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 (10.2016 – 01.2022) – Composition: Media composition and applied music (Diploma degree program – second stage); magistra artium with honors, major professor: Iris ter Schiphorst

• University of Music and performing Arts Vienna (10.2016 – 06.2019) – Music Theory (Diploma degree program – second stage); magistra artium, major professor: Gesine Schröder

• University of Music and performing Arts Vienna (10.2014 – 06.2016) – Composition and Music Theory (Diploma degree program – first stage); major professor: Herbert Lauermann

• 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

• Healing Forest (2024), Ensemble Wiener Collage, WP: 18th December 2024, Arnold Schönberg Center Vienna

• INFANS II (2024), WP: 12th December 2024, E-Mozart, Pavle Krstic (piano) and Hristina Susak (voice and live-electronics), Mozarteum Salzburg

• DELIRIUM (2024), Schallfeld Ensemble, WP: 18th October, Text im Klang #6 by Impuls Festival Graz, Florentinensaal; 22nd October 2024, echoraum Vienna; 29th October 2024, Teatro Aveirense, Portugal

• 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

• Villa-Serpentara-Stipendium 2025 by Akademie der Künste Berlin

• Austrian State Scholarship for Composers 2024 (Staatsstipendium Komposition 2024, by Österreichisches Bundesministerium für Kunst, Kultur, öffentlichen Dienst und Sport)

• 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 etc.

• Participation in a lecture by Gesine Schröder at the Shanghai Conservatory (presentation of my composition Affectus III), December 2, 2022 (online)

• Panelist in a “Musiktheoretisches Streitgespräch” as part of the XV. Mitteldeutscher Tagung für Musiktheorie und Hörerziehung, HMT Leipzig, May 13, 2022

Programa de jóvenes compositores Valencia with Elena Mendoza and Orchestre de Valencia, February 20-25, 2022

• 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, Sauen, 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 «Konzept versus Realisierung von Limes – Limits of Perception», in: ZAeB, Zeitschrift für ästhetische Bildung, Dezember 2024, read the text

• Article «Mathematische Proportionen und deren Einfluss auf die Musik in Sofia Gubajdulinas Offertorium», in: Schriften online: Musikwissenschaft, Band 2. (P. 365-374), Hochschule für Musik und Theater “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” Leipzig, link

• Article «Kontrapunkt in Sofia Gubaidulinas Offertorium. Eine Analyse aus ausgetauschtem Blickwinkel», in: Kontrapunkt – ewiggestrig oder unerlässlich? Kontinuitäten und Wandlungen einer historischen Disziplin. 18. Jahreskongress der Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie Bremen 2018, Gesellschaft fur Musiktheorie (GMTH), Publication 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