Dalibor Bukvić

Composer Dalibor Bukvić (b. 1968) graduated from the Department of Composition at the Academy of Music in Zagreb under the mentorship of Stanko Horvat in 1995. He received the French government’s scholarship for the Paris Conservatory (Department of Electro-Acoustics, class of Laurent Cuniot, 1996–1997). He attended the National Conservatory of Boulogne, in the class of Michel Zbar (1996–1998), and the IRCAM’s Summer Academy in Paris in 1997. He perfected his skills on the summer course in Darmstadt with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Luca Lombardi in 1996. From 2002 to 2008, he worked in Paris as a professor of music theory, piano, and improvisation and as an accompanist at several conservatories in Paris and at the Conservatories in Ivry-sur-Seine and Fontenay-aux-Roses. Since 2008, he has been living in Zagreb and working as a professor at the Academy of Music, University of Zagreb, lecturing theoretical and musical courses. He writes for solo instruments, chamber ensembles, choirs and orchestras, music for theatre, film, television, and contemporary dance. He has collaborated with the Zagreb Youth Theatre, the Croatian National Theatre in Osijek, the Zagreb dance group Gesta, the Amsterdam troop Griftheater (in collaboration, they have made Metafoe, a mime production), Paris Alchimistes, and San Francisco Dance Mission. His compositions have been performed by numerous Croatian and foreign artists and ensembles, among which are the Choir and Symphony Orchestra of the Croatian National Television, the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, the Ensemble Cantus, the Vocal Ensemble Brevis, the Croatian Chamber Orchestra, the Zagreb Soloists, violinist Goran Končar, bass-clarinettist Ratko Vojtek, organist Mario Penzar, the Brass Quintet Volga from Russia, and Dutch oboist Bart Schneeman. Moreover, his compositions have been performed at concerts and festivals in Croatia, Bosnia, and Herzegovina, Austria, Germany, France, Denmark, Spain, Portugal, Poland, Mexico, South Korea, and the United States. His compositions have been published by record labels Cantus, Croatia Records, Orfej-HRT, and Ganga Music Međugorje & Etiprint Zagreb.

He is a member of the Croatian Composers’ Society. He has received the Rector’s Award of the University of Zagreb (Ostinato and rondo for strings and Propheties for piano, 1992), the Stjepan Šulek Prize (Psalam for choir and orchestra, 1995), for Recits de l’autre monde (Tales from the Other World), in 2011, he received the Vjesnik Josip Štolcer Slavenski Prize, the Boris Papandopulo Prize of the Croatian Composers’ Society, and the Vladimir Nazor Prize in 2019.