Ana Sokolović » Biography

Belgrade, Serbia, 1968

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Ana Sokolović

Born in 1968 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. She studied composition with Dusan Radic at the University of Novi Sad and with Zoran Eric at the University of Belgrade before completing a Master’s degree at the Université de Montréal under José Evangelista. Her catalogue includes orchestral and piano works and several chamber music compositions. She has also written numerous scores for the theatre. Between 1995 and 1998, Ana Sokolović received three awards from the SOCAN Young Composers’ Competition. In 1999, she was awarded the First Prize at the CBC National Young Composers’ Competition. Sokolović has received commissions from the Ensemble contemporain de Montréal, the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec, the Brune dance company, the Quatuor Molinari, the Esprit Orchestra, the Orchestre baroque de Montréal, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, the Queen of Puddings Music Theatre Co., the Pentaèdre wind quintet and pianist Marc Couroux, and she has been the recipient of several grants from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and the Canada Council for the Arts. In 1996, she was the Quebec Delegate at the Unesco International Rostrum of Composers in Paris.

Since last summer, Ana Sokolović’s music is being celebrated in a hundred events and concerts throughout the country, in keeping with the SMCQ Homage Series 2011-12.

• See her Discography page on her site

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