Milica Djordjevic
Milica Djordjevic, is a composer of contemporary classical music. She lives in Berlin.Life and Works
Djordjevic grew up in the Serbian capital, Belgrade. As a young child she hoped to become a concert pianist or a painter. Her mother was a nurse and her father a cameraman, neither having the money for expensive piano tuition. Djordjevic made extensive use of the music school across the street.
Djordjevic finished her postgraduate studies at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg, where she studied with Ivan Fedele. She completed further studies at IRCAM and at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin, where she studied with Hanspeter Kyburz.
Djordjevic claims the first mature works in her oeuvre are The Firefly in a Jar, for chamber orchestra, or MUK, for baritone, violin and prepared piano. MUK asks the baritone to use singing techniques used in traditional Serbian music.
In 2015, she won the Belmont Prize and an endowment from the Forberg-Schneider Foundation. In 2016, she won the Ernst von Siemens Composer's Prize.
