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EDUCATION

1990 D. M. A. in Music Composition, New England
Conservatory of Music, Boston

1991 M.A. in Music Composition, University of Arts,
Belgrade, Serbia, former Yugoslavia

1984 B.A. in Music Composition, University of Arts,
Belgrade, Serbia, former Yugoslavia
1978 Diploma in Music Theory “Josip Slavenski” Music
High School, Belgrade, Serbia, former Yugoslavia

EMPLOYMENT
1996 - Present Faculty - teaching graduate and
undergraduate courses at New England
Conservatory of Music
American Experimental Music Since 1960 • Music Since 1945 • Tonal Practice I, II, III • Solfege: Levels I - IV • Order and Chaos in Music Since 1945 • Pedagogy of Basic Skills • Coordinator of Fundamentals of Music Theory (2001-07) Coordinator of Keyboard Harmony program
Coordinator of Solfege program (Spring 2007)
1998- 2000 Lecturer - College of The Holy Cross, Worchester, MA • Fundamentals of Music • Music Theory I-III • Ear Training 1997-1998 Faculty - Extension Division School, New England • Taught various levels of solfege and music theory 1995 - 1996 Graduate Teaching Assistant - New England Conservatory of Music • Taught Fundamentals of Music Theory • Keyboard Harmony: I - III 1986 - 1992 Junior Faculty - full time, Music Conservatory, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia • Form Analysis (2 levels) • Solfege (2 levels) • Advanced Harmony (4 levels) 1984 - 1992 Music Director – part time, Radio Television Belgrade, drama program • Created music backgrounds for radio-dramas 1984 - 1986 Music Editor – full time, Radio Television Belgrade • Edited “The Encounters”, daily classical music show • Wrote concert reviews and essays on a variety of music subjects
AWARDS Vasilije Mokranjac, University of Belgrade award, for Ksha, Sequence No.9 for Choir
and Orchestra (1991)
Meritous Achievement Award at the International New Music Composers’ Competition
in Miami, for composition Rondo, Sequence for String Orchestra (1990) Vasilije Mokranjac, University of Belgrade award, for Rondo,
Sequence for String Orchestra (1987) October Award of City of Belgrade for young artists, for composition Rondo,
Sequence for String Orchestra (1986) Josip Slavenski, University of Belgrade, for Chiope, Sequence for Orchestra (1985) 7 Secretaries of SKOJ, national award for young composers, from the national
committee of composers from Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia, for Chiope (Swifts),
Sequence for Orchestra (1984)
PERFORMANCES Jordan Hall, Boston, MA Brooks Concert Hall, Worchester, MA Moscow Conservatory Big Concert Hall, Moscow, Russia Beijing Concert Hall, Beijing, China Athen Symphony Concert Hall, Athen, Greece Bulgaria Symphony Hall, Sophia, Bulgaria Kolarcev Concert Hall, Belgrade, Yugoslavia French Cultural Center, Belgrade Yugoslavia United States Cultural Center, Belgrade, Yugoslavia Harvard Film Archives, Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, Cambridge, MA Kennedy center, Millennium Stage, Washington, D.C. Les AMIS Concerts, Toronto
Guarnerius, Centar of the Arts, Belgrade Steinway Hall, New York, NY CUNI, Graduate Center, NY FESTIVALS Boston CyberArts Festival, Boston, 2007
SoundaXsis, Toronto, Canada, 2006
Romanischer Sommer, Cologne, Germany, 2005
Biennial of Contemporary Music, Zagreb, Croatia, 2007
16th International Festival of Santorini, Santorini, Italy Les Amis Concerts, Toronto, Canada Europhonia, World Festival of Chamber Music, Zagreb, Croatia Annual Review of Yugoslav Music, Opatija, Croatia BEMUS, Belgrade Music festivities, Music in Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia Budapest Festival of New Music, Budapest, Hungary PRESENTATIONS
2007 From Mathematica to Live Performance, Mathematics and Computation
in Music, MCM 2007, international conference, Berlin. 2006 Interdisciplinary Connections in Music Since 1945,
National College Music Society conference, San Antonio, Texas. 2006 From Xenakis to Wolfram, The Musical and Scientific Legacies of Iannis Xenakis,
Toronto. 2006 From Mathematica to Live Performance, International Conference, NKS,
Washington D.C. 2005 Generating Music with NKS, Wolfram Technology Conference 2005,
Champaign,IL 2004 Mapping cellular automata into sound, First International Conference of
New Kind of Science: Waltham, MA 2004 NKS and Music, NKS Summer School, Brown University, Providence, RI 2004 Teaching Music Theory Through Ear, College Music Society National Conference, San Francisco, CA 2001 Teaching Music Theory Through Ear, St. John Workshop,St. Mark’s School,
Southborough, MA 2001 Playing with Time: treatment of time in music of Seteve Reich and Frederic
Rzewski, NEC Spring Festival, New England Conservatory, Boston, MA. 1998 Application of Fractal Geometry of Nature to Music Composition, Holy Cross College, Worchester, MA, TELEVISION AND RADIO BROADCASTS
European Radio Broadcast Union Yugoslavian Radio Television Radio Television Ljubljana Radio Television Zagreb COMPOSITIONS RELEASED BY: Radio Belgrade Sachimay Records
Belgrade String Orchestra, Dusan Skovran