La musique d’aujourd’hui : MusiquAvenir 1
Through the collaboration of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Goethe-Institut Montreal, Le Vivier and HELLERAU - Europäisches Zentrum Der Künste Dresden, composer Snežana Nešić has received a residency from mid-October to mid-December in Montreal. In counterpart, Montreal composer James O’Callaghan is welcomed for the same period of time in Dresden.
During this residency, Snežana Nešić is working on a new composition under the working title
Eternal Light and inspired by Goethe’s Faust and texts by inventor Nikola Tesla. She will also perform her work
Equilibrion IV with ensemble MusiquAvenir under the direction of Véronique Lacroix.
This residency program for new music between Quebec and Germany aims to establish lasting relationships and confrontation of points of view between Québec composers and their German counterparts, thereby contributing to their artistic growth and career development. The residency also aims to promote the dissemination of works by the selected composers in Québec and in Germany.
Snežana Nešić
Snežana Nešić is a Serbian composer and accordionist based in Germany. She began her musical studies at the P.I .Tschaikowsky Academy in Kiev and completed her post-graduate studies in 2004 at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover where she was mentored by Professor Johannes Schöllhorn (Composition) and Professor Elsbeth Moser (Accordion).Since 2007 she is a lecturer in musical composition and interpretation at this university.
In 2009 she won the Molinari Quartet’s international Composer Competition with her string quartet running thoughts and was the finalist at the international composer competition “Weimarer Frühjahrstage für Zeitgenössische Musik” for her Piano trio The Alchemy of Blue. In 2015 she was a finalist at the festival “Oper’Actuel- Works in Progress” by Chants libres in Montreal for her opera The Rain Passed Over. Her compositions have been performed at numerous festivals, including the “Salzburg Biennale“, the „Musik der Jahrhunderte Stuttgart“ and the „Klangwerkstatt Berlin“.
As accordion player she has won many international competitions and has received frequent invitations as a soloist with orchestras and ensembles including NDR Sinfonieorchester Hamburg, Staatstheater Hannover, Staatstheater Braunschweig and Das Neue Ensemble.
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