Belma Bešlić-Gál Grants, Scholarships, Prizes - Belma Beslic-Gál

Belma Bešlić-Gál Grants, Scholarships, Prizes - Belma Beslic-Gál

Belma Bešlić-Gál
Born 1978 in Tuzla (BiH). Austrian composer, artist and pianist of Slovenian/Bosnian descent, living in
Vienna (Austria). First music studies (piano) with Planinka Jurisic-Atic in Tuzla. Piano studies at the Liszt
School of Music Weimar (Gerlinde Otto and Lazar Berman). Studies of composition and music theory at
the University of Arts in Graz (Bernhard Lang, Klaus Lang). Master classes in Darmstadt and Munich
(Brian Ferneyhough, Rebecca Saunders, Raphael Cendo, German Toro Perez and Wolfgang Rihm). CoCurator of the shut up and listen! Festival in Vienna (www.sp-ce.net).
Grants, Scholarships, Prizes (selection)
2013
Austrian State Scholarship for Composition 2014
2013
Composition Grant, Arts Division of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and
Culture
2012: 2012 Composition Grant, Cultural Department of the City of Salzburg
2012: Selected Composer, Project RISK TO FAIL, Theater Reutlingen Die Tonne, Germany
2012: Composition Grant, Arts Division of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and
Culture
2012: Composition Grant, Cultural Department of the City of Vienna
2012: World New Music Days 2013 - Selected Composer (representing Austria)
2011: Composition Grant, State of Salzburg, Austria
2011: I z S Kunst & Kulturpreis, Ingrid zu Solms Stiftung, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2011: Emerging Composers Award, Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture
2011: Composition Grant, SKE-Fonds/AustroMechana, Austria
2011: Artist-in-Residence, Female composers to Frankfurt International Scholarship,
Archiv Frau und Musik, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2008: Advancement Scholarship, University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (KUG)
Commissions, Performances, Festivals (selection)
Duo Soufflé (Vienna), Reutlingen Die Tonne (Reutlingen, DEU), Ensemble Reconsil (Wien), ICMC
(Ljubljana, SLO), OENM (Salzburg, AUT), szene instrumental (Graz), World New Music Days 2013
(Kosice-Bratislava-Wien), JazzWerkstatt (Wien), Matthias Schorn (Wiener Philharmoniker, AUT), Archiv
Frau und Musik (Frankfurt/Main, DEU), andere saite (Graz), Hessischer Rundfunk/ Hochschule für Musik
und Darstellende Kunst (Frankfurt/Main), Stift St. Peter (Salzburg), Festival Sláturtíð (Reykjavík), Neue
Musik St. Ruprecht (Wien), Sarajevski ratni teatar (Sarajevo, BiH), Narodno pozorište Sarajevo
(Sarajevo, BiH), Encuentro de Arte Sonoro Tsonami (Buenos Aires, ARG)…
Further information: www.belmabeslic-gal.eu