Bojan Vuletić (born June 11, 1971 in

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) is a composer, musician and producer. Vuletic’s music is marked by its unusual overcoming of genres and his interdisciplinary approach to theater, art installations, movies,

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and poetry. His compositional works reach from

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and

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, from contemporary to world and

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for a larger variety of groups and projects.

Career

Vuletić was born in

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(presently

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), and grew up mostly in

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. In his childhood and youth he took lessons and played violine and guitar. Before turning to studying at a music conservatory, Vuletic finished studies in astro physics at the

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich, LMU or LMU Munich; ) is a public university, public research university in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. Originally established as the University of Ingolstadt in 1472 by Duke ...

in Munich, Germany, with a diploma thesis about galaxy evolution. He then studied jazz-guitar at th
Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Arnhem
Netherlands, and afterwards completed his master studies („tweede phase studie“) at the Messiaen-Akademie, Netherlands, in composition with Paul Keijsers and Martin Fondse. He founded the musical groups B1 and Biyuya Ensemble and was musical director for a large variety of ensembles including the 3-year-project „Polyphonie“ and „Schlaf, Menschlein, Schlaf“ in collaboration with the Philharmonie Duisburg for the European Capital RUHR.2010. He collaborated with musicians such as

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, Nate Wooley, Matt Moran, Audrey Chen, Soo-Jung Kae,

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and Frank Schulte, as well as ensembles like

Die Toten Hosen Die Toten Hosen are a German punk rock band from Düsseldorf. The name is taken from the German slang idiom ''tote Hose'' (literally "dead trousers"), which means "nothing happening"; "boring". The band has had an important success through th ...

WDR Big Band WDR Big Band is the jazz big band of German public broadcaster Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) in Cologne, Germany. History Origins After World War II, the ''Kölner Rundfunk-Tanzorchester'' (''Cologne Radio Dance Orchestra'') was active from ...

and Trovači. Vuletić constantly works for visual artists like Aurelia Mihai and his long collaboration with and for Danica Dakic was to be heard in international exhibitions like the

documenta Documenta (often stylized documenta) is an Art exhibition, exhibition of contemporary art which takes place every five years in Kassel, Germany. Documenta was founded by artist, teacher and curator Arnold Bode in 1955 as part of the Bundesgarte ...

12,

Kunsthalle Düsseldorf Kunsthalle Düsseldorf is an exhibition hall for contemporary art in Düsseldorf. Building The present art centre was built in 1967 in Brutalist architecture by the architects Konrad Beckmann and Brockes. They used commercially available preca ...

Museum für Moderne Kunst The Museum für Moderne Kunst (''Museum of Modern Art''), or short MMK, in Frankfurt, was founded in 1981 and opened to the public 6 June 1991. The museum was designed by the Viennese architect Hans Hollein. It is part of Frankfurt's Museumsuf ...

Frankfurt and the biennales in

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and

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. Among the large variety of theatre productions for directors as

Volker Hesse Volker Hesse (born 30 December 1944) is a German Theatre producer. Between 2001 and 2006 he was the Theatrical Director at Berlin's Maxim Gorki Theater. More recently he has been working in Switzerland. Life Volker Hesse was born in the Hun ...

, Dedi Baron, Günther Beelitz, Nurkan Erpulat, Bettina Jahnke, and Thorsten Weckherlin his new compositions for the

Bertolt Brecht Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known as Bertolt Brecht and Bert Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a p ...

pieces

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and Die heilige Johanna der Schlachthöfe stand out, as they were officially commissioned by Barbara Brecht-Schall and the Brecht-Erben GmbH. As a composer and performer he worked on contemporary dance pieces of choreographers like Yun-Jun Kim and Marcus Grolle in South Korea, Canada, Japan and Germany. His radio installation for Naomi Schenck „Das Rätsel des Schafs“ won the German Audio Feature-Prize 2007 of the first television in Germany ( ARD) and his radio piece „Photo Sensitive, 1“ for the Serbian Radio

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was nominated for a number of awards. Vuletić worked as a guest lecturer among others at

Ruhr University Bochum The Ruhr University Bochum (, ) is a public research university located in the southern hills of the central Ruhr area, Bochum, Germany. It was founded in 1962 as the first new public university in Germany after World War II. Instruction began ...

(Master Szenische Forschung),

Bauhaus University, Weimar The Bauhaus-Universität Weimar is a university located in Weimar, Germany, and specializes in the artistic and technical fields. Established in 1860 as the Great Ducal Saxon Art School, it gained collegiate status on 3 June 1910. In 1919 the s ...

(Master Public Art and New Artistic Strategies) and Dong-ah Institute of Media and Arts Seoul. Bojan Vuletic received the music award 2012 of the City of Düsseldorf and was 2014-16 musical-artistic director of the Junges Schauspielhaus in Düsseldorf, Germany. In 2012 theatre director Christof Seeger-Zurmühlen and Bojan Vuletić have founded and directed the annual ASPHALT Festival Düsseldorf for theatre, music, art, literature and dance.

Selected discography (as musician, composer and/or producer)

* CD „Raging Low“ – B1, Ignoring Gravity Music (IGM 01-01, 2001) * CD „Grace.“ – Irene Latzko & Bojan Vuletić, Ignoring Gravity Music (IGM 02-02, 2002) * CD „Breakdown.yu“ – Biyuya Ensemble, Ignoring Gravity Music (IGM 03-03) * CD „Birdy“ – Biyuya Ensemble, Ignoring Gravity Music (IGM 04-05, 2004) * LP 12" „What 2 Do“ – Can 7, Peppermint Jam (PJMS 0074) * EP VINYL „The One Cultural Groove“ – Raw Artistic Soul, GoGoMusic (GOGO 010) * EP VINYL „Kana“ – Raw Artistic Soul, GoGoMusic (GOGO 012) * CD „Der Einzug in den Kontrabass“ – Sara Camatta (audio book) (Carl Löwe Edition, 2004) * CD „What About Love“ – Raw Artistic Soul, GoGoMusic (GOCD 002, 2005) * CD „True Khoisan“ – Laygwan Sharkie (2005) * CD „GO!“ – Various Artists (GOCD 001, 2005) * EP VINYL „What About Love EP“ – Raw Artistic Soul (GOGO 014, 2005) * CD-Single „Welcome To Deutschland“ – Trovaci, Ignoring Gravity Music (IGM 06-06, 2006) * CD „GO!!“ – Various Artists (GOCD 003, 2006) * LP 12" „Miami Theme & Fela Brasil“ – Raw Artistic Soul, GoGoMusic (GOGO 020, 2006) * CD „You Got Rhythm Too“ – Raw Artistic Soul, GoGoMusic (GOCD 004, 2007) * CD-Single „Paradies“ – Trovaci, Ignoring Gravity Music (IGM 07-08, 2007) * CD „Kuku Lele“ – Trovaci, Ignoring Gravity Music (IGM 07-07, 2007) * CD „Green Is For Push, Red Is For Pull“ – Soo-Jung Kae, Chang-U Choi & Bojan Vuletić, Ignoring Gravity Music (IGM 07-09, 2007) * CD-Single „Kako Tako“ – Trovaci, Ignoring Gravity Music (IGM 07-10) * EP „Moonshiners“ – Moonshiners (EGG Music Korea, 2008) * LP „Squidco“ – Paul Lytton & Nate Wooley (Broken Research Music, USA, 2008) * CD „Berlin“ – Tango del Sur West Wind Latina (WW2254) * DVD „Polyphonie at Philharmonie Duisburg 2008“ (Institut für Bildung und Kultur, 2008) * CD „A View Amazing“ – Vera Westera, Ignoring Gravity Music (IGM 08-11, 2008) * DVD „Polyphonie at Philharmonie Duisburg 2009“ – Benny Stolz (Institut für Bildung und Kultur, 2009) * CD „Creek above 33“ – Paul Lytton & Nate Wooley (PSI Records, USA, 2010) * CD „Malo Morgen“ – Trovaci, Electrique Mud Records (MUD007-2, 2010) * CD „Atemwende“ – Nate Wooley & MIVOS quartet, Ignoring Gravity Music (IGM 12-13, 2013)

Selected publications

* Hans Steingen, Bojan Vuletić: ''In aller Stille (Die Toten Hosen).'' Songbook, Bosworth 2009. * Flavia Nebauer, Bojan Vuletić: ''Musik mit älteren Migranten.'' published in „Kulturkompetenz 50+ – Praxiswissen für die Kulturarbeit mit Älteren“, published by Kim de Groote, Almuth Fricke, kopaed, 2010.

References

External links

official website of Bojan Vuletić
{{DEFAULTSORT:Vuletic, Bojan 1971 births Musicians from Belgrade Living people