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Snežana Nešić studied composition, accordion and conducting at the Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine in Kyiv and the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media, and earned her doctorate at the Université de Montréal. She is Professor of Composition and Head of the Composition Department at Dr. Hoch’s Conservatory in Frankfurt. She has also taught at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, the University of Music and Theatre “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” Leipzig, and the Université de Montréal.
Snežana Nešić has received composition commissions from, among others, the Gewandhaus zu Leipzig, North German Broadcasting (NDR), Philharmonie Luxembourg, Ensemble contemporain de Montréal, Quatuor Quasar, Broken Frames Syndicate, Flex Ensemble, Hanover State Opera and Cologne Chamber Opera. In addition, her compositions have been premiered and performed by the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Thüringen Philharmonie, Talea Ensemble and Minguet Quartett, as well as at the Salzburg Biennale, Musik der Jahrhunderte Stuttgart and the BITEF International Theatre Festival, and by the opera company Chants Libres in Montréal.
As a composer, Snežana Nešić has won several awards, including the “Andrea Ceraso” Rome Award, the OUM Composition Prize in 2023, and first prizes at the Molinari Quartet’s International Composition Competition and the International Composition Competition of the Weimar Spring Days. She received a DAAD scholarship and was Composer in Residence at the German Academy in Rome (Casa Baldi), the Goethe House in Rome, the Wilhelm Kempff House in Positano, the German Study Center in Venice, the Bogliasco Center in Italy and in Montréal (at the invitation of Groupe Le Vivier), among others.
Snežana Nešić is the artistic director and conductor of ensemble ur.werk and has also directed ensemble Incontri and the Hindemith Ensemble. As an accordionist, she has also won first prizes at numerous international competitions (including the International Accordion Competition in Klingenthal and the International Accordion Prize of Castelfidardo) and performed as a soloist with numerous ensembles and orchestras, including the NDR Symphony Orchestra Hamburg and the Lower Saxony State Orchestra Hanover. As a performer and conductor, she has premiered and performed numerous works by other composers.
Until 2025, she served as President of the Northern Germany Regional Association of the German Composers‘ Association (DKV) and, from 2021 to 2024, as Artistic Director of the Emerging Composers Programme of Musik21 Niedersachsen.
Her recent works include the cycle of audiovisual installations The Artist is Not Present and an augmented reality opera for the Opéra de Montréal. She is currently working on a new music theatre project for the Slovenian Chamber Music Theatre (Slovensko komorno glasbeno gledališče), as well as new compositions for Ensemble Paramirabo.
Snežana Nešić has received composition commissions from, among others, the Gewandhaus zu Leipzig, North German Broadcasting (NDR), Philharmonie Luxembourg, Ensemble contemporain de Montréal, Quatuor Quasar, Broken Frames Syndicate, Flex Ensemble, Hanover State Opera and Cologne Chamber Opera. In addition, her compositions have been premiered and performed by the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Thüringen Philharmonie, Talea Ensemble and Minguet Quartett, as well as at the Salzburg Biennale, Musik der Jahrhunderte Stuttgart and the BITEF International Theatre Festival, and by the opera company Chants Libres in Montréal.
As a composer, Snežana Nešić has won several awards, including the “Andrea Ceraso” Rome Award, the OUM Composition Prize in 2023, and first prizes at the Molinari Quartet’s International Composition Competition and the International Composition Competition of the Weimar Spring Days. She received a DAAD scholarship and was Composer in Residence at the German Academy in Rome (Casa Baldi), the Goethe House in Rome, the Wilhelm Kempff House in Positano, the German Study Center in Venice, the Bogliasco Center in Italy and in Montréal (at the invitation of Groupe Le Vivier), among others.
Snežana Nešić is the artistic director and conductor of ensemble ur.werk and has also directed ensemble Incontri and the Hindemith Ensemble. As an accordionist, she has also won first prizes at numerous international competitions (including the International Accordion Competition in Klingenthal and the International Accordion Prize of Castelfidardo) and performed as a soloist with numerous ensembles and orchestras, including the NDR Symphony Orchestra Hamburg and the Lower Saxony State Orchestra Hanover. As a performer and conductor, she has premiered and performed numerous works by other composers.
Until 2025, she served as President of the Northern Germany Regional Association of the German Composers‘ Association (DKV) and, from 2021 to 2024, as Artistic Director of the Emerging Composers Programme of Musik21 Niedersachsen.
Her recent works include the cycle of audiovisual installations The Artist is Not Present and an augmented reality opera for the Opéra de Montréal. She is currently working on a new music theatre project for the Slovenian Chamber Music Theatre (Slovensko komorno glasbeno gledališče), as well as new compositions for Ensemble Paramirabo.