Svjetlana Bukvich is an American/Bosnian-Herzegovinian music composer, music producer, and media performance artist best known for her blending of classical music, media and electronic music. She has received numerous awards and her works have been featured at the

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, the

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, and by the

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(NYFA) with a Fellowship in Music/Sound in 2013. Bukvich performed her breakthrough piece ''Before and After the Tekke'' for electronics, keyboard, voice, and amplified violin at the ''Congress of the International Alliance for Women in Music'' in Beijing in 2008. That same year the piece was awarded First prize in the ''International Chamber Music Festival in Sarajevo''. She has presented her productions internationally, and in 2019 she held two concerts in Sarajevo in collaboration with the

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, the

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with the

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as part of ''Balcony Bar From Home - Ethel and Friends''. Her compositions and albums have received favorable reviews in the press. ''"Wherever we approach the music of this disc we will find that Miss Bukvich is a composer who is a true musical Epicurean, but whose sound of music is not only prolonged in the sensualist realm but also arouses in us a feeling of hope that is quite palpable"'' - Raul da Gama, World Music Report. ''"Bukvich is one of the notable musicians who have embraced the energetic complexity of prog-rock via contemporary composition. Her trademarks are sonority, color, texture, and a feeling for the metaphysical, and her collaboration with Carolyn Dorfman has earned raves"'' - The Brooklyn Rail. * Writing Bukvich contributed one chapter, ''Women in Audio: Trends in New York Through the Perspective of a Civil War Survivor'', to the book ''Gender in Music Production,'' released in 2020 and is a contributor in ''Modern Diplomacy'', reviewing music.

Discography

* 2014 - EVOLUTION * 2015 - Big Round Sound, VOL I * 2015 - THE NYFA COLLECTION, VOL II * 2020 - EXTENSION

Education

Svjetlana holds a B.A. in musical composition, a B.A. in musicology from Sarajevo University's Academy of Music and an M.F.A. in integrated electronic arts from

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in New York. She taught music technology at

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, and is assistant professor at

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. She is also faculty at the Microtonal University (MU) and is on the board of directors at the American Festival of Microtonal Music (AFMM).

References

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