“New Sonatas” – composer Ivan Brkljačić

Four New compositions in sonata form by Belgrade composer Ivan Brkljačić will be performed by Dušan Panajotović, Đorđe Milošević, Bojana Dimković, Sanja Vukadinović Irina Pejoska, Mina Đekić, Rade Živanović and the author. Concert is supported by Sokoj and organized in cooperation with the Cultural Centre of Belgrade and Belgrade City Museum.

Ivan Brkljačić
U odsjaju Timoka from Knjaževac Sonata for violin and pirano (2021/23)
Dušan Panajotović, violin
Ivan Brkljačić, piano

New Wave Sonata for cello and piano (2021/24)
Đorđe Milošević, cello
Bojana Dimković, piano

Duo Sonatina for flute and harp (2024)
Sanja Vukadinović, flute
Irina Pejoska, harp

Blue Sonata for two violins (2021)
Mina Đekić, violin
Rade Živanović, violin

Biography:
Ivan Brkljačić (1977, Belgrade) graduated in 2001 from the Faculty of Music, Department of composition and orchestration, in the class of Professor Srđan Hofman. He obtained his Master Degree in composition at the same faculty in 2005, in the class of Professor Zoran Erić and in 2012 successfully defended hisdoctoral art project entitled Istar – Cycle of Nascent Music Caricatures for the Performing in a Theater Scenery, mentored by Prof. Srdjan Hofman.
Ivan Brkljačić’s compositions have been performed many times in Belgrade and other towns in Serbia and three such performances have stood out recently. The premiere of IT! – piano concerto at the Kolarac Hall, with Aleksandar Šandorov, Bojan Suđić and the Symphony Orchestra of RTS, the premiere of the instrumental theater Istar in the open space of Nebojša Tower at Kalemegdan, as well as the premiere of LOVE! – sahophone concerto, with Milan Savić on alto saxophone and Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, with maestro Daniel Raiskin. Also, his compositions were performed in Belgium, the Netherlands, Canada, Sweden, Brazil, the Czech Republic, Italy, Austria, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Poland, Germany, Croatia, F.Y.R. Macedonia, France, Romania, Hungary, Japan, Litvania, England, Finland, USA and Australia (in 2010 the composition Jinx, performed by Australian Modern Music Ensemble and conducted by Daryl Pratt opened The New Music Days in Sydney). He wrote commissioned compositions for Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, choir Collegium Musicum, European project MUSMA, festivals Bemus and Belef, Slovenian ensembles Slavko Osterc and 4Saxess, trio Pokret (Movement), trio Tembr, quartet Mokranjac, trio Singidunum, Construction Site New Music Ensemble, trio Donne di Belgrado, etc. He cooperated with international ensembles such as Ostravská Banda from the Czech Republic, Blindman from Belgium, L’Ensemble Portmanto from Canada, etc.
Ivan Brkljačić composed music for numerous theater plays, staged at Atelje 212, Belgrade Drama Theatre, Yugoslav Drama Theatre, The National Theatre, Bitef Theatre, etc., as well as the theaters in Zrenjanin, Vršac, Subotica, Banja Luka, Podgorica, Budapest and Erlangen in Germany. Brkljačić is the author of music for the feature film Redemption Street.
From the academic year 2005/06 he worked as a Teaching Assistant, from 2010/2011 as an Assistant Professor, from 2015/2016 as an Associate Professor, and since 2020/21 he has been the Full Time Professor at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, first at the Department for Music Theory, and then at the Department for Composition. He acted as the selector of the program for the nine editions of the International Review of Composers. He was the creator of the new concept of the Review which has been presented since 2007 under new slogans Retrospection, New miniatures, The echoes of space – homage to Ljubica Marić and Vasilije Mokranjac, Music and theatre, Splendour of the Voice, Musical Construction Site, Step into the unusual, Mokranjac Award Jubilee and Music Box.
He has been granted the following awards: Mokranjac Prize for the year 2005, for his composition When the Curtain Rises SEVEN Times, for symphony orchestra;
41st Sofest festival statuette (2012) for the best originally composed music, for the film Redemption Street; The annual award of the magazine Muzika klasika (Musica Classica) for 2012 in the category of Applied Music (for the film Redemption Street).