Branka Popović, DMA
Branka Popović (1977, Belgrade) graduated from both Musicology and Composition departments (composition studies with Zoran Erić) of the Belgrade Faculty of Music. She obtained her Master of Music Degree in Composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London (composition studies with Judith Bingham). She stayed for another year at the Guildhall as the Composition Fellow. She finished her doctorate studies in composition at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade (composition studies with Zoran Erić).
Her pieces were performed by many prominent performers and ensembles, to name just a few – Austrian Ensemble for New Music, ARTéfacts Ensemble (Greece), Ansamblul devotio Moderna.
(Romania), Stephen Gutman, Ellen Ugelvik, Ensemble Metamorphosis, Studio 6, St. George Strings, LP Duo and have been presented at events such as the Reims Scènes d’Europe 2016, World New Music Days 2013, International Spring Orchestra Festival (Valletta, 2016), Festivalul International Meridian 2014, 4th International Biennial of Contemporary Music in Koper 2014, International Review of Composers, City of London Festival, Sir Harrison Birtwistle Festival and International Rostrum of Composers.
Her first chamber opera Petersburg was premiered in June 2012. She won a prize for trio Dream (I. S. o. F) at the Summer Music Academy Budapest-Prague-Vienna 2002 and was awarded the Best Music in Film accolade for her work in The Breaking Point (directed by Igor M. Toholj) at the 56th Belgrade Short and Documentary Film Festival in 2009. Her piece Lines & circles… for recorder, trumpet, harp and accordion was elected among ten recommended works at the International Rostrum of Composers 2015 in Tallinn. She is one of selected composers participating in the project CEEC Composers Fieldtrip to China 2016/2017.
She has been appointed artistic director of International Review of Composers