Marko Nikodijevic
• Born in 1980 in Subotica, Serbia, Marko Nikodijevic studied composition in Belgrade and later in Stuttgart with Marco Stroppa, among others, and attended lectures in nonlinear mathematics and physics.
• His music uses geometric-fractal structures and electronics, but also draws inspiration from 20th/21st-century avant-garde techniques such as spectral music and computer-generated sound transformation.
• Researches Serbian and Balkan folklore.
• He has a close relationship with the music of Claude Vivier, to whom he dedicated the opera Vivier. Ein Nachtprotokoll.
• often chooses complex, enigmatic work titles such as da ispravitsja / prayer room with night watch
• joint projects with the performance artist Marina Abramovic 7 Deaths of Maria Callas and Balkan Erotic Epic
• works for smaller ensembles dominate his catalogue
• conductors such as Reinbert de Leeuw, Johannes Kalitzke, Peter Michael Hamel, Jonathan Stockhammer, Matthias Pintscher, Vladimir Jurowski and Teodor Currentzis have performed his works
• In 2018 he was one of the guest composers at the ManiFeste Festival (IRCAM Academy)
• Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation Munich, German Music Authors' Prize of GEMA, UNESCO Rostrum of Composers
• lives in Hamburg
Works by Marko Nikodijevic include:
da ispravitsja / gebetsraum mit nachtwache (2019) für Orchester
Quartetto d’archi n° 1. Tiefenrausch (2016) für Streichquartett
music box / selbstportrait mit ligeti und strawinsky (und messiaen ist auch dabei) (2006)
Balkan Erotic Epic (2025) für Ensemble
Works by Marko Nikodijevic are published by Boosey & Hawkes / Sikorski.
Looking ahead: Premiere and Spanish firat performance Balkan Erotic Epic by Marina Abramovic with Marko Nikodijevic as Composer and Luka Kozlovacki as Sound Designer (Electronic Music) at the Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona in the dance version (January 24) and German premiere of the installation at Ruhrtriennale Duisburg (September 3); UA I Didn't Know Where To Put All My Tears / Je ne savais que faire de mes larmes for women's choir, soloists and ensemble at the Opéra national de Nancy-Lorraine in co-production with the Opéra de Rennes (March 29, 2026)
"Electronics play a central role in my work and the composition processes." — Marko Nikodijevic
