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Ališer Sijarić (born July 8, 1969) is a Bosnian contemporary classical music, electroacoustic music and computer music composer.


Education

Ališer Sijarić studied Composition with
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at Sarajevo Music Academy and Musicology, Philosophy and Sociology at Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo. He continued his Composition studies with
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and attended Composition courses with Beat Furrer und Hanspeter Kyburz in
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. He is the son of notable professor and violinist Osman-Faruk Sijarić, former dean of
Sarajevo Music Academy The Sarajevo Music Academy or Music Academy , University of Sarajevo ( bs, Muzička Akademija Univerziteta u Sarajevu or MAS) is a Faculty of Music of University of Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina. History Sarajevo Music Academy was found ...
and grandson of well-known writer Ćamil Sijarić.


Cooperation and performances

He is member of the Composers group Gegenklang. Sijarić has been commissioned to write compositions by the Konzerthaus, Vienna Gesellschaft Wien, Konzerthaus Berlin,
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, Wiener
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, Kammaransemblen Stockholm, Forum Alpbach Austria, Ensemble Cantus Zagreb, Pre Art Zürich, Ensemble Zeitfluss, Manhattan String Quartet, among others. His music was performed at many international music festivals, such as Kopenhagen - Kulturhuaptstadt Europas,
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, Salzburger Festspiele,
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, Muskiprotokoll Graz, Culturscapes Basel, Chamber Music Festival Sarajevo and many others, in Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Denmark, Croatia, Italy, Republic of Macedonia, Germany, Poland, Romania, USA (Carnegie Hall), Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland, Ireland. He is founder of the Society of New Music Sarajevo – SONEMUS,
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and since year 2001, its artistic director. He is active member of INSAM Institute for Contemporary Artistic Music.


Music style

Ališer Sijarić is pioneer in the field of Contemporary Music Composition and Contemporary Music Analysis in Bosnia and Herzegovina. His approach to Music Composition, as primarily thinking process, could be described as "deconstructed thinking process", because his fundamental compositional technique is filtration of overall material. Using noise, which could be represented also through white color (which contains all tones/colors, but none of them can be solved singularly) Sijarić sets hidden layers of whole composition at the very beginning of compositional process and forms cultivated noise. It can be understood as presumed system of artificial sound spectrum organization and of apabsolute micro-sound (or partial) stability, which represents the opposite to the nature (or behavior) of noise. Composition of "composition background" or "hidden layers source", which for many composers represent a final product, for Sijarić represents a starting point of filtration process development. Influenced by composers such as Beat Furrer, Gérard Grisey, Morton Feldman and research in the field of
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, Semiology, Psychoacoustics and Electronic & Computer Music (using
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as Composition Assistant), he developed his own compositional style.


Academic career

Prof. mr. Ališer Sijarić is Professor of
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Sarajevo Music Academy The Sarajevo Music Academy or Music Academy , University of Sarajevo ( bs, Muzička Akademija Univerziteta u Sarajevu or MAS) is a Faculty of Music of University of Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina. History Sarajevo Music Academy was found ...
of the University of Sarajevo and he is also Head of Department for
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. As of June 2020 he is the new Dean of
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Significant compositions

*"Noise Prevails" for chamber ensemble", *"Dah" for solo flute, *"Snakes in Time" for orchestra, *"Drei Farben" for flute, cello and piano, *"Innerhalb aller sprachlichen Gestaltung..." for ensemble, *"Cross Bowing" for string quartet, *"Capriccio Meccanico" for violin and piano *"Deductio" for solo clarinet.Archived a
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References


Other sources

*Samson, Jim, "Music in the Balkans", Boston, 2013, BRILL. *Čavlović, Ivan, "Historija muzike u Bosni i Hercegovini", Sarajevo, 2011, Muzička akademija. {{DEFAULTSORT:Sijarec, Aliser 1969 births Living people Bosnia and Herzegovina composers 21st-century classical composers Contemporary classical composers University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna alumni Musicians from Sarajevo Academic staff of the University of Sarajevo