Sascha Dragićević

Sascha Janko Dragićević (born March 6, 1969 in Bonn - Bad Godesberg ) is a German composer .

Life

Born and raised in Bonn in 1969, Dragićević studied at the Cologne University of Music from 1990 . His teachers there included Krzysztof Meyer and York Höller (composition), Hans Ulrich Humpert (electronic composition), Klaus Oldemeyer (piano), Christoph Caskel (contemporary chamber music) and Paulo Álvares (improvisation). He took composition courses with Klaus Huber , György Ligeti , Helmut Lachenmann , Karlheinz Stockhausen , Mauricio Kagel and Georg Katzer .

For his works, which have been performed and recognized internationally, Dragićević has received numerous awards, such as: B. 2004 the Bernd-Alois-Zimmermann-Scholarship of the city of Cologne. In the recent past he worked a. a. together with Collegium Novum Zurich , Ensemble Adapter, the International Ensemble Modern Academy , the Paris Ensemble Cairn, the Minguet Quartet, the pianist Susanne Kessel , as well as with the instrumental-electroacoustic ensemble Soundspaces. Dragićević gives concerts as a soloist of his own piano works, as well as in the field of improvised music .

In addition to pure instrumental and vocal music, he works in the field of electroacoustic composition . Here the focus of his work lies in the connection of instrumental sounds with live electronics and fixed electroacoustic sounds. He worked u. a. at the Institute for Music and Acoustics at the Center for Art and Media Technology in Karlsruhe, the Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology (ICST) in Zurich, the studio for electronic music at the University of Music Cologne, and the studio for electroacoustic music at the University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar . His works have been published by Edition Gravis since 2015 .

Sascha Janko Dragićević lives in Berlin .

Awards and grants

• 1998: 1st prize in the composition competition Forum East / West Cologne
• 1998: Composition grant from the Else Heiliger Fund of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation
• 1999: 1st prize at the international AVW Piano Composers Cup
• 1999: 1st prize at the 13th international composition competition of the summer music days Hitzacker
• 2002: Sponsorship award from the Verein der Opernfreunde Bonn
• 2004: Bernd-Alois-Zimmermann-Scholarship from the City of Cologne
• 2007: Sponsorship award at the international composers workshop Franz Liszt in Weimar
• 2008: Working grant at the Künstlerhaus Lukas , funded by the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
• 2008: Working scholarship at the studio for electroacoustic music at the Liszt School of Music Weimar
• 2010: Scholarship at the Institute for Music and Acoustics of the ZKM in Karlsruhe
• 2011: Composition grant from the Berlin Senate
• 2012: Artist in residency at the Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology (ICST) in Zurich
• 2014: Paris scholarship at the Cité Internationale des Arts Paris for 2014/15, funded by the cultural administration of the Berlin Senate

Works

• From the stream of fleeing time periods for piano: No. 1: Approaching distance , No. 2: Approaching distance , 1991–92
• Malerba music for piano, clarinet, violoncello and trombone, 1997–98
• Slipstream for string quartet, version 1, 1998
• Water and Fire Music based on a text by Paul Celan for soprano and six instrumentalists, 1999–2000 / 08
• From the stream of fleeing time periods No. 3: Quarks for piano and electronic sounds, Version 1, 2000–01
• The research trip of Professor Tarantoga Chamber Opera loosely based on the radio and television play of the same name by Stanisław Lem for 6 singers, 10 instruments and electronic sounds / scenes 1, 2 and 5, 2002-04
• Autogamie for bassoon and electronic sounds (7 different versions, also for bassoon solo or as electronic music) (As a composition commission for the Ensemble Modern funded by the Kunststiftung NRW ), 2005-06
• Strings for string quartet and electronic sounds (commissioned by the Liszt School of Music Weimar ), 2008/11
• From the stream of fleeing time periods for piano: No. 5: From near distance (part of Kreisleriana 2010 for Susanne Kessel ), 2009
• Symbioses for saxophone, bassoon, live electronics and electronic feed sounds (funded as a composition commission by the Kunststiftung NRW), 2010/12
• Noć night music for 8 instrumentalists (commissioned by the Kunststiftung Sachsen-Anhalt and the Impuls Festival for New Music Saxony-Anhalt), 2011
• SAN music for 5 instruments and electronics, 2015 (funded by the composition scholarship of the Berlin Senate's cultural administration, as well as by the Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology Zurich (ICST), and by the Francis et Mica Salabert Foundation)
• Druga Noć night music for 11 instrumentalists, 2015

Web links

• Literature by and about Sascha Dragićević in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of Sascha Dragićević
• Sascha Janko Dragićević at Edition Gravis
• Sascha Janko Dragićević at Edition Dohr
• Sascha Janko Dragićević at Soundspaces