Balkan Affairs

With works by

Hanan Hadžajlić, Jug Marković, Ana Pandevska, Nina Perović, Petra Strahovnik, Helena Skljarov

Against the backdrop of a drifting, populism- and war-threatened community in Europe, the Biennale Zagreb (2023) and the Neue Vocalsolisten invited six composers from the six states of the former Yugoslavia to artistically engage with the impacts of the Balkan Wars, which continue to significantly shape the societies of their home countries today.

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BALKAN AFFAIRS is primarily a compositional exploration of vocal music by six composers, most of whom work with electronic music. The intensive composition process was accompanied by several individual work residencies of the participating composers with the Neue Vocalsolisten in Stuttgart