Isidora Žebeljan

Isidora Žebeljan (born 1967 in Belgrade , Yugoslavia ) is a Serbian composer of classical music.

Life

Isidora Žebeljan studied composition with Vlastimir Trajković at the Belgrade Music Academy . She has been teaching there since 2002.

Žebeljan wrote over thirty stage music for theater productions in Serbia, Croatia and Montenegro. She composed a film score for Miloš Radivojević and orchestrated the music for her colleague Goran Bregović for the films Die Zeit der Gigeuner , Arizona Dream and Underground by director Emir Kusturica , Der Schlangenkuss by Philippe Rousselot and The Bartholomew Night by Patrice Chéreau .

Her opera Zora D. was premiered in 2003 by David Pountney and Nicola Raab in Amsterdam and at the Vienna Chamber Opera. Since then she has composed three more musical theater pieces, such as the commissioned work Eine Marathon-Familie for the Bregenz Festival . In 2015 Michiel Dijkema staged the opera Nahod Simon at the Musiktheater im Revier in Gelsenkirchen , part of which was realized by MIR in 2009 at the Eichbaumoper in Mülheim an der Ruhr .

In 2006 she was elected to the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and has been a full member there since 2012. In 2012 she was elected to the World Academy of Arts and Sciences (WAAS). Žebeljan has received various awards, in 2014 she was honored with a prize from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean Region.

Isidora Žebeljan is a signatory of the declaration published in 2017 on the common language of Croats , Serbs , Bosniaks and Montenegrins .

Zora D ; A marathon family ; Simon the foundling ; Two heads and a girl

The Horses of Saint Mark; Hum away, hum away strings; Escenas picaras; Deserted Village

personal data
SURNAME	Žebeljan, Isidora
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Serbian classical music composer
DATE OF BIRTH	1967
PLACE OF BIRTH	Belgrade , Yugoslavia