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Mirela Ivičević (* 1980 in Split, Croatia) is a Croatian-Austrian composer.

Life

Mirela Ivičević was born in Split, Croatia in 1980.
She studied composition and music theory at the Music Academy Zagreb with Željko Brkanović, postgraduate studies in media composition and applied music with Klaus-Peter Sattler at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw) and composition with Beat Furrer at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.
She attended composition courses in Austria and the Netherlands with Georges Aperghis, Georg Friedrich Haas, Julia Wolfe, Luis Andriessen and others. Parallel to her art studies, she is completing a master’s degree in cultural management at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

From 2010 to 2017 Ivičević was co-curator and producer of the contemporary music festival DANI NOVE GLAZBE in Split and since 2014 co-curator of the festival UNSAFE & SOUNDS and co-founder of the ensemble The Black Page Orchestra in Vienna.

The main part of her work consists of conceptual and intermedial works that often deal with the role of sound in a socio-political context and in which she works with text and sonic waste products of contemporary societies by means of sampling-like processes.

Her list of works includes pieces for various line-ups, from live solo sets to symphony orchestra pieces as well as sound installations, music for film and theatre and three operas.0

Mirela Ivičević has received, among others, the State Scholarship of the Austrian Federal Chancellery, the Josip Štolcer Slavenski Prize for the music theatre PLANET 8, the Erste Bank Composition Prize and the Composers’ Prize of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation. In 2019, Mirela Ivičević was a guest of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Programme as a scholarship holder.

She lives and works in Vienna.

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