Education

• Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden (10.2022 – 06.2024) – postgraduate studies “Meisterklasse Komposition”, major professor: Prof. Mark Andre

• University of Music and performing Arts Vienna (10.2014 – 01.2022) – Composition: Media composition and applied music diploma studies, Magistra Artium with honors, major professor: Iris ter Schiphorst

• University of Music and performing Arts Vienna (10.2014 – 06.2019) – Music theory diploma studies, Magistra Artium, major professor: Gesine Schröder

• University of Music and performing Arts Vienna (10. 2013 – 6. 2014) – Preparatory course Composition and Music Theory, Conducting, Tonmeister Education, major professor: Herbert Lauermann

Teaching Experience

• From October 2023: Lecturer in Music Theory at the University of Arts Berlin

• Held a composition masterclass as a member of faculty for students at the 34th Takefu International Music Festival, 3rd-10th September 2023

• October 2021 – July 2023: Lecturer at Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig

List of work-performances

• NANO II (2024), La Biennale di Venezia, residency at Biennale College Musica, WP: 3rd October 2024, Quatuor Béla, Teatro Piccolo Arsenale

• Music for CFCL Runway Show (2024), Paris Fashion Week, 26th February 2024, Palais de Tokyo

• Winds of Fuji (2023) und AFFECTUS I (2022), 34th Takefu International Music Festival, 3rd–10th September 2023, Echizen City, Japan

• SACRIFICIUM (2023), for symphony orchestra and solo-gusle, world premiere: 23rd Jun 2023, Duisburger Philharmoniker, Ana Percevic and Konstantia Gourzi, Transcultural Composition Prize

• ANIMA II (2022/23), for 2 voices und 6 instruments, world premiere: 31st May 2023, PHACE Ensemble and Vokalsolisten Suttgart, Konzerthaus Vienna

• AFFECTUS IV (2023), world premiere: 17th April 2023, Arditti Quartet, Hochschule für Musik Dresden

• ANIMA (2018/19), Austrian premiere: 28th March 2023, PHACE Ensemble, Konzerthaus Vienna

• Winds of Fuji (2023), for shakuhachi and recorder, world premiere: 25th March 2023, Tosiya Suzuki and Tadashi Tajima, Yodobashi Church Tokyo

• SKRIK II (2023), for symphony orchestra, world premiere: 10th March 2023, MDR Radio Symphony Orchestra, MDR Leipzig

• MANTRA (2022), for noh voice and viola world premiere: 21st December 2022, Ryoko Aoki and Yuko Hara, Kioi Hall, Tokyo

• PASSIO (2022), for symphony orchestra, world premiere: 6th November 2022, Concert hall of HfM Dresden; 10th November 2022, Semperoper Dresden, HSO Orchestra of HfM.

• AFFECTUS III (2022), world premiere: 19th October 2022, Ensemble Tempus Konnex Leipzig and Salome Kammer, Halle Steintor-Varieté

• ENTROPIA (2022), for mixed ensemble and electronic, world premiere: 5th September 2022, Teatr KTO, Krakow; 2nd Performance: 7th September 2022 within the Warsaw Autumn Festival, Spółdzielnia Muzyczna contemporary ensemble, project supported by Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung

• AFFECTUS I (2022), for violin and clarinet, world premiere: 27th May 2022, International Composition Course, Barcelona Modern Ensemble, with Mark Andre and Benet Casablancas, Barcelona

• EXISTO (2021/22), for mixed ensemble, world premiere: 8th March 2022 Radiokulturhaus Vienna; 2nd performance: 19th March 2022 Aspekte Festival Salzburg; performed by PHACE Ensemble, commission for the winners of the Call for Scores from aspekteFESTIVAL, PHACE Ensemble and Ö1 Vienna

• שבעה ימים (Seven Days) (2021) for big symphony orchestra, world premiere: August 20, 2021; will be performed by Tonkünstler Orchestra, masterclass with Toshio Hosokawa and concert within the Grafenegg Festival, Grafenegg, Austria

• PRISMA (2020), String Quartet, world premiere: November 3, 2020; performed by Arditti Quartet, concert within the festival Wien Modern, University of Music and performing Arts Vienna

• INFANS (2020), for mixed Ensemble, world premiere: March 13, 2020; performed by Ensemble Intercontemporain, concert „Cabinet de curiosités“, Philharmonie de Paris

• Skrik II (2017/19), for mixed Ensemble, world premiere: April 4, 2019; performed by Sepia-Ensemble, festival ”Poznańska Wiosna Muzyczna”, Poznan, Poland

• ANIMA (2018/19), for Trombone, Cello, E-Guitar, Percussion, Piano and Sampler (amplified), composition-contract of ECLAT-Festival, world premiere: February 10, 2019; performed by ascolta-ensemble, ECLAT-Festival, Theaterhaus Stuttgart

• Music for theater piece Watschenmann (Director: Berenice Hebenstreit), for Violin, Voice and live-electronics (1 player), world premiere: January 31, 2019; performed by Hristina Susak, Volkstheater Vienna, further performances: February – June 2019

• Performance-piece TREE (2018), for Violin, live-electronics and Installation, world premiere: May 18, 2018; performed by Hristina Susak, University of Music and performing Arts Vienna

• SKRIK (2017/18) for big Symphony Orchestra, world premiere: April 7, 2018; project ANHÖRUNG Bruckner Orchester Linz, conductor: Markus Poschner, Bruckneruni Linz

• Skrik I (2017), for mixed Ensemble, world premiere: October 19, 2017; performed by Sepia-Ensemble, concert within the 200th anniversary of University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna „200 Jahre MDW“, University of Music and performing Arts Vienna

• Musical theatre piece 300000km/s (2017), for 2 Cellos (amplified), Sampler and 2 Actors, Director: Thyl Hanscho; world premiere: June 22, 2017; concert within the project ”Die Optimierung des Menschen”, Off-Theater Vienna

• Transformations for 4 Bassoons and Contrabassoon (2016), world premiere: April 29, 2017; concert within the project ”HolzBlechSchlag”, University of Music and performing Arts Vienna

• 50 (2016), for Bigband-Orchestra, world premiere: December 12, 2016; Austrian Jazzcomposers Orchestra (alias Nouvelle Cuisine), BigBandEvent VI, Porgy&Bess Vienna

• String Quartett No.1 (2015), world premiere: June 20, 2016, University of Music and performing Arts Vienna

• Tango (2015), for Violin and Accordeon, Premiere: May 24, 2016; Violin: Anna Gutowska, Accordeon: Grzegorz Stopa, Polish Institute Vienna

• Music for short movie within the project Musik zum Anfassen, Premiere: December 15, 2015; University of Music and performing Arts Vienna

• Prelude and Fugue (2012), for String Orchestra, world premiere: April 7, 2013; Camerata Zürich, finalist concert of International young Composers Competition, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland

Prizes, scholarships

• Austrian State Scholarship for Composers 2024

• Scholarship of Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes 2023/24

• Finalist of the Claussen-Simon Composition Prize 2023

• Prize of the City of Vienna for 2021 for the section music

• Winner of the CALL FOR SCORES and for best young composers from PHACE Ensemble, aspekteFESTIVAL and Ö1 Vienna, commission to write a new chamber piece to be performed in March 2022

• 2nd Prize at 3rd International Composers Competition “New Music Generation 2021”, University of Arts, Kazakhstan

• Arbeitsstipendium (working scholarship) for the second half of 2021 from Austrian Ministry

• Song ”LIE”: 3rd place on «Univision Popmusic Awards», WUK Vienna, June 1, 2016

• Orchestral piece ”SKRIK” selected to represent University of Music and performing Arts Vienna on the project ANHÖRUNG, world premiere: April 7, 2018 Bruckner Orchester Linz, conductor: Markus Poschner, Bruckneruni Linz

• Performance Scholarship (Leistungsstipendium) 2015/16 of University of Music and performing Arts Vienna for the recognition of outstanding study achievements

• Piece „Prelude and Fugue“ for string orchestra in finale of International Young Composers Competition of Camerata Zürich, finalist concert, Kunsthaus Zürich, April 7, 2013

List of conceptual Performances

• Audio-Video-Performance ”NANO”, piano by Natasa Veljkovic, performance by Natasa Veljkovic and Hristina Susak, live streaming concert „Adventskonzerte by Natasa Veljkovic“, Altes Rathaus Vienna, December 24, 2020

• Video-Performance ”Death Mask”, within the Workshop with performance-artist Marina Abramovic, recorded by BBC, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade (MSUB/MOCAB), September 26, 2019

• Performance ”Les Images”, performed by Dusan Sretovic and Hristina Susak (+ live-electronics and Video), University of Music and performing Arts Vienna, June 20, 2019

• Performance ”0 x Infinity”, performed by Abdullah Akat (voice) and Hristina Susak (+ live-electronics), concert within the project ”Confusing Inspiration 2”, University of Music and performing Arts Vienna, October 17, 2017

• Performance ”Who are You?”, performed by Hristina Susak (+ live-electronics and Installation), Another Festival, WUK Vienna, March 11, 2017

• Performance ”Limits of Perception”, performed by Hristina Susak (+ Installation and Amplification), University of Music and performing Arts Vienna, December 13, 2016

Active Participation at Workshops and Masterclasses

• Masterclass with Marina Abramovic, active participation, Museum of contemporary Art Belgrade (MSUB/MOCAB) Belgrade, September 24-26, 2019 (certificate from MAI institute)

• Workshop with Hans Zimmer, active participation, Vienna International Film Music Symposium FIMU 2018, University of music and performing arts Vienna, October 21, 2018

• Composers Workshop of University of the Arts Berlin, active participation, July 2-6, 2018

• Workshop with Georg Friedrich Haas, University of Music and performing Arts, June 8, 2016

• Ethnomusicological field research in Istanbul within the Project «Confusing Inspiration 2» (of University of Music and performing Arts Vienna), Istanbul, October – November 2016

Active Participation and Presentations (Music Theory) at Conferences

• Komponistinnen und Interpretinnen im französisch- und deutschsprachigen Raum: analytische, historische und soziologische Zugänge, Vienna, June 2019 (Presentation: «Musiktheoretische Ausgangspunkte meiner Performances. Entwurf eines Konzepts zur künstlerischen Forschung»);

• XVIII annual congress of the Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie (GMTH), Bremen, Germany, October 2018 (Presentation: «Kontrapunkt in Sofia Gubaidulinas Offertorium. Eine Analyse aus ausgetauschtem Blickwinkel»);

• Austrian Society of Music, free Presentation: «Ein neuer Blick auf Edgards Varéses Ionisation», June 2018;

• recherche du CIERA, Sorbonne-Université et de la Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig 2017–2019, Sorbonne-Université, Paris, May 2018 (Presentation: «Mathematical proportions and its impact on music in Sofia Gubaidulina’s Offertorium»);

• International PhD Musicological Conference, Musicology (in)action: Past Musics, Present Practices, Future Prospects, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, February 2018 (Presentation: «Bewildering Suggestions: Multiple Ways to analyze Edgar Varèse’s Ionisation»);

• XVII annual congress of the Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie (GMTH), Graz, Austria November 2017 (Presentation: «Komplexes aus Einfachem: Justin Biebers «Love Yourself» (Spektral und Microtiminganalyse)»);

• Musica movet: affectus, ludus, corpus, Belgrade, October 2017 (Presentation: «The power of instrumental corpora. Reflections on occasion of Edgar Varèse’s Ionisation»);

• Third Congress of the Society for Theory of Music (OTM), Moscow state Conservatory P.I Tschaikovsky, Russland, September 2017 (Presentation: «Shostakovich’s orchestration. His symphonies 1-5 as a mirror of a cataclysmic Land»);

• La tradizione violinistica Italiana 1650–1850, Faenza, Italien, April 2017 (Presentation: «The same shake will not serve with equal propriety. Varieties of ornamentation and their theoretical conditions»)

Publications

• Article «Musiktheoretische Ausgangspunkte meiner Performances. Entwurf eines Konzepts zur künstlerischen Forschung», in: Schriften online: Musikwissenschaft, Hochschule für Musik und Theater “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” Leipzig (in preparation)

• Article «Mathematische Proportionen und deren Einfluss auf die Musik in Sofia Gubajdulinas Offertorium», in: Schriften online: Musikwissenschaft, Hochschule für Musik und Theater “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” Leipzig (in preparation)

• Piece ”Transformations for 4 Bassoons and Contrabassoon” (2016) published by Firma Doblinger within the project „HolzBlechSchlag“, Vienna, Fall 2019

• Song ”LIE” (2017) used in movie „Gipsy Queen“ directed by Hüseyin Tabak, 2019

• Article: «The power of instrumental corpora. Reflections on occasion of Edgar Varèse’s Ionisation», in: Musica movet book, publisher: University of Arts Belgrade (forthcoming)

• Lemmata «Afghanistan» and «Yehudi Menuhin», in: Lexikon des Orchesters, edited by Frank Heidlberger, Gesine Schröder and Christoph Wünsch, Laaber: Laaber-Verlag, September 2019

• Article: «Kontrapunkt in Sofia Gubaidulinas Offertorium. Eine Analyse aus ausgetauschtem Blickwinkel», in: GMTH Proceedings, publisher: Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie (forthcoming)