No Sufficient Reach – No Support. Marking the 34th International Review of Composers in Belgrade (September 27 – October 7, 2025)

Zorica Premate

doi:10.5937/10.5937/newso2566119P

Zorica Premate Radio Television of Serbia, Radio Belgrade 2

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5937/10.5937/newso2566119P

Keywords: International Review of Composers, most recent Serbian and international music, concert programs, authors and their works, non-compliance

Abstract

The survival of our only festival of contemporary music, the International Review of Composers, was jeopardized when Serbia’s Ministry of Culture decided not to support the 34th edition of this event, whether in terms of funding or organization. This called into question the already defined structure of the festival, marking its founder’s jubilee, the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Composers’ Association of Serbia. This paper is a presentation of the works performed at the festival, which were selected and included in its concert program by the festival’s selector Tatjana Milošević Mijanović.

Author Biography

Zorica Premate, Radio Television of Serbia, Radio Belgrade 2

is a musicologist and retired music editor at Radio Belgrade 2, where she authored various broadcasts in the domain of art music (2002–2017). She served as secretary of the New Sound International Journal of Music (1992– 2000) and managing secretary of the Dušan Skovran Belgrade String Orchestra (2000–2002). She also edited the CD series Late 20th-century Serbian Contemporary Music (1995) and published a collection of essays, Twelve Short Pieces (1997). She was the organiser and moderator of the panel series New Sound Spaces (2014–2019) and edited a volume of proceedings from these conferences (2019). Texts by Premate have been published in the New Sound, Muzički talas, and Treći program music periodicals, and her reviews and criticism in the culture section of the Politika daily. In 2017 she won the Pavle Stefanović award for music criticism and essay writing and the Musica Classica prize for music criticism.