Ivan Vukosavljević is a Serbian composer based in The Hague, Netherlands. His music brings together 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.

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Born in Serbia in 1986, Vukosavljević studied composition at the University of Arts in Belgrade, before continuing his studies at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. In recent years, his notable work includes: 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 (2025), 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. These works reflect an artistic approach that looks beyond existing musical infrastructures, seeking a broader vision of the contemporary composer—one that brings together the diversity of today’s cultural landscape through a practice shaped by the knowledge, traditions, and sensibilities of musical worlds that rarely, if ever, cross paths.

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In the Netherlands, his work has appeared in various 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. His music has also been performed and commissioned across Europe, as well as in South Korea, the United States, and South Africa.