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Ivan Vukosavljević is a Serbian composer based in The Hague, Netherlands. His music is an encounter between seemingly distant sound worlds: amplified guitars and electronics, historical keyboard instruments, acoustic ensembles, and musical traditions beyond the Western canon, exploring the ways in which different performance practices can coexist within a single framework.

Born in Serbia in 1986, Vukosavljević studied composition at the University of Arts in Belgrade, before continuing his studies at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. In recent years, his work has included The Burning (2019), created with Ensemble Klang for deconstructed electric guitars and electronics; Slow Roads (2023), a cycle for quarter-comma meantone organ performed by Tineke Steenbrink and other organists on historic Dutch instruments; a mind in the heart (2026), a piano cycle for Portuguese pianist Joana Gama inspired by the melodic practice of Serbian Orthodox chant; and Dead in Love (2026), a large-scale work for Indian classical instruments, Baroque keyboards, strings, and electronics created with Het Muziek. Together, these projects reflect an ongoing interest in tuning systems, historical instruments, and the meeting of different musical traditions.

In the Netherlands, his work has appeared in contexts ranging from major festivals and concert halls—such as Rewire, Le Guess Who?, Gaudeamus Muziekweek, Minimal Music Festival, Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, TivoliVredenburg, and Amare—to smaller venues and local communities across the country.

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