LIVESTREAM: www.facebook.com/Musikfabrik/

18.07 - 01.08. 2020
The Darmstadt Summer Course is postponed until the summer of 2021

15/07/2020
How to evade
Peter Veale, oboe & Hannah Weirich, violin
LIVESTREAM: 20h @ deutschlandfunkkultur.de

19/06/2020 - Unfortunately, this concert is cancelled
World Premiere of Mit o ptici
Chor & Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Johannes Kalitzke, conductor
musica viva
19h @ Herkulessaal der Residenz, München

18/06/2020
How to evade
Peter Veale, oboe & Hannah Weirich, violin
CONCERTINI 2
17h and 19h @ Studio of Ensemble Musikfabrik, Cologne
LIVESTREAM: www.facebook.com/Musikfabrik/

03/06/2020 - Unfortunately, this concert is cancelled
World Premiere of INDIGO R-offprint 1
for string quartet
Alma Quartet
20:15 h @ Concertgebouw, Amsterdam

23/05/2020
...mislio bi čovek: zvezde
[...würde man denken: Sterne]

Livestream: Eva Zöllner »In sechs Richtungen«

05/04/2020 - Unfortunately, this concert is cancelled
Rdja
ensemble der/gelbe/klang,
Kasper de Roo, conductor
Eröffnungskonzert für Workshop Jugend komponiert
Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, kleiner Konzertsaal


27/03/2020 - Unfortunately, this concert is cancelled
ZAPIS, for 12 percussionists
Percussionists of the FHWN
Christian Dierstein
19:30 @ Musik-Akademie Basel, Grosser Saal

21/02/2020
...mislio bi čovek: zvezde
[...würde man denken: Sterne]

Eva Zöllner, accordion
19.15 @
eavesdropping, London

30/11/2019
...mislio bi čovek: zvezde
[...würde man denken: Sterne]

Anne-Maria Hölscher, accordion
15h @ Festival Rainy Days Luxembourg

13/11/2019

Rdja @ Wien Modern
Klangforum Wien
19:30 @ Wiener Konzerthaus, Mozart-Saal, Vienna


11/11/2019
FAIL, for cello and live electronics
Francesco Dillon, cello
19h @
Musikclub Mehrspur, Zurich

10/11/2019
World Premiere of role-playing 1: strings attached
Tamara Stefanovich's Art of the Étude
16h @ Milton Court Concert Hall, Barbican, London

10/10/2019

Rdja
Klangforum Wien
19:30 @ Solti-Saal, Franz-Liszt-Musikakademie, Budapest

07/10/2019

PHOSPHORESCENCE
Ensemble Musikfabrik
20h @ Studio Ensemble Musikfabrik, Cologne

26/09/2019

...mislio bi čovek: zvezde
[...würde man denken: Sterne]

Eva Zöllner, accordion
21h @ Kölner Dom, Cologne

18/09/2019

Rdja
Esbjerg Ensemble
19:30 @ Musikhuset Esbjerg, Denmark

16/09/2019

Rdja
Esbjerg Ensemble
19:30 @ HEART - Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning, Denmark

15/09/2019

nailing clouds
for bassoon solo
Ein Wink in die Zukunft with participants of the ARD International Music Competition
11h @ whiteBOX, Atelierstraße 18, Munich

12/09/2019
6 x World Premiere! of
nailing clouds
for bassoon solo
@ ARD International Music Competition
16h @ Prinzregententheater, Munich
*Video Livestream available*



*highlights*

14-28 July 2018
Teaching at Darmstadt Summer Course 2018
Workshop on composing for trumpet with Rebecca Saunders and Marco Blaauw
Workshop for composer and percussionists with Christian Dierstein and Håkon Stene

November 2017

rocks-stars-metals-light is out!!!
My second portrait CD is just released and it's boiling with breathtaking performances by the Münchener Kammerorchester, Ensemble recherche, Armida Quartett and Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks!!! Thanks everyone who made this magic possible and, of course, to the
Ernst von Siemens Foundation that has supported it! Enjoy!

August 2017
My
first monographic CD and prodigious, inspiring and passionate performances by Ensemble Musikfabrik, Teodoro Anzellotti, Truike van der Poel, Arditti Quartet, Johannes Schöllhorn and Francesco Dillon - was awarded Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik!
Awarded Ernst von Siemens Composers' Prize 2016
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