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Bogdanović was born in Yugoslavia in 1955. He completed his studies of composition and orchestration at the Geneva Conservatory with P. Wissmer and A. Ginastera and in guitar performance with Maria Livia São Marcos. Early in his career, he received the only First Prize at the Geneva Competition and gave a highly acclaimed debut recital in Carnegie Hall in 1977. He has taught at the Geneva Conservatory and the University of Southern California and is presently engaged by the San Francisco Conservatory. His theoretical work includes Polyrhythmic and Polymetric Studies, as well as a bilingual publication covering three-voice counterpoint and Renaissance improvisation for guitar and with a structural analysis of motivic metamorphoses in composition and improvisation (Berben Editions). He has also collaborated on multi-disciplinary projects involving music, psychology, philosophy and fine arts. As one would expect, this maverick presents himself here as a musical world-builder. He is at home in the most diverse ethnic milieus, which are perfectly matched by his musical knowledge. Dušan Bogdanović is a composer with an exuberant creativity and great power of originality. Gitarre & Laute, Germany, 1999 Profoundly original, the personality of Bogdanović dares to re- read the classics of the repertoire. It is simply that the palette of Bogdanović is immense: with colors, timbres, energies, nuances. Between the rustle of silk paper and the burst of machine gun, he knows how to do justice to the orchestral vocation of the guitar without taking away its intimate dimension of shared soliloquy. Tribune de Genève, Switzerland, 1984 |