Donika Rudi

Donika Rudi (born 7 June 1982 in Pristina, is a Kosovar composer of mostly chamber, electroacoustic music and acousmatic music. Her compositions have been performed in Kosovo, Albania, France, Columbia, Switzerland, Portugal, Australia, Bulgaria, Serbia, Canada, Spain, Belgium etc.
Her compositions where aired on Radio Spain - UNDÆ! Radio, France Musique (at Christian Zanési radioshow), (Café Sonore), “Sonema Lab”, (Arte Eletroacústica).
She works as artistic director of ReMusica Festival - Prishtina International Contemporary Music Festival. Since 2010 she is the member of FEBEME - BEFEM (Fédération belge de musique électroacoustique) in Belgium and a member of CEC (Canadian Electroacoustic Community).
Education
She finished post-graduate composition studies at the Royal Conservatorium of Mons, Belgium, respectively the acousmatic music composition in the class of and Ingrid Drese. Rudi also studied composition with Mendi Mengjiqi at the University of Prishtina, Kosovo from 2000 until 2002. She then studied composition with Nicolas Bolens, Éric Gaudibert and Michaël Jarrell and electroacoustic music with Rainer Boesch, Émile Ellberger and Luis Naón at the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève, Switzerland from 2002 until 2006.
Works
Stage
*U ime Oca / In the Name of the Father - joint Austrian-Bosnian production, by the National Theater of Tuzla and The Alpha Group production company. The play is a documentary-dance piece directed by Darrel Toulon. World Premiere: National Theatre of Tuzla (BH), March 2019 ;Sarajevo War Theatre October 2019 ; Srebrenica October 2019
*Ode to Life acousmatic piece / sound installation in the frame of , organized by Teatri ODA, 2019
*Sarabande music and sound design for the documentary about the virtuoso guitarist Petrit Ceku; directed by Kaltrina Krasniqi, 2017
*Juliet No Romeo, music for the ballet; choreography by Darrel Toulon
*Cka mbine se pari kur kallet bota (music for the multimedia theatre play by Flutra Zymi) 2015
*“Tregimi per zoteriun e vogel” (incidental music, play by Blerta Rrustemi - Neziraj) - Multimedia Center,
2011
*Sytë e gjyshes - Grandmother's eyes (incidental music, play by Arif Demolli),youth actors, child actors, puppets, 2000;
*Life in Slow Motion (ballet in 7 scenes, choreography by Filibertt Tologo, scenario by Doruntina Basha), 2- track tape, 2007
Electroacoustic and Acousmatic
*“Ode to Life” acousmatic piece (supported by IN SITU platform, in the frame of the ACT project, co- funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union)
*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, 8 mixed voices, soprano ocarina, 2-track tape, 2008;
*Aura I (vocalise), soprano, mezzo-soprano, clarinet, 2 violins, 2 violas, 3 percussion, 2-track tape, 2009; World Premiere in International Festival “ReMusica” Kosovo.
*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 (after Frédéric Chopin), 2-track tape, 2010;
*The echoes of the Crying Earth, 2011; World Premiere “ElectroBelge” Panorama of electroacoustic music in Belgium
*Unspoken, 2-track tape, 2012;
*Emotion Machine, 2-track tape, 2012
*Within (Emotion Machine II), 2-track tape, 2012; World Premiere “ElectroBelge” Panorama of electroacoustic music in Belgium (supported by Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles)
*Ensueño 2013
*Voyage vers l’inconnu, 2014
*Lux Sit 2015
*In between (Lux sit) 2016
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
Piano
*"In the rain...", 2010
Multimedia
The Red Room, 2-/8-track tape, animation (video projection by Shpend Gashi), 2006

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