Snežana Nešić
Snežana Nešić (1972) studied composition, accordion and conducting at the Academy of Music P. I. Tchaikovsky in Kiev, at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien (HMTM) in Hannover, and at the Université de Montréal. Since October 2023 she has been a lecturer and head of the composition department at the Dr. Hoch’s Akademie in Frankfurt and was a lecturer in composition and new music at the HMTM Hannover from 2011 to 2023. Nešić has received composition commissions inter alia from the Gewandhaus zu Leipzig, North German Television (NDR), Philharmonie Luxembourg, Ensemble contemporain de Montréal, Quatuor Quasar, State Opera Hanover, and Chamber Opera Cologne. In addition, her compositions have also been premiered with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal and as part of the Salzburg Biennale, the Musik der Jahrhunderte Stuttgart, or the international theater festival BITEF. In her compositional work, she works frequently with various forms of opera and music theater and writes her own texts in this regard. Nešić won as a composer, among others, the Andrea Ceraso Rome Award, the OUM Composition Prize in 2023 and the 1st prizes at the Molinari Quartet’s International Competition. Also as an accordionist Nešić won many prizes at international competitions (among others the first prizes at the International Accordion Competition Klingenthal and International Accordion Prize of Castelfidardo) and played as a soloist with numerous ensembles and orchestras including, for example, the NDR Sinfonieorchester Hamburg and the Niedersächsisches Staatsorchester Hannover. Nešić is also the artistic director and conductor of the ensemble ur.werk. Currently, she is working on a cycle of audiovisual installations (The Artist is Not Present) and her Augmented Reality Opera (based on the libretto by Tina-Ève Provost) will soon be premiered at the Opera de Montréal.
