SKLJAROV, Helena

Helena Skljarov (Zagreb, January 1993) graduated musicology at Music Academy, University of Zagreb (2017), under the mentorship of Nikša Gligo with a thesis on the analysis of 20th-century music. In 2014. she begins the study of Composition at the same university in the class of professor Berislav Šipuš. In 2018. she won a scholarship from the Croatian Composers Society “Rudolf and Margita Matz”. In 2018. she received the Rector’s award for composition Pulsar which was premiered in Zagreb by students orchestra and conducted by maestro Quentin Hindley.

In July 2020 she graduated composition under the mentorship of Berislav Šipuš with her opera Nothing. Almost for vocals, instruments, and electronics, written on the texts of Daniil Kharms. In 2021 her string quartet Silence is selected for the 2021 ISCM World New Music Days in Shanghai and Nanjing. In 2022, she was selected to participate in the Novalis Festival where she won the award for best composition of a young composer. Her work currently includes more than 50 compositions for various solo instruments, chamber ensembles, one symphony, and two operas. In 2023 she premiered her symphony “Portrait Dore P.” for orchestra, video, and electronics, conducted by Maestro Pascal Rophé, commissioned by the HRT orchestra to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Dora Pejačević’s death. In 2025, the symphony was selected by the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) to be performed at the World New Music Days in Portugal.