Maja Osojnik

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Maja Osojnik (2018)

Maja Osojnik (* 1976 in Kranj , Yugoslavia ) is a Slovenian singer, flautist and composer. In her oeuvre she combines new music , folk music , jazz and electronic music , often in an experimental way .

Life

The Slovenian musician Maja Osojnik, who lives in Vienna, has made a name for herself as a recorder, singer, composer and electronics technician in various projects of old, new, experimental and heavy music. Growing up in Slovenia, Osojnik has lived in Vienna ( Austria ) since the mid-1990s . From 1995 to 2003 she studied recorder at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna . In addition to the concert and master training for recorder, she studied singing from 2002 to 2003. From 2005 to 2007 he studied jazz singing at the Vienna Conservatory with Ines Reiger .

Maja Osojnik (2016)

In 2003 she was a founding member of the Low Frequency Orchestra , an ensemble for contemporary improvised and composed music, which is also dedicated to experiments such as setting a cycle of pictures by Robert Lettner to music. She also leads the Maja Osojnik Quartet and the Maja Osojnik Band . In 2015 she opened the Saalfelden Jazz Festival with a commissioned composition ; In 2016 she presented her first solo program Let Them Grow at the Moers Festival . In the duo Rdeča Raketa, she and Matija Schellander improvise with electronic and analog sound sources, field recordings , beats, spoken word and, at the Donaueschinger Musiktage 2019, also with the video art of Billy Roisz . Other projects with Osojnik's participation and different musical orientations include the bands and ensembles Broken.Heart.Collector , Plenum , FruFru , Subshrubs , the Mikado Ensemble - among others with joint projects with the Strottern . For the Austrian film drama One of Us by Stephan Richter from 2015, she created the film music together with Matija Schellander.

Awards and grants

  • 1990: 1st prize in the XIX Chamber Music category Music competition of Slovenia with Camerata Carniola
  • 1990: Scholarship from the Antwerp International Theater School ( Belgium )
  • 1995–2000: Scholarship from the Slovenian Ministry of Culture
  • 2000: 3rd place in the “Gradus ad Parnassum” competition (Austria) in the solo recorder category and special prize for the composition Ancor 2000
  • 2000: Master class scholarship from "Amherst international" ( Boston , USA )
  • 2001: Scholarship from the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture
  • 2004: 1st prize of the IYAP -EM in Antwerp with the Ensemble Mikado
  • 2005: “Voices” award from the Vienna Jazz Festival
  • 2007: “SKE Publicity Prize” (social and cultural institutions of austro mechana ) with the Low Frequency Orchestra
  • 2008: Artist of the year of Jeunesse
  • 2009: Scholarship for composition from the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture
  • 2010: MiA Award in the Art and Culture category
  • 2014: Dar Artist Residency Scholarship AIR in Lithuania
  • 2014: Annual scholarship SKE - FONDS AUSTRIA
  • 2014: Prize for the composition City of Vienna

Discography (selection)

  • oblaki so rdeči - the clouds are red , Maja Osojnik Quartet (2007), label Jazzwerkstatt Records
  • S , Low Frequency Orchestra (2008), label unison records
  • Can She Excuse? , Ensemble Mikado (2008), label Gramola
  • Born is the babe - Christmas Music and Songs from the Renaissance , Ensemble Mikado (2009), label Gramola
  • Črne Vode - Black Waters - Schwarze Wasser , Maja Osojnik Band (2010), label: viennese soulfood records
  • old girl, old boy , Rdeča Raketa (2010), label Mosz
  • MOLE , Low Frequency Orchestra & Wolfgang Mitterer (2010), labels: chamfu nocords & freistil
  • Broken.Heart.Collector , Broken.Heart.Collector (2011), cooperation between the labels: Discorporate Rec. (DE), Rock is Hell rec. (A), Interstellar rec. (A), Japan: Moorwork rec.
  • We Will , Rdeča Raketa (2013), label: God records
  • L'Image de la Solitude n'est pas nett , Maja Osojnik (2013), label Early Morning Melody

Web links

Commons : Maja Osojnik  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Low Frequency Orchestra - Information about the ensemble
  2. ↑ "The game of coming and going" - The Low Frequency Orchestra interprets a color score by the artist Robert Lettner. Retrieved August 2, 2020 .
  3. ↑ The Duo Rdeča Raketa at the Donaueschinger Musiktage 2019. April 30, 2020, accessed on August 2, 2020 .
  4. ↑ diestandard.at : And the MiA goes to ... , March 8, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Osojnik, Maja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovenian singer, flautist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Kranj , SR Slovenia