Lübeck University of Music appoints composer Milica Djordjević
Eisler alumna and renowned composer Milica Djordjević recently took up a professorship in composition at the Lübeck University of Music and took over the international composition class. Milica Djordjević, born in Belgrade in 1984, began her composition studies in Belgrade, then went to Strasbourg and IRCAM in Paris before completing her postgraduate studies at the Hanns Eisler School of Music under Prof. Hanspeter Kyburz from 2011 to 2013.
She has worked with leading performers and ensembles of our time, including the Berlin Philharmonic, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir, the WDR and SWR, the Arditti Quartet, Ensemble Musikfabrik, ensemble modern, Ensemble Recherche, J.A.C.K. Quartet, as well as Gustavo Dudamel, Ilan Volkov, Marco Blaauw, Carl Rosman, Teodoro Anzellotti, Tamara Stefanovich, Enno Poppe, Bas Wiegers and Pierre-Laurent Aimard.
Milica Djordjević can look back on an extensive and diverse body of work, including compositions for solo instruments, chamber music in a wide variety of ensembles, vocal works and large orchestras. She has been awarded the Claudio Abbado Composer Prize of the Berlin Philharmonic (2020), the Composer Prize of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation (2016) and the Belmont Prize for Contemporary Music (2015), among others. Her recordings received the German Record Critics' Award in 2017 and 2024.
For many years, she has taught as a lecturer and mentor for composition, interpretation and performance practice of contemporary music at universities, conservatories and other educational institutions.