Curriculum vitae
Bojana Šaljić Podešva was born in 1978 in Maribor, Slovenia. She completed her study of composition in the class of Marko Mihevc at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana. She attended a postgraduate study of electroacoustic composition in the class of Dieter Kaufmann at the Vienna Music University (Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Wien), where she also took courses with Bruno Liberda and Wolfgang Mitterer.
Her basic mean of expression is electroacoustic music, regarding fixed-recorded 2- or more channel compositions, as well as real-time treatment of instrumental or vocal sound and music installation. Another important domain of her work represents music in relation to contemporary visual and performing arts which led her into collaboration with artists from different art fields, among them Silvan Omerzu, Miran Zupanič, Boštjan Bugarič, Ann Adamović, Ulrich Kaufmann, Marko Cafnik. Her works were performed in Slovenia, Austria, France, Canada, Germany, Croatia, Great Brittany, Switzerland and elsewhere.
She won several Slovene composition prizes for concert works and scene music, as well as the 2nd prize at the International Gustav Mahler Composition Competition of the City of Klagenfurt (Austria) in 1998. In 2004 she presented her works at both International Rostrum of Composers (IRC) and International Rostrum of Electroacoustic Music (IREM), and she won an UNESCO-Aschberg residence bursary for staying at the International Institute for Electroacoustic Music of Bourges (IMEB, France). She was selected for Participation at International Academy for New Composition and Audio-Art “Avantgarde Tyrol 2005” (Austria) with the grant by society 'KulturKontakt Austria'.
In 2005 her electroacoustic work »Welcome to the Dooshaland« was awarded mention in the Trivium section of the 32. International Competition of Electroacoustic Music and Sonic Art in Bourges, France.
Currently she lives and composes in Ajdovščina, Slovenia.
