ANAM Set 2025 Composer: Work Title and Instrumentation to be announced.
This ANAM Set commission was generously supported by the Anthony and Sharon Lee Foundation
About the composer:
Eli Simić-Prošić (b. 1992) is a Serbian-Australian composer, pianist, writer and curator based in Berlin. He is interested in treating composition as a form of associative music-making which integrates numerous live aspects of performance – the sonic, physical, theatrical, programmatic – into hybridised experiences of living time shared between performer and audiences. His works have been played by performers and groups such as Halfsound Duo, Grace Macdonald, Franziska Salker, Bux Ensemble, Alex Raineri, Fidan Aghayeva-Edler, the Berliner Lautsprecherorchester, Plexus, the University of Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, Rubiks and ELISION, and have also been featured in numerous concerts from the University of Melbourne, the Akademie der Künste and the Universität der Künste Berlin.
Active in the Berlin music scene, Eli is part of numerous collectives and his recent creative projects include the experimental composition/event abounding music created for HfMT Hamburg’s Akademie Kontemporär 2021 along with CLING, a hybrid choreography-composition work co-created with Ariane Burghard, 2022’s recorder trio I miss this remembering written for Bux Ensemble and in 2023 the large-scale devised musiktheater work The ßpinning Шheel and Creatures of the self, a work created and performed as a part of Kollektiv Unruhe.
Completing his BMus (Honours) from the University of Melbourne in 2019, Eli is the recipient of the 2019 AE Floyd Memorial Scholarship as well as the 2020 Ad Infinitum Scholarship and is currently doing his master’s studies in composition at the Universität der Künste Berlin with Mathias Hinke and earlier with Daniel Ott. He has previously studied with Julian Yu, Elliott Gyger and Brenton Broadstock at the University of Melbourne and has had individual lessons with Chaya Czernowin.