With the inspiring and emotionally fulfilling last week’s performance in Novi Sad we’ve finally reached the end of our second year of existence.  Among this year’s highlights was a concert series with four thematically differentiated programs presented in our three main base cities of Novi Sad, Belgrade and Kragujevac. Moreover, our long term collaboration with Richard Barrett continued with world premieres of Tendril and Pauk, another two segments of a large scale composition “close-up”, scheduled to be completed in 2015. Our efforts to rescue the legacy of a brilliant yugoslav composer Ernö Kiraly from oblivion have continued with the generous help of his family members as well as the “Millenium Collection” in Bajot, Hungary which has loaned us the originally constructed instruments: zitherphone and tablophone, that were performed as a part of our live concert/installation “Intimni rituali” along with Horatiu Radulescu’s sound icons and a Carpathian wooden horn.  Another two long term projects that have begun in 2014 and are planned to continue over the following years are the complete recording of Italian composer Franco Donatoni’s works for solo instruments in collaboration with the Radio Belgrade; as well as the full-length performance/recording of Cornelius Cardew’s “The Great Learning”.

Ensemble Studio 6 is going on hiatus for the winter, in the meantime stay tuned for the audio and video highlights of 2014’s concerts that will be uploaded here and on our Youtube channel over the coming weeks.

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