ABOUT MARIJANA JANEVSKA

Marijana Janevska (1990, Skopje, Macedonia) is a composer, violinist and singer. She graduated violin performance in the class of Mihailo Kufojanakis and composition in the class of Darija Andovska at the Faculty of music in Skopje. Since 2018 she lives in Hannover, Germany, where she finished her Master studies in composition under the mentorship of Ming Tsao, Joachim Heintz and Gordon Williamson in 2020 at the Hochschule für Musik Theater und Medien Hannover. In 2024 she finished her Solo Klasse studies at the HMTMH with Aaron Cassidy, Joachim Heintz and Gordon Williamson. Her works have a lot to do with exploring various uses of text and voice to produce the musical material and the incorporation of physical movement into the musical gesture.

Her pieces have been performed on numerus concerts and festivals among which: Musik21 Festival, ZKM Next Generation, Klangbrücken Festival, TRAIECT Festival, Schallfront Reverie(s) Festival, Hell Wach Festival, Music BIENNALE, Tage für neue Musik in Zürich, TIEM Festival in Teheran, SONEMUS Festival, KotorART, International CSOUND Conference. She has collaborated with numerous ensembles: Quartet Mivos, PRE-ART, Ensemble Ascolta, Ensemble Adapter, Ensemble Mosaik, Comet Trio, Concerto Ispirato and so on.

She has won notable prizes and scholarships, among which: Oldenburg Kompositions Prise für Neue Musik 2024, First prize at the “9-th Pre-Art competition for young composers” in Zurich, “Klaus Huber Kompositionspreis” for electronic music in Hannover, Stipendien für Komponisten von Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, Nothilfe/Neustart Stipendium der Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung, DMR Stipendien from Deutscher Musikrat.

Marijana is also a performer of contemporary music, especially experimenting with voice, violin and electronics.