Vito Žuraj
Year of birth, place
1979
Slovenia
Role at the ZKM
- Guest Artist
Institute / Department
- Institute for Music and Acoustics
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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