Yale Opera Studies Working Group presents:
A Conversation with Ana Sokolović
Tues. April 30 at 5:15PM, Department of Music, SKL (Stoekel Hall) R. 210 or on Zoom
Composer Ana Sokolović joins us via Zoom for a presentation and conversation about opera, technology, and visual media. The winner of the 2023 Excellence in Digital Opera award from Opera America for the Boston Lyric Opera recording of her opera Svadba will present on her compositional practice and philosophy of technology and visual media before an open question period with participants. Snacks will be provided.
A key figure in contemporary music, composer Ana Sokolović was born in Belgrade, Serbia and is based in Montreal since 1992. With a background in the rhythmic universe of Balkan folklore, her music is coloured with playful images and inspired by differing artistic disciplines. Her vast repertoire is regularly performed both in Canada and internationally. Fourth most performed female opera composer in the world in the last decade (according to Operabase), Sokolović’s hears her works performed throughout Europe and North America. Her opera, Svadba, which “seems to invent a universal phonetics of the human heart” (Le Monde), has been performed more than fifty times. Her career as a composer has been marked by numerous awards and recognitions, including two consecutive JUNOs in the category of “Classical Composition of the Year”. Sokolović’s works have been recorded on more than twenty discs. In 2020, she joined the prestigious publishing house Boosey & Hawkes. The following year, she was appointed composer-in-residence at the Montreal Symphony Orchestra for three seasons. In 2022, Ana Sokolović was awarded the first Canada Research Chair in Opera Creation at l’Université de Montréal where she is also a professor of composition.