INTERNATIONAL COMPOSITION MASTERCLASS
Wed 14 – Sat 17 October 2026
- Teacher: Mirela Ivičević (Croatia/Austria)
- Musicians from Ensemble Recherche (Germany)
- Adam Woodward, violin
- Åsa Åkerberg, cello
- Klaus Steffes-Holländer, piano
During the 22nd Uuden Musiikin Lokakuu – October of New Music in the City of Oulu, Finland, seven Active Students will be selected to attend an International Composition Masterclass by Ms. Mirela Ivičević.
The teaching languages are English, German and Croatian.
APPLY
via E-mail , by Mon 15 June 2026. Submit
- a short CV
- short letter of motivation (max 1000 characters)
- one score in pdf format
- one recording or video: as a link, not file
TUITION FEE 495 € INCLUDES
- Round-Table Sessions with Ms. Ivičević with the Students presenting their pieces
- two individual lessons (45 min) with Ms. Ivičević
- Workshop with the musicians of Ensemble Reserche
- Concert Performance of the piece by Ensemble Reserche musicians, recorded on video, published on UML YouTube Channel
- accommodation as homestay (no extra charge) or in a hotel (extra charge of 105 € per night)
- free admittance to all festival events
Students will compose a new piece, duration 3-5 minute.
The ensemble for the piece is violin, cello and piano.
The deadline is Mon 7 Sept 2026.
PASSIVE STUDENTS
If you wish to participate as a passive student, please contact the producer for information.
Mirela Ivičević – A Composer In the Liminal Space Between Sound and Meaning
Mirela Ivičević (b. 1980, Split, Croatia) Mirela is a composer whose work explores the subversive potential of sound. Her music reflects on the social and cultural meanings embedded in sound, recontextualizing a diverse range of sonic and media materials into new, unexpected forms of coexistence. Blending acoustic and electronic materials, echoes of popular culture, political themes, and elements of her multicultural Balkan heritage, she creates “sonic fictions” that flicker between the remembered and the imagined.
Ivičević studied composition and music theory in Zagreb with Željko Brkanović, media composition in Vienna with Klaus-Peter Sattler, and composition in Graz with Beat Furrer. She is a co-founder of Black Page Orchestra, an ensemble devoted to radical contemporary music, and serves as artistic director of the Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik festival in Bludenz, Austria. Her awards include the Erste Bank Composition Prize of Klangforum Wien, the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation Composers’ Prize, and the Belmont Prize (2024). In 2019, she was a fellow of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program. She lives and works in Vienna.
Ivičević has collaborated with ensembles and artists across disciplines; her body of work includes acoustic, electroacoustic, and intermedia compositions for line-ups from live solo sets to pieces for large orchestra, as well as sound installations, music for film and theatre, and three operas.
In 2024 Ilya Gringolts premiered her Violin Concerto with the Brussels Philharmonic and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Ilan Volkov.
A new orchestral work will be premiered in July 2026 with Ensemble Recherche and the Freiburg Philharmonic Orchestra under André de Ridder, supported by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation. This piece will also be performed by the Oulu Sinfonia at the Uuden Musiikin Lokakuu – October of New Music festival in Oulu, Finland, in October 2026.
