Donika Rudi is a Kosovar

Kosovo

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 composer of mostly chamber and electroacoustic works that she has performed in front of a variety of audiences throughout Europe

Europe

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Rudi studied composition with Mendi Mengjiqi at the University of Prishtina, Kosovo

Kosovo

Kosovo is a region in southeastern Europe. Part of the Ottoman Empire for more than five centuries, later the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija within Serbia...

 from 2000 until 2002. She then studied composition with Nicolas Bolens, Éric Gaudibert

Eric Gaudibert

Eric Gaudibert is a Swiss composer.He studied piano and composition in the conservatory of Lausanne particularely with Denise Bidal and Hans Haug, and later in Paris in the Ecole Normale de Musique with Alfred Cortot, Henri Dutilleux and Nadia Boulanger...

 and Michaël Jarrell

Michael Jarrell

Michael Jarrell is a Swiss composer. Born in Geneva, he studied at the Conservatoire there, and later with Klaus Huber in Freiburg.His works span many genres...

 and electroacoustic music with Rainer Boesch, Émile Ellberger and Luis Naón at the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève

Conservatoire de musique de Genève

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, Switzerland

Switzerland

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 from 2002 until 2006.

She currently works as director of the Electronic Music Center "Noise" and artistic director of Prishtina International Contemporary Music Festival ReMusica.

Her music has been performed in Albania

Albania

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, Belgium

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, France

France

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, Germany

Germany

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, Italy

Italy

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, Kosovo, and Switzerland.

Stage

• Sytë e gjyshes (Grandmother's eyes) - (incidental music, play by Arif Demolli / UNICEF), 2000;
• Contemporary Ballet "Life in Slow Motion" premiered at the National Theatre of Kosovo by the Kosovo troupe of ballet and soloists Filibertt Tologo & Noemi Alberganti (ballet in 7 scenes, choreography by Filibertt Tologo, scenario by Doruntina Basha), 2-track tape, 2007

Chamber music

• String Quartet, 'Sauts', 2002;
• "B", soprano, double bass, piano, accordion, 2003;
• Move (vocalise), mezzo-soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, piano, 2006;
• Le rire perdu, 3 clarinets, 2007;
• First Step, 4 percussion, 2008
  • "Aura I" (vocalise), soprano, mezzo-soprano, clarinet, 2 violins, 2 violas, 3 percussion, 2-track tape, 2009
  • "Aura II" 1 solo violin, mixed choir ( SATB), string orchestra, 1 piano, 1 percussion and tape (text: Robert Lax) 2010;
• "9" amplificated trombone and tape, 2010

Choral

• Epitaf (text by Eqrem Basha), mixed chorus, 2003;
• Why? (vocalise), 12 sopranos, 12 altos, 2006

Electroacoustic

• Colors (after Joan Miró), cello, 2-track tape, 2004;
• Image (text by Eqrem Basha), flute, 2-track tape, 2005;
• Naissance, 2-/8-track tape, 2006;
• Kabatronic, viola, 2-track tape, 2007;
• Au-delà du rêve, mixed chorus, soprano ocarina, 2-track tape, 2008;
• Defiance, 2-track tape, 2009;
• Grumble, 2-track tape, 2009;
• Disturbia, 2-track tape, 2009;
• Autumn, viola, 2-track tape, 2009;
• Sophie's world, 2-track tape, 2010;
• Nuit Bleue, 2-track tape ( inspired by Frederic Chopin prelude in e-mol), 2010;

External links

• Prishtina International Contemporary Music Festival
• University of Prishtina Faculty of Arts