JOVANOVIC, Ljiljana

Ljiljana Jovanović (Belgrade, June 15, 1966) began studying piano and music theory at the age of seven. She studied composition in Montenegro and Croatia, graduating from the class of Željko Brkanović. She moved to Stuttgart in 1989 to pursue specialized studies in *musique concrète* at the State University of Music and the Performing Arts under Ulrich Süsse. She continued her advanced studies at the Rhineland University of Music in Cologne with Mauricio Kagel, while also studying musicology, Slavic philology, and philosophy at the University of Cologne. In 2002, she completed her undergraduate studies in interdisciplinary theater at Towson University in Maryland, where she held a scholarship from the College of Undergraduate Studies and Research in 2001 and 2002. Her compositions, projects in the fields of new music and sound design, and written works have been presented and broadcast in Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Germany, the Netherlands, England, Portugal, France, Canada, and the USA. She continues to develop her diverse artistic interests as a composer, sound designer, music director, and lecturer in Baltimore and Washington. She was a recipient of the "Meet the Composer" grant in 2004 and has been a member of the Baltimore Composers Forum since 2002. Her most famous works are: Two movements for 19 strings, Etudes for three players and wind septet, Sonata for piano, strings the Chromatic Impressions quartet and the Diptych wind quintet.