The first Multimod Festival for Performer-Composers was held in Geneva in 2016 under the auspices of the HEM. The second edition of the festival will take place in Belgrade, Serbia, and will be produced by the Guarnerius Institute. The basic premise of the festival is to present and examine the world of contemporary performer-composer activities in the context of the multiple modernities concept-a concept, which presents us with a large, international and multifaceted overview of modernity.
As much as the theoretical view of creativity today involves diverse cultural and aesthetic sources, it also involves diverse practices including improvisation, written-out composition and multimedia. The festival comprises performances, lectures, workshops and master classes designed for artists, students and scholars interested in the subject.
As special guests, we are presenting composer-performer, interdisciplinary artist, author and educator David Rosenboom, Catalan composer and guitarist Feliu Gasull , eclectic jazz artist Bruce Arnold from New York City, Israeli performer-composer from the Sephardic tradition Daniel Akiva, the Iranian composer-guitarist Golfam Khayam from Teheran. We will also present Belgrade-born composer-guitarist Dusan Bogdanovic, who lives in Geneva, in collaboration with two modern dancers, Alexandra Llorens and Nils O’Swald from France. We will also present a concert of young composer-performer students from Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Macedonia.
The Belgrade -based artists will include concert pianist Nadežda Kolundžija, viola soloist Dejan Mladjenovic, classical guitarists Vera Ogrizović, Marija Rašić, together with the guitar ensemble of the students from the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, opera singers Aneta Ilić, Nevena Djoković, composer-singer Draško Adžić, cellist Sandra Belić, flutist Stana Krstajić, percussionists Milan Milić and Milorad Balić, harpist Milana Zarić, and double bass performer Boban Stošić.
For the closing concert of the festival we present the Argentinian Tango Jazz Quartet teamed with the Belgrade Festival Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Bojan Sudjić.