Nikola Resanovic
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Nikola Resanovic (born 1955) is an American composer and professor of music. He is the winner of the 2003 Cleveland Arts Prize in Music and is one Ohio's best known composers.
In 1955, he was born in Derby, England. Resanovic moved to the United States where he has been a naturalized citizen since 1966. He graduated from the University of Akron, where he is currently a Professor of Music.
Resanovic has composed numerous symphonic and choral works, as well as some rather avant-garde electro-acoustic compositions. His choral works are heavily influenced by Serbian music; Resanovic, of Serbian descent himself, has extensively studied the sacred chants of the Serbian Orthodox Church and has composed several volumes of liturgicial music.
[edit] Selected works
- alt.music.ballistix for clarinet and digital audio tape
- Crosstalk for E-flat alto saxophone and digital audio tape
- South Side Fantasy for solo double bass and Compact Disc
- Dance In A White Bay for orchestra, commemorating the crew of the Edmund Fitzgerald
- Drones and Nanorhytms for woodwind quintet
