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Jan 30, 1975 Gevgelija, Southeastern Statistical Region, North Macedonia 49 years old
Serbian composer
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About Alen Ilijic
- Alen Ilijic (Serbian Cyrillic: ???? ??????), (born 30 January 1975 in Gevgelija, SFR Yugoslavia), is a new media avant-garde composer and polymedia artist.
- He studied film music with Professor Amit Sen at City of Westminster College in London, and composition, orchestration, electronic music and sound engineering at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, with one of the most well-known composers, music theorists and modern music scholars in Eastern Europe, Dr.
- Srdan Hofman. During his studies in London as a singer-songwriter and guitarist, Alen Ilijic formed the band Zealot, in 1993.
- At the time, his musical expression was in the form of experimental rock, noise and Byzantine music.
- Zealot performed at Rock Garden, Hope and Anchor, Islington, Red Eye, Mean Fiddler, etc.
- With its innovative sound, Zealot had a big impact on the British underground scene during the nineties.
- The band stopped performing in 1999, due to Alen's return to Yugoslavia, Serbia.
- From this point onward Alen Ilijic's interest was in avant-garde movement, under the influence of Béla Bartók, John Cage, Marcel Duchamp and Serbian polymedia artist and composer Vladan Radovanovic. His album I have no coordiNATION was released in May 2014, for the New York-based label 'Ninety and Nine Records'.
- The album contains eight compositions that were created between 1999 and 2013 in London and Belgrade.
- Besides three compositions that were performed live (Improvisation for piano, violin and amplifier, at Student Cultural Center Belgrade, 2010, My suspicious look at the Yugoslav Drama Theatre, Belgrade, 2008, and I have no coordiNATION, at Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra Hall, 2007), others were recorded and realized in Ilijic's home studio.
- My suspicious look is an aleatoric composition performed by Ilijic and Jean Geoffroy, produced by the Italian composer Michelangelo Lupone.
- I have no coordiNATION was performed by pianist Neda Hofman and recorded by Srdan Hofman.
- As a retrospective, the album displays the diversity of Ilijic's creative work. The Composition for piano, voice and body movement called Red Faces was premiered at the international music festival 'Stone upon Stone’ which was held in the Symphony Orchestra Hall, 17 April 2015, Niš, Serbia.
- The Red Faces is an homage to Gertrude Stein as a reminder of the terrible past, wars and Holocaust in order to emphasize the similarity to current wars crimes and sufferings.
- During the same year, Ilijic has performed this composition at the 'Noise Mobility Festival’, Munich, (Germany), on 23 May.
- Another part of the performance included the use of guitar, voice and electronics.
- Furthermore, in 2016, Ilijic has performed Red Faces in Tel Aviv, Israel at Hateiva, as part of the festival The Unbearable Lightness of Coherency, 30 January.
- On that occasion Ilijic collaborated with Dganit Elyakim, playing together her composition for piano and voice,'Failing Better'.
- During his visit to Israel, he also performed with one of the greatest Israeli vocal artists, Anat Pick, and with Nadav Masel bassist and improviser, at Zimmer, in Tel Aviv.
- His performance of the Red Faces was held at 'Interpenetration’, Club Wakuum, Graz, Austria, on 17 March 2016. In October 2016, Alen Ilijic went to United States.
- He has performed in the Bratton Recital Hall, at The University of New Hampshire, Paul Creative Arts College (PCAC), on 20 October, and at Portsmouth Music and Arts Center (PMAC), New Hampshire, on 21 October.
- On both occasions he performed composition Red Faces but also a part with the use of guitar, voice and electronics, called Zealot's time.
- Before these performances, Ilijic held lecture to students about his way of composing at The University of New Hampshire, Department of Music, on 18 October.
- This is the second time Ilijic held this kind of lecture, the first time was in Vienna, at Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, on 13 April 2016.
- The interview about Ilijic's visit to USA was published for The New Hampshire's 18th issue of the 2016-17 academic year.
- Also, Russ Grazier, Jr.
- (Co-Founder of PMAC, Portsmouth, Executive Director, saxophone, composition, music theory and ensembles) has interviewed Alen Ilijic, and it's available at the PMAC's podcast, on SoundCloud. In 2017 Ilijic's composition for piano and voice Ongevarfen/Disordered was premiered at Mandagsclubben, in Copenhagen, Denmark, on March, 27.
- Ongevarfen/Disordered is composition dedicated to all the victims of NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.
- Ilijic's intention of playing it was marking a commemoration of the bombing that began 18 years ago, on 24 March 1999. On May 18, 2017 Ilijic has performed at Echoraum, 1+1=15,3 ? Piano Soli festival in Vienna, Austria.
- During this occasion, he has performed the composition Red Faces by request of an Austrian composer-performer and festival director, Katharina Klement.
- The festival is supported by International Society for Contemporary Music, ISCM.
- On 5 August, Ilijic has performed at NO NOISE festival, Sonoscopia, in Porto, Portugal. In 2018, on February 25 and 26, Ilijic has performed at Zimmer, in Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Israel.
- On both occasions he performed compositions for piano and voice called A Broken piano and for guitar, voice and electronics.
- These compositions are dedicated to all the victims of a Nazi concentration and extermination camp called Semlin during World War II, located in Belgrade, at the time in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH).
- Also at Zimmer Ilijic held lecture about his way of composing. On July 1, Ilijic has performed at Kunsthaltestelle Streckhammerhaus, Frohnleiten, Austria.
- In the same gallery his painting The Eternal Chess was exhibited from 1 July until 31 July 2018.
- On 28 September, Alen Ilijic has performed at Mazkeka, in Jerusalem, Israel.
- Mazkeka venue is a non-profit center for the contemporary and interdisciplinary art. During 2019, Ilijic has performed in Athens, Greece, at Chimeres on April 6.
- The composition for piano and voice called Overtake was premiered at KSET, ZEZ festival in Zagreb, Croatia, on April 10.
- During this occasion Ilijic also had exhibition conceived with the paintings on paper which are, in the form of visual scores, deeply connected with music and his compositions.
- On May 4, Ilijic performed at aNOther festival, Vienna, Austria and had solo exhibition.
- Rob Haskins, (D.M.A., PhD Associate Professor Department of Music, College of Liberal Arts University of New Hampshire) has analyzed his music: ‘lijic’s music is guided by an unerring intuition, revealing unexpected connections among the wide variety of utterances that mark the extraordinary richness of the total musical world available today.
- But, like Arnold Schoenberg, Ilijic has forged from the materials around him a new and consistent world entirely his own.’
