Ivan Božičević

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Ivan Božičević (born 1961) is a Croatian composer, pianist, organist and jazz musician.

[edit] Biography

Božičević was born in Belgrade. After initial piano studies, joins the composition class of A. Obradović at the Belgrade Faculty of Music. Graduates in 1984, earns a Master's degree in 1989. Until 2001 occupies a teaching post for Harmony, Counterpoint and Analysis there and at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad. Since December 2001 lives in Split, Croatia, as a free-lance artist.

From 1984 to 1988 studies organ at the Hochschule für Musik in Frankfurt with the renowned professor Edgar Krapp. Acquires a broad repertoire, with a special emphasis on baroque and modern music. Specializes early organ music in Salamanca (with Guy Bovet and Montserrat Torrent). Gives many successful concerts in Croatia, Hungary, Switzerland, Spain, Serbia and USA.

His creative output encompasses three symphonies, orchestral, chamber, choir and soloistic works, as well as electronic compositions and jazz music. He received numerous composition awards, and his works are frequently played on radio, TV and concerts.

After moving to Split, he widens his music activity to include organ and piano playing, composing, arranging and theatre music. His collaborations include top Croatian jazz and pop musicians (Dražen Bogdanović, Tedi Spalato) as well as dalmatian «klapa» ensembles («Cambi»). Božičević also runs a jazz-band called SplitMinders, whose repertoire is based on originals and arrangements of dalmatian folk songs.

[edit] Selection of Works

Symphony orchestra:

• Music for big orchestra (1983)
• Essercizi sinfonici (1986)
• Five haiku after Bashô (1989)

Chamber ensembles:

• Sonata (1981) for violin and piano
• Three ‘female’ songs (1981) for soprano voice and piano
• Pathways (1982) for string quartet
• Rivers, like in a dream (1983) for bass-clarinet and organ
• Play E.S. (1983) for two female voices, bass-clarinet, piano, organ, synthesizer and percussion
• Essercizi da camera (1985) for 13 string players
• Chamber music (1986) for soprano voice, violoncello and piano (poetry of J.Joyce, in English)
• Mandorle dolce, mandorle amare (1999) for mandolin orchestra
• Marittimo (2005) for oboe (or soprano saxophone), piano and strings
• Airborne (2007) for bas clarinet and string quartet (or string orchestra)

Solo keyboard instruments:

• Five haiku after Bashô (1987) for organ
• Sotto voce (1994) for piano
• Behind the cloud (1996) for organ

Computer-controlled electronics:

• Senecio / Astrolabe (1992)
• Sanza (1992)
• Isle of voices (1992), cycle of 6 pieces
• Moon's turning point (1993)
• Intelligence of the heart (1994)

Choral music:

• Good Shepherd (2000), for female choir and piano
• Sundial (2003), for female choir, percussion and piano
• Veronica (2004), for female choir and piano

Theoretical:

• Technique and structure of fugue in organ works of D.Buxtehude (1995), dissertation paper
• Introduction to Renaissance and Baroque ornamentation (1998)

[edit] External links

• Home Page of Ivan Božičević
• Early music network
• Hrvatsko društvo skladatelja - Ivan Božičević (in Croatian)
• Diskografija.com - Ivan Božičević