Marko Nikodijevic
• Born in 1980 in Subotica, Serbia, Marko Nikodijevic studied composition in Belgrade and later in Stuttgart with Marco Stroppa, among others, and attended lectures in nonlinear mathematics and physics.
• His music uses geometric-fractal structures and electronics, but also draws inspiration from 20th/21st-century avant-garde techniques such as spectral music and computer-generated sound transformation.
• Researches Serbian and Balkan folklore.
• He has a close relationship with the music of Claude Vivier, to whom he dedicated the opera Vivier. Ein Nachtprotokoll.
• often chooses complex, enigmatic work titles such as da ispravitsja / prayer room with night watch
• joint projects with the performance artist Marina Abramovic 7 Deaths of Maria Callas and Balkan Erotic Epic
• works for smaller ensembles dominate his catalogue
• conductors such as Reinbert de Leeuw, Johannes Kalitzke, Peter Michael Hamel, Jonathan Stockhammer, Matthias Pintscher, Vladimir Jurowski and Teodor Currentzis have performed his works
• In 2018 he was one of the guest composers at the ManiFeste Festival (IRCAM Academy)
• Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation Munich, German Music Authors' Prize of GEMA, UNESCO Rostrum of Composers
• lives in Hamburg
Works by Marko Nikodijevic include:
da ispravitsja / gebetsraum mit nachtwache (2019) für Orchester
Quartetto d’archi n° 1. Tiefenrausch (2016) für Streichquartett
music box / selbstportrait mit ligeti und strawinsky (und messiaen ist auch dabei) (2006)
Balkan Erotic Epic (2025) für Ensemble
Works by Marko Nikodijevic are published by Boosey & Hawkes / Sikorski.
Looking ahead: world premiere of Balkan Erotic Epic, the new installation by Marina Abramovic with Marko Nikodijevic as composer and Luka Kozlovacki as sound designer (electronic music) in Manchester (9 Oct), with subsequent performances in Barcelona, Salzburg, Vienna, Bochum (Ruhrtriennale), Berlin, New York and Hong Kong; world premiere hymne, mit hölderlinfragment with Elbenita Kajtazi (sopr) in Hamburg (26 Sept); world premiere of new work for cello and electronics in Florence (14 Dec); world premiere of new prologue to Britten's Curlew River, I Didn't Know Where To Put All My Tears / Je ne savais que faire de mes larmes, at the Opéra national de Nancy (29 Mar).
"Electronics play a central role in my work and the composition processes." — Marko Nikodijevic
