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Maja Osojnik (* 1976 in Kranj, Yugoslavia) is a Yugoslavian-Slovenian-Austrian singer, flautist and composer.

Life

Osojnik grew up in Slovenia and has lived in Vienna since the mid-1990s. From 1995 to 2003, she studied recorder at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. In addition to concert and master training for recorder, she studied singing from 2002 to 2003. From 2005 to 2007 she studied jazz singing with Ines Reiger at the Konservatorium Wien Privatuniversität.

In 2003, she was a founding member of the Low Frequency Orchestra, an ensemble for contemporary improvised and composed music, which is also dedicated to experiments such as the setting of a cycle of paintings by Robert Lettner. She also leads the Maja Osojnik Quartet and the Maja Osojnik Band.

She opened the 2015 Saalfelden Jazz Festival with a commissioned composition; in 2016 she presented her first solo program Let Them Grow at the Moers Festival. In the duo Rdeča Raketa, she improvises with Matija Schellander using electronic and analog sound sources, field recordings, beats, spoken word and, at the Donaueschinger Musiktage 2019, also with the video art of Billy Roisz. Other projects with Osojnik’s participation and different musical orientations include the bands and ensembles Broken.Heart.Collector, Plenum, FruFru, Subshrubs, the Ensemble Mikado – including joint projects with the Strottern. She created the film music together with Matija Schellander for the 2015 Austrian film drama Einer von uns by Stephan Richter.

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