Vito Žuraj

Year of birth, place
1979, Maribor, Slovenia
lives and works in
Karlsruhe und Fram, Slovenia
Role at the ZKM
Guest Artist
Institute / Department
Institute for Music and Acoustics
At the ZKM

    September - Oktober 2014

Biography

Vito Žuraj studied composition in Ljubljana, Dresden, and with Wolfgang Rihm at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe, where he also completed a Masters of Arts in the field of music informatics. Among his fields of activity are collaborations with the New York Philharmonic, RSO Stuttgart, hr-Sinfonieorchester, Ensemble Modern, Klangforum Wien, Experimentalstudio des SWR and the RIAS Chamber Choir. His works have been performed, among others, at various Salzburg Festivals, Ultraschall Berlin, and Takefu Festival Japan. He has received numerous prizes for composition and is currently scholarship holder of the Deutsche Akademie Villa Massimo in Rome.

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