DCV 501 – David Mastikosa: Praskozorje

Born in Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992, David Mastikosa is a younger generation composer. Mastikosa attended the University of Banja Luka, Academy of Arts where he obtained a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree.

“Think of” by David Mastikosa was commissioned by Novi Sad Wind Quintet in 2016, and played many times at many different concerts across Serbia. Six years after the world premiere, this piece will get a new version in an upcoming concert at the Chamber Music Festival in Novi Sad in a version with a DJ.

DCV 502 David Mastikosa Drekavac Susanne Peters

We cordially invite you to the next series of contemporary music concerts under the title Concerts with premieres 2. In the second of them, you will have the opportunity to listen to exceptional compositions for the accordion.

The chamber opera “Cherry With a Gold Pit” is an emotionally charged drama that follows the fate of Timotej Medoš, trapped in a triangular room in Bosnia under mysterious circumstances. Timotej finds himself in a position of waiting, much like all of us in the waiting room of history, politics, and our expectations from life.

‘Mustra’ for saxophone quartet by David Mastikosa on the program of Stockholm Saxophone Quartet in Luxembourg.

Dušan V. Urošević, artistic director and conductor of SO NPRS: It is with great pleasure that we perform and nurture domestic musical creativity at the concert through the works of Tatjana Milošević Mijanović and David Mastikosa.

‘Praskozorje’ for soprano saxophone and string orchestra by David Mastikosa on the concert tour program ‘Sax and the City’ by Kurt Bertels and Ataneres Ensemble in Belgium, The Netherlands and Bosnia and Herzegovina. PROGRAM: Dubbelconcerto in C minor (BWV 1060R) – J.S. Bach arr. P. Swerts Klonos – P. Swerts Preludes – G. Gershwin arr.

‘Praskozorje’ for soprano saxophone and string orchestra by David Mastikosa on the concert tour program ‘Sax and the City’ by Kurt Bertels and Ataneres Ensemble in Belgium, The Netherlands and Bosnia and Herzegovina. PROGRAM: Dubbelconcerto in C minor (BWV 1060R) – J.S. Bach arr. P. Swerts Klonos – P. Swerts Preludes – G. Gershwin arr.

‘Praskozorje’ for soprano saxophone and string orchestra by David Mastikosa on the concert tour program ‘Sax and the City’ by Kurt Bertels and Ataneres Ensemble in Belgium, The Netherlands and Bosnia and Herzegovina. PROGRAM: Dubbelconcerto in C minor (BWV 1060R) – J.S. Bach arr. P. Swerts Klonos – P. Swerts Preludes – G. Gershwin arr.

‘Praskozorje’ for soprano saxophone and string orchestra by David Mastikosa on the concert tour program ‘Sax and the City’ by Kurt Bertels and Ataneres Ensemble in Belgium, The Netherlands and Bosnia and Herzegovina. PROGRAM Dubbelconcerto in C minor (BWV 1060R) – J.S. Bach arr. P. Swerts Klonos – P. Swerts Preludes – G. Gershwin arr.

World premiere of ‘Ancient Whispers’ by David Mastikosa on the program by Third Coast Percussion, Grammy-winning percussion quartet from Chicago.

Celia Swart (1994, NL) is a new music composer, saxophone player and visual artist. Growing up playing saxophone and piano, she found her love for composing.

Education Michael has a degree in English Literature from the State University of New York. Despite having no formal music education, he has an active international career in several aspects of the music business.

"Creativity is an unconscious act of insanity, in a burst of which the truth is born. No matter how beautiful or disgusting it may seem to people far from madness, its value is beyond doubt, both for the author and for those able to sense its invisible beauty. After all, gratitude for endless trials and suffering brings joy and blissful emptiness… Being shocked by music is about pain turning into beauty and getting under your skin, taking away your breath; about everything stopping to move. I want to be scratched inside by sound and experience the fleeting, invisible beauty." - Maxim Shalygin