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Margareta Ferek-Petric (* 1982 in Zagreb, Croatia) is a Croatian-Austrian composer and event organiser.

Life

Margareta Ferek-Petric studied composition with Ivan Eröd, Chaya Czernowin and Klaus Peter Sattler at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.
She has held scholarships from various institutions and foundations, including the Home Suisse Foundation (2006-2009), the Thyll-Dürr Foundation (2009/2010), the Austrian Ministry of Culture (2012) and the Federal Chancellery (State Scholarship for Composers, 2016).
In 2010, she was invited by the Thyll-Dürr Foundation to a working residency at Casa Zia Lina on Elba. In 2011 she received a Theodor Körner Prize for her orchestral composition “Take 7”.

Since 2015 she has served on the board of the Austrian Society for Contemporary Music.
In 2016, Croatia was represented with Margaret’s Ferek-Petric music at the 63rd International Rostrum of Composers.

In 2017, she was awarded the Promotion Prize of the City of Vienna.

In 2018, Ferek-Petric was Artist in Residence at the Carinthian Music Summer, she received the Josip Stolcer Slavenski Prize and the Boris Papandopulo Prize – both for “All the World’s a Stage”, second place at the Prix Annelie de Man and an Audience Award in Amsterdam – both for the harpsichord piece “Ištaratu”.

Some of her recent works have been recorded on albums released by Decca Records and Croatia Records. Her music is regularly commissioned and performed by renowned ensembles and instrumentalists, played at various festivals and broadcast by radio stations around the world.

She lives and works in Vienna, Austria.

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